Place(s) you would never go back to?

Cool Cool

Can you also tell why?

(don't know if this type of thread has been posted before or not, so delete it if you'd like)

The Sidewards Man

A area bashing thread this is a first.

Cool Cool

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

A area bashing thread this is a first.

really? that is shocking! :P I mean in terms of safety and blah (you know the things that you'd never see on a brochure)

Speedwell

Area bashing? When I saw the title it made me think of every restaurant, shop, and church I swore I would never darken the door of again.

Cool Cool

Speedwell wrote: »

Area bashing? When I saw the title it made me think of every restaurant, shop, and church I swore I would never darken the door of again.

I now think I should have used the word city or country...oops

LeinsterDub

The search function?

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057192922/1/#post90000761

Arsemageddon

Swansea - calling it a sh1thole makes it sound to grandiose

Speedwell

Johannesburg. I went there on a week-long business trip in which I was the trainer. I thought I got food poisoning from the miserable food in the miserable hotel the first night. Turned out I had actually come down with the galloping flu/gastrointestinal disaster that was killing children that month all over town. The office manager pulled some money out of petty cash and took me to a miserably backward GP office in a tiny storefront office. Then I couldn't cancel my classes/extend my trip so I had to teach anyway while sweating and shaking and excusing myself to the loo twice an hour. During that week, I witnessed some amazingly casual racism and plain old high-handed classist entitlement. I utterly failed to pronounce the click-and-pop-ridden Xhosa name of the chief engineer and he got upset. I don't think I actually ate any food that week until I literally got to the airport. I liked the ostrich carpaccio I had for my pre-flight lunch. But I would not go back to Jo'burg to have it.

Shint0

I posted in a thread about Manchester a few days ago. Absolutely horrible dive. Feel like you would get a stabbin' for just crossing the street and that's just in broad daylight. Didn't stick around long enough to experience the nightlife. Just got the hell out of it after one day and went elsewhere.

Deathwish4

Paris. Brussels. London. Istanbul. Cork.

Shint0

Shint0 wrote: »

I posted in a thread about Manchester a few days ago. Absolutely horrible dive. Feel like you would get a stabbin' for just crossing the street and that's just in broad daylight. Didn't stick around long enough to experience the nightlife. Just got the hell out of it after one day and went elsewhere.

You should've stayed, great city!!

bodhrandude

Ach, I canna be bothered, oh wait a minute, Tollcross in Glasgow you either get a taxi through it or you run like fcuk!

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Brussels. Rotten kip.

PARlance

Agadir, Morocco.
A beach that you could never fully relax on, the missus was constantly creeped out by creeps, very little in the form of entertainment in the evenings.

We just chilled in the confines of the hotel for the most part. Day trips etc were very welcome. Nice country but won't be venturing back to Agadir any time soon.

Arghus

Knock.

Even The Virgin Mother didn't stick around.

Att vara en hest

The butter museum in Cork

the evasion_kid

Thailand...it's changed man

Your Face

Slovakia.

You all know why.

Ruu

The magic road.

K-9

Westport Zoo. (may be closed now unsurprisingly)

Overpriced farm and play zone basically.

Atlantic Dawn

Paris, London, both ****holes.

Shield

School.

It's in my restraining order.

pappyodaniel

Arsemageddon wrote: »

Swansea - calling it a sh1thole makes it sound to grandiose

A pretty, sh1tty City.

RedemptionZ

I predict someone to mention Dublin 4. Maybe a reference to bankers too.

I second Swansea.

RedemptionZ

Shint0 wrote: »

I posted in a thread about Manchester a few days ago. Absolutely horrible dive. Feel like you would get a stabbin' for just crossing the street and that's just in broad daylight. Didn't stick around long enough to experience the nightlife. Just got the hell out of it after one day and went elsewhere.

It's a kip but it's not that bad! I was staying in what seemed to be the 'council estate' district and didn't get any trouble. Sure there was a lot of lads in matching tracksuits but same general rule as in Dublin don't go looking for trouble and you won't get it. It looks **** though and the area I was in was really run down, although as I said it seems like it was in a poor enough area of the city.

hefferboi

D4

Full of banker ****

RedemptionZ

hefferboi wrote: »

D4

Full of banker ****

Gangsters in suits. Should be behind bars Joe!

Esel

Haven't been there yet, but Prison here, on the boards.

That place that freaked me out. It's closed now anyway.

Shint0

bubblypop wrote: »

You should've stayed, great city!!

I clearly went on a bad day which must not have been representative of the other 364. My bad.

gramar

Shint0 wrote: »

I posted in a thread about Manchester a few days ago. Absolutely horrible dive. Feel like you would get a stabbin' for just crossing the street and that's just in broad daylight. Didn't stick around long enough to experience the nightlife. Just got the hell out of it after one day and went elsewhere.

That's Moss Side for you.

My mum's womb

stimpson

Arsemageddon wrote: »

Swansea - calling it a sh1thole makes it sound to grandiose

My lasting memory of Swansea was a nightclub that had a KFC in it.

OldMrBrennan83

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Geneva, crazily expensive and boring particularly at night.

d2ww

Could we not just copy and paste the last thread on this exact same topic?

ohnonotgmail

PARlance wrote: »

Agadir, Morocco.
A beach that you could never fully relax on, the missus was constantly creeped out by creeps, very little in the form of entertainment in the evenings.

We just chilled in the confines of the hotel for the most part. Day trips etc were very welcome. Nice country but won't be venturing back to Agadir any time soon.

Agreed , a total kip. the haze in the morning was terrible as well. you couldnt even see the sun until the afternoon. the best part of that trip was the 3 days we spent in Marrakesh.

MarcoAntonio23

Minsk Belarus, literally a corrupt police state.

Birneybau

Cool Cool wrote: »

Can you also tell why?

(don't know if this type of thread has been posted before or not, so delete it if you'd like)

Is this lazy journalism?

Olishi4

PARlance wrote: »

Agadir, Morocco.
A beach that you could never fully relax on, the missus was constantly creeped out by creeps, very little in the form of entertainment in the evenings.

We just chilled in the confines of the hotel for the most part. Day trips etc were very welcome. Nice country but won't be venturing back to Agadir any time soon.

Went there a few years ago and it wasn't great. We mainly stayed in the hotel resort because it was hard to find your way around.

Two women in their forties were holidaying together. We were only in our mid twenties but they would sometimes have a chat at the pool and once or twice we had a drink with them at the bar. They were a bit like those two from Ab Fab. Always arguing amongst themselfs, drunk and smelled of cheap perfume. Anyway they were alright and sometimes funny but could be a bit annoying too.

When getting the plane, one of them held it up for ages because she was drunk and forgot to change her Dirham money before checking in so the money was worthless outside the country and she was freaking out which pissed off all the passengers.

Anyway forgot all about them, then six months later, around Christmas time, my husband rings me from work saying that one of them arrived at his job reception at about 10 in the morning asking for him and she was off her face and falling around the place. She said that she was out that way and remembered him saying in conversation that he worked there and thought he might want to go for a drink. Ha! He was going mad. He asked her if she was joking and told her to go home and had no interest in going for a drink.

One lad that he worked with who doesn't have the best of luck with the ladies told her that he'd go for a drink with her at lunch time but she must have headed home because she stood him up

Red King

Brussels.

I spent a night there in 2003. Ran out of the place. A depressing grey ****hole of a place. I don't think I interacting with a single Belgian the whole time I was there, it was all Turks everywhere I went.

harry Bailey esq

Brussels could do with a lick of paint, especially around gar du nord.Very sketchy.

The King of Moo

I honestly can't fathom people saying they'd never go back to Paris.
The only reason I can think they might say that is because they booked a cheap hotel way out in the outskirts and stayed in the area looking for pubs.

The city is absolutely beautiful, with incredible palaces, museums, monuments and cathedrals all over the place, and the people are very friendly if you make the slightest effort to speak French.

The food and drink's not the worst either.

lee_baby_simms

Kilrush, Co Clare. Hell on tits.

MarcoAntonio23

The King of Moo wrote: »

I honestly can't fathom people saying they'd never go back to Paris.
The only reason I can think they might say that is because they booked a cheap hotel way out in the outskirts and stayed in the area looking for pubs.

The city is absolutely beautiful, with incredible palaces, museums, monuments and cathedrals all over the place, and the people are very friendly if you make the slightest effort to speak French.

The food and drink's not the worst either.

It helps to have a penchant for dog-****.

uch

Barcellona, smelly Kip

Radharc na Sleibhte

Salou and Miami.
Two kips I felt uneasy and unsafe in.

waraf

Glasgow. An absolute ****hole occupied exclusively at night by drunken violent thugs

bnt

The King of Moo wrote: »

I honestly can't fathom people saying they'd never go back to Paris.
The only reason I can think they might say that is because they booked a cheap hotel way out in the outskirts and stayed in the area looking for pubs.

The city is absolutely beautiful, with incredible palaces, museums, monuments and cathedrals all over the place, and the people are very friendly if you make the slightest effort to speak French.

The food and drink's not the worst either.

You must have gotten lucky with the people you met, because while the city is beautiful, the people are the reason I won't go back on my own dime. (If someone else wants to pay for it, I'll muddle through.) I've been to several other parts of France since then, the people were more normal.

As I said on the other thread: Bangalore, and (by extension) anywhere else in India. I could hardly see Bangalore itself for the sheer crush of humanity.

Pinch Flat

Red King wrote: »

it was all Turks everywhere I went.

How did you know they were Turkish? I was in Brussels about 10 years ago. I arrived there by Euro Star from Waterloo, the areas around the Gare is not that pleasant. We spent a few days there and although it's not the most exciting city on earth, but we still had a pleasant few days. The beer is to die for an we enjoyed the Belgian food - I speak a bit of French, so it helped.

Corvo

The King of Moo wrote: »

I honestly can't fathom people saying they'd never go back to Paris.
The only reason I can think they might say that is because they booked a cheap hotel way out in the outskirts and stayed in the area looking for pubs.

The city is absolutely beautiful, with incredible palaces, museums, monuments and cathedrals all over the place, and the people are very friendly if you make the slightest effort to speak French.

The food and drink's not the worst either.

In total agreement with you here, went a few years back with the now ex-girlfriend. Absolutely loved the place. Don't have a bad thing to say.

endabob1

Tunisia, probably the one place I would never go back to. Found it unfriendly and ugly and completely based on screwing as much from tourists as they could while ignoring the culture that we actually came to experience.

People saying Paris, Barcelona, even Brussels I find bizarre, yes these are big cities with areas to avoid, but in general as a tourist you will find fantastic places to see, eat and enjoy in all 3; Barcelona in particular is one of my favourite cities in the world, hard to beat an afternoon at a nice tapas bar watching the world go by drinking sangria and eating delicious titbits