To ask which country you would not visit again and why?

[travelcat]

I love hearing about travel experiences and am interested in knowing about places you have visited that you wouldn't go back to.

AIBU to ask which country you'd avoid in the future and what specifically made your experience less enjoyable? Was it due to culture, safety, or something else?

Morocco specifically Marrakech. Scariest taxi rides I’ve ever had

And that is completely unacceptable in any country, I am sad that it happened in mine.

Ummm….cape verde? Went years ago when package tours were taking off and had a lovely time on a press trip, fantastic people, great music… but felt very much like I’d seen it after I’d been once.

Germany. Had the worst holiday of my life in Berlin with a friend who was just horrifically awful to me the whole
time we were there. Not the country’s fault, but don’t feel like I can get past just how awful a time I had.

Probably wouldn’t travel to some parts of Spain at the mo- I spent a lot of time there backpacking off the beaten track in my younger years, as well as it being my go-to for minibreaks/ summer hols - not because I don’t want to, but because I can see how very (understandably) upset locals are in some areas at over tourism, and I don’t want to contribute to that. Similarly bits of Italy and France. I live in a tourist area, and I have a taste of what they’re faced with. It’s not great.

But contrary to many on here, would go back to Morocco in a heart beat. Such a magical country.

Hi, this thread is supposed to be about travel experiences. Maybe start a new thread for your weird rant?

In addition to what I said about not liking some places, there are definitely places where I feel I've seen & done what there is to see & do as a tourist, and whilst I wouldn't mind visiting them again, or even potentially living there, if the right opportunity arose, I wouldn't voluntarily look into them as holiday destinations again. I'd prefer to try somewhere new. But that's horses for courses, I know some people who like to return to the same place every summer.

I'm not talking about whole countries, but islands, cities, and regions where I feel I've explored what they have to offer and it's time to move on.

I echo this absolutely!

San Francisco

Egypt/Red Sea - but only becasue of the shark attacks and the way they are encouraged.

Southern Nova Scotia. Halifax is alright but Yarmouth was a dump. It was impossible to get around and lots of people were really unfriendly.

Jordan is somewhere I'd like to go in the future. Has anyone had any negative experiences there?

No, only have violent mobs attack your place of refuge if you're an asylum seeker.

While we had a nice time in Belgium I can easily see how you might have the opposite

scruffy, rude people, generally underwhelming

That’s awful. I’m so sorry.

I agree. I think that you should stay at home. nods

Tunisia for me, it was like I'd paix to be sexually harassed for a week. Horrible. Then I can't get those awful shootings out of my head, I remember a woman who lost several family members.

There are no words...

Wales is stunningly beautiful imo.
It does rain a lot and I would never go into a small village pub with my English accent.

In Caernarfon my dil heard two Welsh women discussing her in a derogatory manner. She had been speaking English to my dgc who was very young and didn’t know much Welsh, he’s fluent now.
Anyway, ddil turned round and told them in Welsh not to be so rude.

Came on to say Tunisia, not surprised to see others got there first. I found it very scary as a woman with men behaving in a very predatory way and being hassled all the time in markets etc was super stressful. We got followed by a man who was pretending to know our driver at one stage. Never again.

Any country that requires a plane flight to visit. I’m looking forward to more overnight trains to visit the continent.

I probably will have to go back as we have relatives there but Australia. I’ve been three times now and found the undercurrent of racism and sexism to be really unpleasant. Combined with the fact that the people who live there / moved there seem to think it’s really superior to anywhere else in the world which confuses me greatly.

I lived in a couple of African countries for a few years in my 20s/30s and then travelled to India, and even comparing tourist places to other tourist places I got nothing like the hassle in Africa vs India. I've travelled on my own in Africa including local buses/bush taxis, and I was with a friend in India who was living locally. I still hated India for that, and I'm sure I'd find North Africa/Middle East similar.

Egypt. It was a long time ago, and my first time in an Islamic country - I was vey uncomfortable not to see women in any kind of public role ie in shops, hotel, tourist attractions, it was just men, even as attendants in women's toilets. Constant harassment from men. Also I got extremely ill.
And in Bali (which was lovely), I had a man approach me in a market and try to negotiate sex for money and I genuinely had no idea if he proposing to pay me or charge me, but I didn't hang around to find out.

Middle East (UAE). I went with my young son who was terrified of the women wearing metal masks over their hijabs. I am not sure what those are called actually, but he was haunted by them. I was haunted by the fact that they were walking a few metres behind their husbands always - carrying bags and small children. Just chattel. I then decided that I would never return to that part of the world. I have travelled all over the world but it was horrifying - and those are the more liberal parts!

Morocco. Never again.