What is the biggest city you have been to but never stayed in overnight?

its_steve116 · 11-04-2026 04:09PM #1

For me it's probably Budapest. I've also been to Leeds, Malmo, Venice, Helsinki, Naples, and Valladolid without staying the night.

Domestically, the biggest for me would be Limerick.

One eyed Jack · 11-04-2026 04:17PM

Galway 🤔

Oh wait no. Is Kilkenny a city? 🤨

Either of those two anyways.

SuperBowserWorld · 11-04-2026 04:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124384350#Comment_124384350

Kilkenny isn't ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities%2C_boroughs_and_towns_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland

Quantum Erasure · 11-04-2026 04:26PM

London?

ImAHappyCamper · 11-04-2026 04:27PM

Stockholm. I lived about half an hour north of it but I used to go in every so often for shopping/socializing. Never stayed there overnight though.

11-04-2026 04:28PM

London.

adaminho · 11-04-2026 04:29PM

San Francisco, Berlin and Barcelona were all day trips whilst visiting elsewhere.

BagofWeed · 11-04-2026 04:36PM

New York. I'm in Köln a lot but stay over further east.

Archeron · 11-04-2026 04:54PM

Birmingham. Didn't get to stay over but did enjoy dinner around the canal area.

Spaghetti junction was certainly an experience in a small van for a novice driver.

SuperBowserWorld · 11-04-2026 05:03PM

Milan when Ryanair cancelled the flight from Bergamo.

thomil · 11-04-2026 05:05PM

Amsterdam. Not in any rush to go back if I'm honest. The city just doesn't do it for me.

Could also be Stuttgart, but I never left the train station there, so I'm not sure if that counts…

Tippman24 · 11-04-2026 05:11PM

Palermo in Sicily. I went to 1990 World Cup and went to irelands matches in the city. We were staying near Catania so after each match, it was back to the bus.

Jakey Rolling · 11-04-2026 05:11PM

Passed through many cities en route to the port to join a vessel. If you don't count spending a night alongside before sailing, then Mumbai probably the largest of those (or Bombay as it was at the time)

StevenToast · 11-04-2026 05:20PM

I have a good one.

Cairo....i flew in.....had a 12 hour stopover...paid a taxi driver 100 pounds to drive me around for the day...did all the pyramids, sphinx, museum, had a camel ride etc..back to the airport......flew on then to South Africa!

Box ticked, i will never return!

midlander12 · 11-04-2026 05:23PM

Amsterdam and Brussels. Went on a day trip to the former while staying elsewhere in Holland, and spent a few hours walking around Brussels before flying home (I'd stayed in Ghent which is a lovely city, can't remember anything much about Brussels TBH).

its_steve116 · 11-04-2026 05:39PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124384363#Comment_124384363

Kilkenny is a ceremonial city.

its_steve116 · 11-04-2026 05:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058436983/what-is-the-biggest-city-you-have-been-to-but-never-stayed-in-overnight

Budapest/Bratislava - while staying in Vienna
Leeds - while staying in Sheffield/Newcastle
Malmo - while staying in Copenhagen
Venice - while staying in Milan
Helsinki - while staying in Tallinn (long story why it wasn't the other way around)
Naples - staying in Rome
Valladolid - staying in Madrid
Ljubljana - staying in Trieste

Strumms · 11-04-2026 06:21PM

Naples too, took a cruise in 2014 that took in there….

Mother Shaboobu · 11-04-2026 06:24PM

Houston, Texas - just the airport. Ditto Newark, New Jersey.

Benedict XVI · 11-04-2026 06:52PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124384896#Comment_124384896

Do airports count?

I've been to Singapore and Kuala Lumpar airports twice but never left them.

I've been to Miami airport a number of times but never left it.

Brisbane, went for a wander around while staying in Surfers Paradise.

Cologne, went for an afternoon while staying in Dusseldorf.

Kyoto, went for a day while staying in Tokyo for the world cup.

DXR · 11-04-2026 08:25PM

Hong Kong.

Flew Cathay Pacific, Heathrow to Perth, stopover was in HK for 8hrs.

Does that count?

RMAOK · 11-04-2026 08:32PM

Paris

bogmanfan · 11-04-2026 10:09PM

Been to Dubai, Atlanta, Detroit and Toronto on stopovers for a few hours each. Toronto was lovely. Never want to see Dubai again. A shopping centre in an oven.

Vita nova · 11-04-2026 10:23PM

Munich several times, and closer to home, Belfast.

Deep Thought · 11-04-2026 10:32PM

Dallas

Famous Seamus · 11-04-2026 10:41PM

Miami, while visiting in laws in Florida, it was like being in a dystopian nightmare.

Warsaw, (probably the biggest) en route to Krakow, a bit grey, no desire to go back there, Poland has better cities.

Rotterdam, see comments above about Warsaw.

Bologna, a place I would like to go back to.

Florence, been there many times but never stayed there, of the 5 cities mentioned it's the one I know best

Pherekydes · 11-04-2026 10:48PM

Rome. Visited while on a cruise, but didn't overnight. Others included Naples, Marseille, Saint John and Halifax. For the same reason. I know, the latter two are hardly major cities…

smurfjed · 11-04-2026 11:42PM

Just drove across New York from New Jersey to JFK, so visited but didn’t stay.

Dazler97 · 12-04-2026 04:12AM

London , Amsterdam, Malaga , Paris

Resplendent Moose · 12-04-2026 05:05AM

Probably Frankfurt or Milan, although the former was the airport only, whereas the latter was just passing through on a train. Otherwise if I go somewhere I generally tend to stay over.

I've been to several of the big ones: Cairo, Istanbul, London, etc, but have stayed over. I haven't been to any of the real Asian or US mega-cities though.

furiousox · 12-04-2026 05:26AM

Seattle & San Francisco

(Airports only)

What is the biggest city you have been to but never stayed in overnight?

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