Cities you'd never return to

Sir Arthur Daley · 19-04-2014 11:52PM

Stheno wrote: »

Valetta in Malta, overcrowded, dirty and smelly

Malta full stop to be honest

Malta off peak is nice, when busy its a no go location imo.

bohsboy · 19-04-2014 11:56PM

Crete. They should carry out nuclear testing on it.

ArtyM · 19-04-2014 11:57PM

Stheno wrote: »

Valetta in Malta, overcrowded, dirty and smelly

Malta full stop to be honest

Never been to Valetta.
I have been to Malta though and thought it was a very very beautiful place.
Would go back in the morning.

Duck's hoop · 20-04-2014 12:07AM

Olive8585 wrote: »

Not trendy either. But if I'm going to use the cool short form of a city name, I try to get it right!

Knowing hardly any Catalan people (I do hope that's the correct word), and a great many of my peers refer to Barcelona as 'Barca' I use 'Barca'.

It is not a cool form. Though it is short. Were I to refer to my recent or impending trip to Barna, I am certain it would be presumed I was talking about the hamlet outside Galway city.

I will continue to use the diminutive 'Barca'. And be uncool.

Olive8585 · 20-04-2014 12:11AM

Duck's hoop wrote: »

Knowing hardly any Catalan people (I do hope that's the correct word), and a great many of my peers refer to Barcelona as 'Barca' I use 'Barca'.

It is not a cool form. Though it is short. Were I to refer to my recent or impending trip to Barna, I am certain it would be presumed I was talking about the hamlet outside Galway city.

I will continue to use the diminutive 'Barca'. And be uncool.

Or you could just say Barcelona like the rest of us

Duck's hoop · 20-04-2014 12:13AM

Nah

bnt · 20-04-2014 12:15AM

Bangalore. I spent two weeks there, giving a training course, and couldn't go out by myself, only with a driver. I would have gotten mobbed by beggars, mugged, squished while trying to cross the road, or hopelessly lost (street signs were the exception, not the rule), Maybe it's improved since I was there (late 2006): It was #3 on Lonely Planet's "must visit" cities list in 2012, and they now have a LUAS-type light rail service.

20-04-2014 12:21AM

Be happy if I never seen Warri, Nigeria, ever again. One of the real kip's of the world, for any number of reasons.
But never say never.

bnt · 20-04-2014 12:23AM

Another is Porto: Lisbon was interesting, but I passed through Porto heading north: really not much happening there, and the city centre managed to creep me out on a sunny Sunday morning.

beano345 · 20-04-2014 12:24AM

Arbiter of Good Taste wrote: »

Bangkok. Utter hell. Stinky, smelly. Dirty. Everyone trying to scam you. Never again.

I thought that when I first went but the madness and hectic way of life grows on you,only realised when I got back from travelling the rest of Thailand how much I loved the place. Anyways Brisbane city did nothing for me at all stayed 2 days and was glad to leave it awful,souless,characterless place

brinty · 20-04-2014 01:05AM

London and Cardiff
Food was disgusting
Sick from both places for days after

Sir Arthur Daley · 20-04-2014 01:07AM

brinty wrote: »

London and Cardiff
Food was disgusting
Sick from both places for days after

Nothing to do with drinking copious amount of pints of local beer maybe?

brinty · 20-04-2014 01:11AM

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Nothing to do with drinking copious amount of pints of local beer maybe?

No
I don't drink

jane82 · 20-04-2014 01:14AM

brinty wrote: »

London and Cardiff
Food was disgusting
Sick from both places for days after

Maybe just bad luck in fairness. Food poisening from one place, hardly blame a whole city on it.

winnie the schtink · 20-04-2014 01:23AM

SEATTLE, never got a fcukin wink in the kip

Sir Arthur Daley · 20-04-2014 01:28AM

winnie the schtink wrote: »

SEATTLE, never got a fcukin wink in the kip

Why not?

Olive8585 · 20-04-2014 01:34AM

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Why not?

Cos they were SLEEPLESS.

Sir Arthur Daley · 20-04-2014 01:37AM

Olive8585 wrote: »

Cos they were SLEEPLESS.

Was there any windows in your hotel?

OUTOFSYNC · 20-04-2014 01:44AM

Malmo, Sweden

Shane-KornSpace · 20-04-2014 01:54AM

Santa Ponsa. Biggest dive I've been to, ever. Never again. Too many scum bags looking to start fights for no reason other than you're from a different part of Dublin to them.

Scaglietti · 20-04-2014 02:09AM

Marseille and Sarajevo

Degringola · 20-04-2014 06:43AM

Amsterdam. Wanted to take a scrubbing brush to it.

nc6000 · 20-04-2014 07:00AM

johnnykilo wrote: »

Definitely Brussels. Not too much to do there, but the thing that really got me was how awful the people were, everyone I met from taxi drivers to shopkeepers, even the people in the tourist office were incredibly rude. French people are fine in real life but people in Brussels are exactly like how French people are portrayed in films; arrogant and rude.

Eh Brussels is in Belgium, not France!

Seaneh · 20-04-2014 07:09AM

cymbaline wrote: »

Barcelona - I can't quite put my finger on why I disliked the place but I did.

Yup Barcelona's the stand out for me too.
Maybe it's the sheer amount of street crime, maybe it's because the city is filthy, maybe it's the sheer amount of prostitution and hard drugs or maybe it's the surly, arrogant Catalans, but something about the city just annoyed the sh!te out of me.

happypants · 20-04-2014 07:17AM

A lot of the places I loved visiting are on this list! Difference of opinion I suppose, maybe I'm easily pleased, my favourite thing to do in a new city is to wander about take in the sights and do some people watching.

Rotterdam- very very boring. Nothing to do or see of interest.

Phuket- as a woman I found it sleazy, travelled over to visit a friends family so stayed off the beaten track you might say. The amount of old men with very attractive younger beautiful girls/ young women was very noticeable. Most of the men were British and Irish and looked
And spoke to us (group of Irish girls being polite) with contempt. I suppose they didn't like that we weren't subservient little women fawning over their beer guts. I loved Bangkok tho, it's probably one of my favourite places I've travelled to! Such a fast paced fascinating city, I walked around in awe! Plus our hotel was top notch yet incredibly cheap.

Im on the fence about Galway...I went for the first time a few years back I had a great time. It might have been the beer goggles but it was fun if you forget about the students we caught actually robbing our pints... I returned last weekend though and couldn't help but notice the amount of hipsters. Lotsa try hard guys in knitted jumpers with moustaches sitting at the bar reading poetry, trying hard to be different yet all looking the same. It was good value for food and drink, hotel was also great value and anyone we spoke to were actually really friendly (mainly staff) so I probably would return.

Pinch Flat · 20-04-2014 07:24AM

Naples. An utter kip.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 20-04-2014 07:27AM

Johannesburg, law and order doesn't seem to apply, I was never as edgy in any city. A crazy place, you'd feel sorry for the Afrikaners in a way, even if most who remain are rugger bugger supporters and professionals who don't work for the State and live in gated communities.

lufties · 20-04-2014 07:30AM

happypants wrote: »

A lot of the places I loved visiting are on this list! Difference of opinion I suppose, maybe I'm easily pleased, my favourite thing to do in a new city is to wander about take in the sights and do some people watching.

Rotterdam- very very boring. Nothing to do or see of interest.

Phuket- as a woman I found it sleazy, travelled over to visit a friends family so stayed off the beaten track you might say. The amount of old men with very attractive younger beautiful girls/ young women was very noticeable. Most of the men were British and Irish and looked
And spoke to us (group of Irish girls being polite) with contempt. I suppose they didn't like that we weren't subservient little women fawning over their beer guts. I loved Bangkok tho, it's probably one of my favourite places I've travelled to! Such a fast paced fascinating city, I walked around in awe! Plus our hotel was top notch yet incredibly cheap.

Im on the fence about Galway...I went for the first time a few years back I had a great time. It might have been the beer goggles but it was fun if you forget about the students we caught actually robbing our pints... I returned last weekend though and couldn't help but notice the amount of hipsters. Lotsa try hard guys in knitted jumpers with moustaches sitting at the bar reading poetry, trying hard to be different yet all looking the same. It was good value for food and drink, hotel was also great value and anyone we spoke to were actually really friendly (mainly staff) so I probably would return.

Oh Gawd, that sums up Galway alright, such a cringe. These guys are embarassing, the too cool for school try hards and look like they should have been in the poxy band 'the thrills'.

Regarding thailand I can imagine a western girl would feel out of place. Having dated a few thai women, they've all been stark raving mad loons, nora batty mad like. I cringe at some of the 'expats' in thailand going around as if they own the place..The poor auld divils seem to be miserable really at the back of it.

drquirky · 20-04-2014 07:35AM

The Vatican
Longford
Yakima, Washington
Detroit
Santa Domingo

All ****holes in vastly different ways

lufties · 20-04-2014 07:42AM

drquirky wrote: »

The Vatican
Longford
Yakima, Washington
Detroit
Santa Domingo

All ****holes in vastly different ways

If Longford is a city then budapest is a wonderful friendly place.

Cities you'd never return to

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