Is there somewhere that you would not return to? And why?

[Mothership4two]

Just commented on a post asking for places you would go back to and why. Thought it would be interesting to find out places you would never go back and why not. Not trying to cause offence! I'm going to get flamed arent I?

Mine are:

Amsterdam. Just found it a big unfriendly city. Away from canals, the buildings are pretty ugly. Staff in shops/restaurants/etc had a couldnt care less attitude. Didn't help that it was a really cold few days and we werent interested in getting 'cake' from cafes or looking at the red light district. I find Dutch people usually lovely.

Dublin: found it drab and old-fashioned. People lovely though and good pubs

Florence: I love Italy but Florence is just a working city with islands of lovely buildings imo. We'd just come from Venice and it didn't compare.

North Wales: beautiful but unfriendly. Everywhere we went people switched from English to Welsh when they heard our English accents including a staff member in a tourist info office! We knew it happened but it just makes you feel meh. The fact if rained every single day didnt put it in a good light for us. Have visited many parts of the rest of Wales, all good. My lovely fil is from North Wales and my lovely sil and dn is also Welsh.

Few places I wouldn't go back to because I didn't like them but there are so many wonderful places to visit and so few holidays so sometimes that's why. The only place I have felt massively uncomfortable was Tangier. But I didn't feel like that in other parts of Morocco. I've never felt the urge to visit Germany or the Maldives or the Seychelles

Cornwall - Nasty pebbledash buildings everywhere, nightmare roads and swamped, overcrowded 'hotspots'.
North Wales - especially Anglesey - just grim.
Budapest - Dirty, overcrowded and dodgy as F.

Nice - that long, boring line of hotels, and the rest of the town is so built up. Ditto Monaco. Ditto the Costa del Sol, which is also too bloody hot.

Restaurant staff had barely any concept of speaking English so when ordering on many occasions in different places we didn't receive what we had ordered

@BearRabbitPants You expect waiters in Bulgaria to speak English? why? Do waiters n the UK speak Bulgarian? Surely in another country you make the effort to speak that language. And if you can't, then use a phrase book or Google Translate.

I would never go to Wales on holiday again- lovely country but the rain! It rained every day bar one on our summer holiday a few years ago.

I wouldn't go back to Disney resort in Florida
I wouldn't pay masses of money to go to San Francisco again but it'd be ok for a day
Niagara Falls Canada side - yes the Falls are awesome but the town not so. I think Ripley's Believe it Or Not put me off

Benidorm--went on a girls trip for a laugh and it was worse than I thought possible. So rough and nowhere nice to eat and go for drinks. Horrible place

Venice. Beautiful, beautiful city but the amount of tourists makes it unbearable and tbh made me feel really guilty being there. Perhaps I would go back if they ban cruises but not in the mean time.

Centre Parks- like holidaying I’m a leisure centre but paying hundreds of pounds for the privilege.
Brussels- the only place on a round the world trip where we were robbed.
The south of France (Nice, Cannes etc) expensive, crowded and generally a bad vibe.
Pretty much everywhere else I’ve been to, I would return to!

Venice in summer too busy, ditto Paris. (Paris in the winter is lovely)

Crete in an October half term. Half the island appeared to be closed for the winter. Everywhere else I'd cheerfully go back to.

London - moved out 5 years ago. Best decision I have every made!

Wales. Rain. Damp, smelly, overpriced cottage. Mediocre overpriced tourist trap experiences. Grim.

As a tourist, Paris. It felt really unwelcoming and eye wateringly expensive. I lived and worked there for years and loved it. DC enjoyed it but I felt exhausted and longed for London with its huge parks, free galleries and museums and cheap cafes to relax in. Felt a bit the same in NYC. I expected to adore it but we just marched up and down between glass canyons for a week. Where's the variety?

Barcelona - didn't appreciate the signs in Las Ramblas telling the English to go home so will take them at their word.

Dominican Republic - have never been so ill in our lives.

Love London and Amsterdam though

North Wales - especially Anglesey - just grim

Just horses for courses all this isn’t it? Anglesey is our go to place in the UK when we need a bit of time out. The beaches are beautiful, scenery can be stunning, huge selection of places to eat, loads of outdoorsy things to do as activities to try and we've always found the locals to be friendly. Granted when the weather is shit, it doesn’t show the place in the best light but I don’t know why you’d describe it as grim.

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Venice, dirty and overly expensive
Shocked at the graffiti everywhere that no one seemed bothered about removing - the writing on the Rialto bridge did it for me

Sydney - found people quite rude, Brisbane was a bit meh and there are far nicer cities in Australia

Dominican Republic - armed guards everywhere, general feeling of being unsafe

Beijing - the pollution! Xian was good though

Loved New Zealand, Japan, Hawaii and the Maldives
(& had a lovely time in North Wales last month!)

@cariad82 I loved Naples, we went to a few places in Italy and it was our favourite stop, we thought the vibe was amazing. We did go during their holiday festivities though, so we joined the locals in a square one evening having a drink and DS played football with other boys. I found the people the most friendly there and never felt unsafe. It makes me a bit sad you experienced such a different place 😔

Madeira. Just found it dull and over commercialised. Couldn’t understand the fuss about it.
Zante hated it. Full of tattooed Brits and English breakfasts.
Cyprus had an awful holiday there with a baby who wouldn’t sleep and just found it underwhelming.
Wales never had a good holiday there. It rains all the time and I found it totally depressing .
Corfu... absolutely ruined by tourism
Venice beautiful but couldn’t move (literally) for tourists with selfie sticks who were so busy taking photos they weren’t looking at the place
Properly. Also impossible to get a decent meal anywhere at a reasonable price.

Crete. That's a dump.
@LenoVintura - are you syaing this because you love it and hope to keep the world away? Can't believe this. Samaria Gorge is just stunning. And we had so many gorgeous days pottering around unspoiled tiny beaches, swimming and walking then eating in cafes over looking the sea. Gorgeous place. I want to take DC there. But we went years ago. Hope it's not spoiled now.

Melbourne.
Sydney.
Pretty much all the 'popular' and highly populated cities of Australia.

NYC because it is on a grid you walk a wee bit, wait whilst very noisy traffic passes, then walk, then traffic. It was hottish and the air was dusty.
Central park was big with trees. We are a bit spoilt in the UK with our milder climate.
And someone else's history is not as interesting as your own, much talk of which big 19th C entrepreneur donated how much to build what etc
And everyone talks v loud in restaurants and bars despite being sober and sitting 2 feet away.

Barcelona. I’m glad I went but I don’t ever feel like I would want to go back. It was just very underwhelming. Everywhere else I’ve been I feel I might like to return to someday.
As for the comments about North Wales, I’ve always found the people and area very welcoming.

I don't think I'd go back to San Francisco. I was shocked and upset at the level of homelessness 20 years ago and have been told by other friends who are frequent visitors that it has got markedly worse since then.

Paris. Both DH and I had separately been to Paris for a day or two when we were teenagers and both of us loved it. So we decided to go for one of our first holidays together. We did another European city first and then moved on to Paris and it was just horrible. Incredibly dirty compared to the other European city. There were an awful lot of homeless people, pretty much on every street corner, armed police everywhere. My handbag at the time had a zip on the outside (nothing in it) and that was unzipped several times without me realising by pickpockets. When we realised how often I was being targeted by pickpockets, we transferred all the euros to DHs wallet and he walked with his hand in his pocket constantly, the constant vigilance was exhausting.

Cuba - DH and I went for our honeymoon and it was amazing. The culture, the people. The food is crap but we knew that going so it wasn’t an issue. The problem is that by the time we’ve saved to go back there, the country will changed and modernised. We saw it happening when we were there and it was fascinating. It’ll be too different and it might be just as good or it might not compare so we’ve decided we aren’t going to take the risk and just leave Cuba as those memories we have.

I wouldn't go back to Marrakech- we were hassled and sworn at in the market. Lots of locals trying to scam us. Just felt like constant arguments wherever we went. Being stared at despite being covered up. I really didn't feel safe at all. Wouldn't recommend it.

Cannes - just a bit nothing and there were used needles all over the beach.

I used to work there for nearly a month each year. It’s a very bizarre place. The beach, the croissete then a street of designer shops and high end hotels. Then a street behind with high street shops and cheaper hotels, then behind that just your average French town. The old town is lovely though, and it’s great during a festival.