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Cities you'd never return to

lufties

Having been in a good few places around the world, I would have to say Budapest is a beautiful one with regard to history and architecture, but it is definately to most unfriendly place I've been, the people I encountered were rude and unhelpful consistantly, hence I will not be returning. Other than that I'd say stuttgart in germany(yawn), or varanassi in India, an interesting place but a nightmare to get around.

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Pyr0

Without a shadow of a doubt, it'd be Naples. Complete sh*thole of a place, couldn't get out quick enough.

ben.schlomo

Casablanca - dirty, loud, crap souk.

Pisa - see the tower and leave.

Dortmund - industrial, dark, gloomy.

road_high

irish_goat wrote: »

Shoulda come on the Derry forum and asked, there's lots of nice little places, albeit hidden away somewhat. It has improved drastically in the past few years as well.

To be fair it was a wet miserable day and my bf at the time had zero interest in history. Maybe need to give the place a second chance.

road_high

irish_goat wrote: »

Milan - Aside from the nice city centre architecture there is feck all to do unless you like expensive clothes. Outside of the city centre is very industrial and concrete and it's a nightmare finding a bar.
Tijuana - Basically one big tack market with cheap chemist shops.
Stockholm - Feck all to do there as well apart from have your wallet gouged by bars and restaurants.

Yea I thought Milan was a huge let down. I was there and was like "is this it?".

irish_goat

Milan - Aside from the nice city centre architecture there is feck all to do unless you like expensive clothes. Outside of the city centre is very industrial and concrete and it's a nightmare finding a bar.
Tijuana - Basically one big tack market with cheap chemist shops.
Stockholm - Feck all to do there as well apart from have your wallet gouged by bars and restaurants.

Zaph

road_high wrote: »

Serious? I had Dubrovnik on my radar for hols? I thought it was a great place?!

Dubrovnik is a lovely city, but I'd agree with the other poster that 7 days is too long there. But Croatia is a beautiful country so I'd recommend travelling to some of the islands after a couple of days in Dubrovnik.

Probably the only cities I'd never go back to are:

Perpignan - for a city the size of Limerick, it shouldn't take nearly two hours of walking around at 9pm to find an open bar.
Tijuana - only city I ever felt uneasy walking around, and that was at lunchtime. I'd hate to see it at night.
Valencia - couldn't find any proper centre in the city where there were decent bars and restaurants. And the heat was a killer.

irish_goat

road_high wrote: »

I visited Derry a few years ago for a day..I didnt think much of the place. Despite the hype and efforts to promote the place, culturally and historically all I could see were a lot of dodgy looking people and pound shops and cash converter places. To find somewhere decent for lunch was a struggle. Mainly fast food kips. Very down market city.

Shoulda come on the Derry forum and asked, there's lots of nice little places, albeit hidden away somewhat. It has improved drastically in the past few years as well.

Cody montana

Bali, dirty and over populated.

cml387

mfceiling wrote: »

Stockholm...cannot think or remember anything about it.

Dubrovnik...7 days there...what was I thinking?

Dubrovnik??? You must be thinking of somewhere else.

Brian?

wakka12 wrote: »

Im surprised by all the posts about Paris. I wasnt expecting much going to paris because of people saying things like that but I still went because I just felt like I needed to see paris at least once!
Anyway, it really impressed me overall! It was so ridiculously beautiful and I found everyone I interacted with to be as friendly as anybody in Dublin, at least.I was actually embarrassed by how little french I had yet nobody seemed to mind that and were happy to help me out.

The venders are incredibly annoying yes but sometimes its fun taking the piss out of them. I was very wary of pick pockets due to all the fuss you hear about them but yeh never seemed to have any problems with them. (I wore a money belt which was very helpful)

The only thing I was disappointed by was the food ironically, every restaurant sold extortionately priced food and none of it was even slightly memorable, some of it I would even call bad.

Paris is my favourite city in the world. I didn't find Parisians the slightest bit rude, I had many jovial exchanges in my pigeon French. Admittedly the wife's fluent French( the French Canadian flavour) probably oiled the exchanges.

As for the food, best walking around food in the world. I rarely actually sit down in a restaurant there, the street food is way too tasty.

Every inch of the city is beautiful.

wakka12

Im surprised by all the posts about Paris. I wasnt expecting much going to paris because of people saying things like that but I still went because I just felt like I needed to see paris at least once!
Anyway, it really impressed me overall! It was so ridiculously beautiful and I found everyone I interacted with to be as friendly as anybody in Dublin, at least.I was actually embarrassed by how little french I had yet nobody seemed to mind that and were happy to help me out.

The venders are incredibly annoying yes but sometimes its fun taking the piss out of them. I was very wary of pick pockets due to all the fuss you hear about them but yeh never seemed to have any problems with them. (I wore a money belt which was very helpful)

The only thing I was disappointed by was the food ironically, every restaurant sold extortionately priced food and none of it was even slightly memorable, some of it I would even call bad.

Brian?

Cody montana wrote: »

Public transport is shocking as well.
Walk of Fame is just dirty.

Public transport is so bad it's hilarious. The walk of fame is almost tragic it was such a let down.

Cody montana

Brian? wrote: »

Los Angeles. I try to find the good in every city and it has some lovely bits; Santa Monica, Beverly Hills etc. . But in order to see them you'll be stuck in a traffic jam, even at 1am.

Public transport is shocking as well.
Walk of Fame is just dirty.

Brian?

Los Angeles. I try to find the good in every city and it has some lovely bits; Santa Monica, Beverly Hills etc. . But in order to see them you'll be stuck in a traffic jam, even at 1am.

MadDog76

Jotunheim wrote: »

Did anyone say Marrakech yet? If not, they should have. Aggressive, horrible kip.

Times 928,850 .......... a close second to Hell.

Cody montana

Dubai

catbear

Piura, north Peru. Went there to explore ancient pyramid complexes, abandoned that idea when I saw that the local police wore balaclavas on duty. I have travelled in a lot of poorer places in the world but the sense of menace in this place was like nothing I'd encountered before.
It was far more dangerous than my research had suggested but the reason was that a lot of Columbian drug lords had moved to Peru recently and were trying to take over the local towns.
I was never so glad to get the fook out anywhere quicker.

seamusk84

Jotunheim wrote: »

Did anyone say Marrakech yet? If not, they should have. Aggressive, horrible kip.

Awful awful place. Spent a week there last August. Constantly got chased by taxi drivers and people who wanted to "help" me see the city. Just constantly trying to extract money from you.
Don't talk about the general filth of the place too. Also food poisoning galore if you eat outside your hotel. The whole place is overcrowded to a new level.
Shockingly bad City, very few redeeming features.

smurgen

donegal_man wrote: »

Riyadh. I'm on my way home from it atm and while I can generally think of something positive about everywhere I've been it's got nothing I would recommend to anyone

I wouldn't go there for love or money.Horrible people.

smurgen

Pisa,Alasio (also in Italy), NY,Tijuana.

Duff

Sacramento. Strangest place I've ever been. It's like there's a curfew once the sun goes down. Whole city is like a ghost town at night.

Jotunheim

Did anyone say Marrakech yet? If not, they should have. Aggressive, horrible kip.

anti-venom

Tegucigalpa in Honduras. Got stuck there for nearly a week once because I was too ill to travel by bus. It's a dangerous tip and I can't think of anything redeeming about the place. Shuddering at the memory..........

donegal_man

Riyadh. I'm on my way home from it atm and while I can generally think of something positive about everywhere I've been it's got nothing I would recommend to anyone

road_high

mfceiling wrote: »

Stockholm...cannot think or remember anything about it.

Dubrovnik...7 days there...what was I thinking?

Serious? I had Dubrovnik on my radar for hols? I thought it was a great place?!

road_high

I visited Derry a few years ago for a day..I didnt think much of the place. Despite the hype and efforts to promote the place, culturally and historically all I could see were a lot of dodgy looking people and pound shops and cash converter places. To find somewhere decent for lunch was a struggle. Mainly fast food kips. Very down market city.

tom tit tot

Dubai. I'm (relatively) well travelled and also pretty easy going... but Dubai is the worst city I've ever had the displeasure of visiting and the only place in the world I'd never go back to.

Axel Lamp

Dublin. New Orleans. Moscow. Limerick. Belfast. Hong Kong. Bangkok. Mexico. Tijuana.

gingernut79

Paris; lots of great things in it but once was enough. It takes so long to get between all the attractions. 3 and a bit days was plenty.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Santa Cruz in Bolivia is the grimmest dullest city I've been to.