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

[atfc village]

Its touristy all year round.

Stag do's are in all the capitals really. If you have lots of strip clubs, and brothels, then there always will be probably.
There ARE a lot of strip clubs and brothels here.
Wenceslas Square does indeed have M&S and Debenhams. ... something that seemed to excite northern women from UK for some reason.
I suspect the expectation they would be cheaper than UK. They are not.
Cant really remember the last time I was in Wenceslas Square, and I only live a few tram stops away.
Theres a big Tesco's in the middle of Bratislava.
If you stick to the tourist areas, you find tourists.
The only Czech people you will find in these areas are people working in these areas. Czechs dont drink/party in the tourist areas. They cannot afford the prices, as cheap as they are for foreigners. They will party away from the center. Zizkov (A lot of 'smoking' bars), Smichov (some decent clubs that tourists never find), Vinhorady (lots of British and Americans), Letna (mostly Czechs) .. where things are a third or half of the price. This also includes stripclubs and brothels

A Few mates stayed in Smichov and loved it ,cheap bars ,food etc. They ventured over to the tourists trap area and stayed for an hour .Just wasn't their thing.

 

[jameswestport]

Ibiza I guess. Went last month and value for money just doesn't add up! Had a great time none the less but if I spent that much money anywhere I guess I'd have a good time.

Edit: Forgot I was in Singapore when I was little! Hated it!

 

[daveinprague]

A Few mates stayed in Smichov and loved it ,cheap bars ,food etc. They ventured over to the tourists trap area and stayed for an hour .Just wasn't their thing.

I can believe it. I rarely go into the center, unless for a concert. In fact, its rare for me to leave the Zizkov area. Just a lot of souvenir shops with the same crap in all of them, and restaurants charging large as they know they can get away with it. As a Czech friend told me. All the Prague chefs train at the same school. You get the same quality of food in the outlying areas as you do in the center.

 

[crodonilson]

Worst seaside resort I've been to is Minehead, desperate place. We also spent 5 days camping in Northamptonshire about a decade ago now and i was incredibly dissapointed. Can't really think of a bad one abroad, almost to a resort/city better than the UK.

 

[BobbySmith]

Controversial i know, but Cornwall, always rains, bloody expensive and takes 7 hours to drive there. Also Turkey, horrible food, loads of nasty men who spend their whole time groping the female westerners, would never go back there. Was not impressed by KOS, full of club 18-30 Brits who sang 'here we go, here we go' and puked in the street. Kos town just full of British bars and cafe, no culture.

 

[Bry Nylon]

We also spent 5 days camping in Northamptonshire about a decade ago now and i was incredibly disappointed.

I can't begin to imagine how 5 days camping in Northamptonshire could possibly end in any other way.

 

[seagullsoverlincoln]

Skegness.

Freezing cold water, wet sand and full of Northerners.

Yeah,Skeggy is a bit crap..however,compared to Mablethorpe or Cleethorpes,its a bloody paradise.

worst holiday for me-Santander.Its image wasnt improved by watching people catching shellfish down by the sewage outlet

 

[spence]

yep. Hated it. Nice beach & sea. Dump of a resort leading down to the beach. Was about 10 yrs ago.

Glazed examples of meals outside restaurants, "asda beans, Tesco sausage, sainsburys bacon" type advertising everywhere

Went to fetiye - that was nice..

Olu Deniz is a purpose built holiday resort for mainly British clientele . You don't have to buy English breakfasts you know. Explore the area and you will find Turkish food where locals go. It isn't hard.

As for it being a dump you are talking out of your backside here. It's extremely clean.

 

[OzMike]

The southern coast of Portugal, crap.

 

[jimbob5]

1. Gillingham, Croydon, Burnley are not holiday resorts,
2. The fact you had a delayed flight, lost your passport, crashed your hire car is not the fault of the resort.
3. If the weather is bad, either you are just very unlucky, you went the wrong time of year or you went to the wrong place e.g. if you went to Oslo in January and thought it was too cold to sunbath that does not make Oslo a bad place.

 

[Billy the Fish]

A miserable *******s thread!!!

I'm in the never had a bad holiday camp, the whole concept baffles me! Surely you go somewhere and adapt to your surroundings, or do your research first and make sure it's what you are expecting.

Are people confusing not falling in love with a place with having a bad time? It makes me think of when someone posts a picture of a perfectly normal and attractive woman on a message board and 10 blokes will instantly say she's rough, because they can access a picture of Scarlett Johansson in the other tab.

I went to Malta this year and read the threads on here before I went, it couldn't be more different to the way some people described it. I have to say that if you can't enjoy that place then you are culturally brain dead!! The people were all super friendly as well.

 

[Bold Seagull]

A miserable *******s thread!!!

I'm in the never had a bad holiday camp, the whole concept baffles me! Surely you go somewhere and adapt to your surroundings, or do your research first and make sure it's what you are expecting.

Are people confusing not falling in love with a place with having a bad time? It makes me think of when someone posts a picture of a perfectly normal and attractive woman and 10 people will instantly say she's rough.

I went to Malta this year and read the threads on here before I went, it couldn't be more different to the way some people described it. I have to say that if you can't enjoy that place then you are culturally brain dead!! The people were all super friendly as well.

Well said that man.

This thread is like some of the Trip Advisor threads you read.....

hotel food was awful, couldn't eat it, and some of the local restaurants were equally as bad.............thankfully there was a KFC up the road.

 

[Billy the Fish]

This thread is like some of the Trip Advisor threads you read.....

hotel food was awful, couldn't eat it, and some of the local restaurants were equally as bad.............thankfully there was a KFC up the road.

Some of the comments on Trip Advisor are bonkers!

When I went to Barbados a few years ago there were loads of comments on how dirty the hotel was and how rude the staff were. In reality the hotel was budget for the area so wasn't high end standard and slightly dated as the cheaper places tend to be, but perfectly well looked after and the staff couldn't have been more friendly and accommodating.

I checked the comments again and found one that went along the lines of "The shower was filthy - there was sand in it every day". Just a hunch but I think they might have gone to the beach and then had a shower, did they really expect someone on hand to clean their shower every time they used it

 

[Bry Nylon]

A miserable *******s thread!!!

I'm in the never had a bad holiday camp, the whole concept baffles me! Surely you go somewhere and adapt to your surroundings, or do your research first and make sure it's what you are expecting.

Are people confusing not falling in love with a place with having a bad time? It makes me think of when someone posts a picture of a perfectly normal and attractive woman on a message board and 10 blokes will instantly say she's rough, because they can access a picture of Scarlett Johansson in the other tab.

I went to Malta this year and read the threads on here before I went, it couldn't be more different to the way some people described it. I have to say that if you can't enjoy that place then you are culturally brain dead!! The people were all super friendly as well.

Well said that man.

This thread is like some of the Trip Advisor threads you read.....

hotel food was awful, couldn't eat it, and some of the local restaurants were equally as bad.............thankfully there was a KFC up the road.

Ah, c'mon chaps; stop moaning about the moaning. This thread has generated some pealers, my personal favourite of which is the timeless:

We also spent 5 days camping in Northamptonshire about a decade ago now and i was incredibly disappointed.

Classic crodonilson operating at the top of his game and one of the funniest things I have read in ages.

 

[Nibble]

A miserable *******s thread!!!

I'm in the never had a bad holiday camp, the whole concept baffles me! Surely you go somewhere and adapt to your surroundings, or do your research first and make sure it's what you are expecting.

Are people confusing not falling in love with a place with having a bad time? It makes me think of when someone posts a picture of a perfectly normal and attractive woman on a message board and 10 blokes will instantly say she's rough, because they can access a picture of Scarlett Johansson in the other tab.

I went to Malta this year and read the threads on here before I went, it couldn't be more different to the way some people described it. I have to say that if you can't enjoy that place then you are culturally brain dead!! The people were all super friendly as well.

Talking out of your arse. I usually love all the places I go. Went to Dubai with the mrs as she had friends there. I had the money to do that and any other holiday I wanted that year so no skin off my nose. Did a bit of research. Thought it looked like a culturally devoid dump. Got there. It was a culturally devoid dump. Never went again.

I suppose if one can only afford to go to places like Malta and can only do it once in a while then yes, you'd be very sure you are likely to enjoy it by doing loads and loads of research. If however, one has the opportunity to travel to a great many places and to travel frequently then yuo are going to end up in some places you don't like once in a while. You don't go, you don't know.

 

[Gwylan]

do your research first and make sure it's what you are expecting.

Not sure how much research one could do without going there. I read plenty of articles that said Barcelona was a great place (it was before the days of the web so I couldn't research online), it wasn't until I got there that the full horror struck. But would things be better now? There have been a few people on this thread who say what a great place it is. Say to do "research" is totally meaningless.

And my time in Barca wasn't entirely wasted: as I said, I enjoyed the Gaudi buildings, but it is the only holiday venue that I've left, even though it had been booked - that should be a simple criterion for deciding that something hasn't been great

 

[BrightonCottager]

Yeah,Skeggy is a bit crap..however,compared to Mablethorpe or Cleethorpes,its a bloody paradise.

worst holiday for me-Santander.Its image wasnt improved by watching people catching shellfish down by the sewage outlet

Santander? Really? The beaches and mountains round there are stunning and Santander has some brilliant restaurants, presumably not serving shellfish caught by the sewage pipe.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Talking out of your arse. I usually love all the places I go. Went to Dubai with the mrs as she had friends there. I had the money to do that and any other holiday I wanted that year so no skin off my nose. Did a bit of research. Thought it looked like a culturally devoid dump. Got there. It was a culturally devoid dump. Never went again.

I suppose if one can only afford to go to places like Malta and can only do it once in a while then yes, you'd be very sure you are likely to enjoy it by doing loads and loads of research. If however, one has the opportunity to travel to a great many places and to travel frequently then yuo are going to end up in some places you don't like once in a while. You don't go, you don't know.

Come off it, I know from your many rants on here that you're stubborn and won't change your mind about anything if you've already decided it's shit. And don't be so patronising

You can google any town in the world and you'll have an idea of what it's like in about 5 minutes.

 

[desprateseagull]

Tunisia (long before recent troubles) - on outskirts of Hammamet, long coach drive from airport, hotel was next to / part of a building site (the roads were incomplete, too - rough ground to walk on, past open sewer pipes etc).

Supposedly 'all inclusive', but most things excluded from deal. wine/beers had to be obtained one by one, from the bar- no rounds for friends..

Was in November, so pool too cold to swim in. had to ask for sauna to be turned on, also charged for..

Oh, and all this in the middle of Ramadan, making staff v cranky towards end of the day.,.

Did get some compensation, after suing the travel co for totally mis-representing the trip.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Not sure how much research one could do without going there. I read plenty of articles that said Barcelona was a great place (it was before the days of the web so I couldn't research online), it wasn't until I got there that the full horror struck. But would things be better now? There have been a few people on this thread who say what a great place it is. Say to do "research" is totally meaningless.

And my time in Barca wasn't entirely wasted: as I said, I enjoyed the Gaudi buildings, but it is the only holiday venue that I've left, even though it had been booked - that should be a simple criterion for deciding that something hasn't been great

I think you're talking about a time where my comments don't really apply. It must've been much harder to go abroad and know what to expect pre-internet.