12 You-Mustn't-Go-Theres, rather amusing

[suzywong]

Crap places not to visit

I haven't been to any of those places (well, I've been to Blackpool but not for the illuminations). Is that good or bad?

i am soooo glad that i have finally found other people who didnt like the eden project. DH and i were in cornwall for our honeymoon and we went there for a day and i found it tedious but then i am a mass murdered when it comes to plants

I love Eden! So do the kids.

Not done london Eye. I studied archaeology so I visited Stonehenge quite q few times - find it facinating still but I do agree that it seems tiny in reality - and it's not the same since it's been 'done up'. Avebury is better IMO.

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We went to Hampton Court recently and had great afternoon - best bit was the working kitchens. That said, Zoe Williams' line, "The rooms aren't much more impressive than places like Cliveden where you can actually stay, and call reception, and get people to bring you booze" did make me giggle.

great list and definitely agree about Madam Taussauds.

I quite liked the Blackpool illuminations but unless I lived within 100 miles of the place, would not go out of my way to visit it, though suspect my kids would like it - but only for a couple of hours.

I always suspected the London Eye was not so thrilling - unless you go at certain times (great vantage spot for fireworks on the Thames etc).

Foxinsocks, I went to Hampton Court a few weeks ago and didn't pay to get into the gardens - I just went in through the gate from the river and had tea in the lovely tea rooms - maybe its just bits of the gardens you have to pay to get into?

Interesting this, my dd when she was 6 decided that she wanted to go on the London eye. It was to be her holiday treat. She absoluetly loved it - as did dd2 who was 4. She saw (and remembers 18 months on) buckingham palace, westminster, st pauls etc. And it gave her a list of places she wanted to vivit.

We have a 'thing' that my kids get to go to London once in the holidays for a day out, and they can choose where they go!

Open topped bus has been another HUGE sucess, loved that too. They now really want to visit buckingham palace and st pauls, and all the churches in the rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons'!!

I am trying to work out a route for that one

Eden was dull and pricey, Stonehenge is a let down due to the fences, best art gallery for me is National Gallery with Trafalgar Square. Free and good paintings, nice loos and good staff

Used to love Stonehenge when i was little, but then as people said here that was in the olden times when you could climb all over it and the car park was a field and IT WAS FREE at certain times of the year. Would love to go to the Eden Project. But I love gardens. My uncle who lives locally gets a cheap price season ticket. London Eye, my ds's want to go on that next time we get to London. Hampton Court used to be great - especially the Maze. Living now in Colorado thought we're going more into the Wildnerness approach there's so much free here or very cheap I guess I will always balk at London prices ditto anything that's run by the Madame Tussauds people like Warwick Castle. Good tip for Midlands Mums - Sea Life in Birmingham. Great day out for the kids - we loved it.