What's your favourite/least favourite holiday destination?

That's funny,Eloethan. We were in Rossi's this morning.
Favorite place's. The end of the river behind Brightlingsea (Essex) and the River Deban (Suffolk) all of Easter France.
Holiday from hell: Egypt. We are talking mice in the walls, electric shock from taps, staff letting themselves into guests rooms ( while they were in there) etc etc.
The most exhausting: China.

when - I know what you mean about Las Vegas! You need another holiday to get over the first. I also got married in the Drive Thru Tunnel of Love

Huge respect Vegas. What a way to have a memorable wedding. Any photos, by any chance? Did you have a themed wedding?

My like and dislikes have changed as I have gotten older. When DH was alive I used to love visiting our little place in Spain - now I know I will never return there - too painful. For a really relaxing holiday Fiji - lovely people, lovely weather, beautiful beaches. Loved San Francisco. I also want to return to Rome only had a short time there but loved it.

Blackpool, Malaga, Benidorm and the like you can keep.

Lee, near Ilfracombe North Devon, lovely rock pools. lovely nearby beaches, best chip shop in the world at Braunton, and easy access to Mist the Sheepdog farm and show ! Great holiday with little people

Suits all pockets, no passport needed

I hated my one visit to the Lake District! I know, I know...but it rained and rained and rained, and we walked and walked and walked, and we were staying in a little hotel full of hearty types and there was no hot water when we returned for another wet and muddy walk.

I have loved holidays in: the Rockies; San Francisco; Carcassone; Minneapolis; Lake Garda; our friends' cabin on a lake in deepest Minnesota; The Gower; New Hampshire; Dartmoor; Brighton; and KwaZuluNatal.

As I type, I realise how lucky I am - I could have gone on and on!

This thread has made me want to look at the holiday sites online! Did a cruise last year, Tenerife and Malta already booked for this year - hmm maybe a tour of USA might be good (whilst I am still mobile!!)

when yes, there are photos, but none I'd like to put on GN. However, could bring them to a meet up! No theme, but you really didn't need one.
It was also shown on the internet so that all our friends and family could see. It was hilarious. I think we were married by a cowboy, but I'm not really sure.

Well if you don't remember, vegas ........that's Las Vegas for you!

Bring them to the meetup at the end of the month, and we'll tell all the Gransnetters what you got up to!

petra Although Rossi's ice cream is nice, I don't think it's as nice as it was years ago - but perhaps that's just a case of the "blue remembered hills" of memory.

When we stayed at my granddad's in Suffolk, we often used to go to Brightlingsea - I loved it. I haven't been there for ages and, sadly, what I associate it with now is the picketing against the transport of live animals that took place a few years ago.

Ariadne We used to live about a 30 mins' drive away from the Lake District and, on a good day, it's really lovely, but, as you discovered, it does rain a lot!

Such a difficult question - I love different places for different reasons.

Loved Bali, huts on the beach , open showers, cheap lobsters, but I was a lot younger then.

Love London - now we live in Cornwall visiting London for a weekend as a tourist is fantastic.

Loved the Amalfi coast of Italy, food, people, scenery and wine.

Hated camping on a site in France.

Hated Rome in Holy week!

We went to a caravan on the IOW when kids were 6 and 8, very hard up. Husband on a grant. It was generallycold and wet. One day the sun came out and DS went into the sea. The sun went in again behind a big black cloud. DS came out of sea blue with cold and we wrapped him in a black bin liner to get him warm quickly.

Too much rain and B*** sea gulls stomping about on the roof of the van in the early morning. I have no desire to return to the said island. Ever!

I've had two bad experiences of IoW as well nelliemoser and it's put me off going again, which in a way I regret because several people I know really love it.

Eleothan and I now live in Devon, so I understand the rain..it was all just so not my thing; it was a while ago and we were trying to take an interest in one another's likes and dislikes. Even Theseus admitted it could have been so much better! Now, I can walk on a beach in the rain and it doen't bother me. But we do go our separate ways in some areas, like mud, and long distance cycling, and poetry and music. (him and me!) All very happily agreed, I have to say.

But our big travels are discussed, agreed and looked forward to. Like SA in January!

I had forgotten Benidorm at Christmas. DS and his GF were working there. He was a rep for Thompson's Young at Heart programme, and found me a room in a rather dismal hotel, full of old people - well, I was quite a bit younger then! All I can remember about the place is how drab and gloomy it was - and quite cool as well.

Just come back from one of my two favourites. It is a 'nearly perfect' campsite just outside of Hereford. Perfect and so relaxing.

Eloethan and Nelliemoser, I loved the IOW on our 4 visits there, but we haven`t been for a few years now, can`t afford to take the car, caravan and ourselves over on the ferry anymore. Our favourite part was Freshwater Bay.

Number please-I've just bought ferry ticket to IOW using Tesco vouchers.£10 worth of vouchers gets you £30 worth of fare.
Isles of Scilly is favourite but that is also v expensive to reach .

The next one is always my favourite!

We have been fortunate to have some wonderful holidays, everything from camping to decadent luxury and have enjoyed them all but the worst have been the DH 'surprises' - Gibralter in the rain, the most boring, flattest part of France which was dominated by a factory owned by my then employer! Now he even leaves short breaks to me to organise!

Venice. We are lucky enough to have been 4 times. I had always wanted to go but never thought it would happen. It always seems sort of unreal to me - like a make believe place. To see the gondolas going up and down the winding canals, sometimes with a tenor singing onboard is magical. The artists with their easels set up along the edge of St Marks Square painting the breathtaking views, people dancing to the orchestras in St Marks Square at night is wonderful. It is very expensive but you can find little places where you can eat and drink quite reasonably. Heaven!

I love Menorca, the small unspoilt resorts and Ciutadella town, just being there does me no end of good.

YaYa Menorca's my favourite too - so clean and quiet.

I like Bournemouth and Llandudno.
Every year I go to either Bournemouth or Llandudno.
I think Andie my dog likes these 2 places as well. He wags his tail when I ask him if he is coming to Bournemouth or Llandudno.

Frank

So many places hard to choose, a lot of the US, but particularly loved Savannah and Charleston last year's holiday. Italy would come tops for Europe, especially Italian lakes, Venice and Rome. Two of the most memorable destinations for me would be Mexico and Israel. Places I wouldn't rush back to, large swathes of Spain, mainly the Costas, an area called Murcia springs to mind it has some nasty looking towns especially the ones that are British enclaves. Wandered into some horrible golf complex place down there that my husband wanted to check out, stopped off for a drink and to use the loo in a watering hole where there was a giant screen tv showing dog racing from Walthamstow and the dish of the day was gammon and pineapple, don't think they had ever heard of tapas, couldn't get out of there fast enough! By contrast would love to go to San Sebastian again thought it was really lovely and completely Spanish and unspoiled. Also love loads of lovely places right here in the UK, too many to mention.

My favourite is the little hotel near Lake Iseo in Italy that we have been going to since 2000. It's halfway up the mountain at the end of a tortuous winding road. Fairly basic and they don't really speak much English, but we're treated like family and can come and go as we please. It's more like having a holiday home than a hotel, but without all the problems you get with a holiday home. My absolute favourite is the little town of Pisogne which is a few miles further along the shore of the lake. Perfection is sitting outside the bar at the water's edge with a coffee or a gelato while the evening starts to draw in and the water laps against the wall.
Sadly health problems and finance mean we are unlikely to visit again.