WORST holiday destination you've ever had the misfortune to visit

[pastafarian]

Yes, you wouldn't to go to Llandudno for the weather - or indeed anywhere in Wales. But North Wales isn't grim at all, been there loads of times and there's some fantastic countryside to walk in.



If your idea of a great place is somewhere where every third person is a smackhead or a brass, then, yes, it's a great place. If I were 16 or 17, I'd have thought that it was 'edgy' but once I'd grown up, I recognised it for the hell hole that it was. I decided to quit the place when I was having breakfast at my hotel and saw some bloke OD on a bench about 30m away: the ambulance arriving for him was my signal to leave.

And there may be a myriad bars but you can't drink in them - one evening when I spent close on two hours trying to get served in bars without any success was a lesson to me. I spent my time in the hotel room with beer from a supermarket - really not my idea of a good time. Fine, if it's your sort of thing but it wasn't for me

barcelona was a dump of the highest order,i got shot at there,had hotel room robbed and mugged as well.
i have no intention of ever going back to find out if its cleaned up.

i dont have much luck sometimes on holiday though,a bloke jumped off the Eiffel Tower one year and landed on my picnic

 

[vegster]

I'm off to Sutton Coldfield in the morning for a couple of days, I'll let you know.

 

[Gwylan]

barcelona was a dump of the highest order,i got shot at there,had hotel room robbed and mugged as well.
i have no intention of ever going back to find out if its cleaned up.

Yep, reckoned that if I'd stayed another couple of days, a mugging was on the cards. Like I said, I have no intention of ever going back. I'm not massively wild about Paris either, although I do like France generally - never witnessed a suicide there though (although I did see a bloke felled by a branch that broke off a tree in the Bois de Vincennes)

 

[vegster]

barcelona was a dump of the highest order,i got shot at there,had hotel room robbed and mugged as well.
i have no intention of ever going back to find out if its cleaned up.

i dont have much luck sometimes on holiday though,a bloke jumped off the Eiffel Tower one year and landed on my picnic

Are you Karl Pilkington ?

 

[Bry Nylon]

a bloke jumped off the Eiffel Tower one year and landed on my picnic

Was he taken away in a body baguette?

 

[piersa]

Santa Susana on the costa brava. Even some of the kids had tattoos, I shit you not.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Was he taken away in body baguette?

Superb

 

[hitony]

i've done the Leeds/Liverpool canal through Burnley

Fair play you do go to some very exotic places..........

 

[hitony]

I'm off to Sutton Coldfield in the morning for a couple of days, I'll let you know.

1 week or 2? Guaranteed sun tan so I'm told, enjoy

 

[vegster]

1 week or 2? Guaranteed sun tan so I'm told, enjoy

Just 2 days I'm afraid, then its off to the slightly hilly and very wet Lake District...

 

[hitony]

Just 2 days I'm afraid, then its off to the slightly hilly and very wet Lake District...

The Lake District is very nice.

 

[Bry Nylon]

a bloke jumped off the Eiffel Tower one year and landed on my picnic

Gendarme: "Where did he land, Monsieur?"
Pastafarian: "In the pate."
Gendarme: "Canard?"
Pastafarian: "You can say that again."

 

[vegster]

The Lake District is very nice.

Ah, but Maryport ?

 

[willyfantastic]

easy - Magaluf

went there before uni with a group of mates under the premise of drinks, sun and a laugh - and its absolutely grim. made the mistake once and never again. not sure what i was expecting to be fair, but nothing as bad as that

18-30 places are the pits - the bars are split down the middle, with the blokes watching preseason football down one end and the women watching eastenders down the other. place was full of geordies and those grim party planner/club promoters everywhere. local food is kfc or kebabs - just the worst kind of thing imaginable

 

[Vegas Seagull]

For those saying Blackpool, what exactly did you expect? I get that Blackpool isn't everyone's cup of tea, but it can't be a surprise? For the record, I think it's a right laugh but I wouldn't want to spend a week there.

The thread title says 'holiday' ie a week or more....

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Hmmm, I will obviously have to revisit Llandudno 40 years on. Can't imagine the weather is that much improved though!

Don't remind me of Wrexham, I have to go there in two weeks time for work. It's Grim Up North (Wales).

Agreed. It rains every day of the year in seaside Rhyl and, completely ludicrously you have to sunbathe upside down, looking AWAY from the sea.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

barcelona was a dump of the highest order,i got shot at there,had hotel room robbed and mugged as well.
i have no intention of ever going back to find out if its cleaned up.

i dont have much luck sometimes on holiday though,a bloke jumped off the Eiffel Tower one year and landed on my picnic

I took a girl out to a French restaurant. She had frog's legs and a chicken's breast..... but a smashing personality.

 

[pastafarian]

Gendarme: "Where did he land, Monsieur?"
Pastafarian: "In the pate."
Gendarme: "Canard?"
Pastafarian: "You can say that again."

no sense of humour the frogs
not even a smile when i moaned about my huile d'olive.

 

[BN9 BHA]

easy - Magaluf

went there before uni with a group of mates under the premise of drinks, sun and a laugh - and its absolutely grim. made the mistake once and never again. not sure what i was expecting to be fair, but nothing as bad as that

18-30 places are the pits - the bars are split down the middle, with the blokes watching preseason football down one end and the women watching eastenders down the other. place was full of geordies and those grim party planner/club promoters everywhere. local food is kfc or kebabs - just the worst kind of thing imaginable

I'm guessing you didn't pull then

 

[Questions]

i dont have much luck sometimes on holiday though,a bloke jumped off the Eiffel Tower one year and landed on my picnic

Lucky it wasn't your lunchbox.