Where’s the one place you never want to visit again?

Dolgellau. The most unfriendly place I’ve ever been to in the UK. Like a Welsh Royston Vasey.

Heck! I'm there this weekend Greyduster, I'll keep my wits about me!

? I hope you prove me wrong, Chew. ??

Llamedos13 it really was unbelievably scary to be honest as they wouldn't explain anything.

We were crossing by car after a long drive and it was an evening and pretty quiet. There was, however, a queue inside the building of about 12 people and we had to wait for ages (2 hrs?). The queue included an extended Pakistani/American family (who we were told to stop speaking to). They assumed this middle-aged man had several wives (and asked him this three times) but he was actually escorting his young (14-17 year old) nieces back from a visit to a sick grandmother. He was mortified and alarmed. His own wife was horrified and kept saying "these are my sister's children, they are children" and when their own little boy needed the toilet after an hour or so they wouldn't let a parent go with him even though it was just off the area we were waiting. They were really pushy and aggressive. They were horrible to this little family. I was SO ashamed to be white that day.

Chewbacca

^Dolgellau. The most unfriendly place I’ve ever been to in the UK. Like a Welsh Royston Vasey.^

Heck! I'm there this weekend Greyduster, I'll keep my wits about me!

You'll be ok if you can say one or all of the following and

“Bore da” – Good morning
“Prynhawn da” – Good afternoon
“Nos da” – Good night
“Helô / Hylô” – Hello

I usually mumble "Diolch yn Fawr" Callistemon and giving them a winning smile!

Sillynanny321 - yes I have been to Jaywick several times, and I did not see the TV programme about Jaywick - so there you go.

NotSpaghetti, that’s just awful. We witnessed something similar in the customs when we were escorting a visiting Spanish girl across the border.A Muslim man was ordered to open his water bottle and take a drink to prove it wasn’t explosive?.

My husband is Welsh, but he doesn’t have an accent anymore so that didn’t help at all. Hopeless!

Llamedos13 that is another horrible thing.
It's actually not what they do (trying to protect the country) it's the way they do this.
Lacking respect and common decency.

It wouldn't have been unreasonable to tell us why we we had been taken out of our car and "sent inside" at the border. In fact it was just to pay the tax! A few $ each - but they wouldn't tell us.

tictacnana

Corfu. Horrible, filthy and dangerous.

We have been to Corfu on holiday and it is NOT Horrible, Filthy and Dangerous
My son, wife and baby daughter are there now and have been in contact and I think if things had changed dramatically since we were there they would have mentioned it!

We've been to Corfu several times. It's absolutely beautiful. Lovely friendly people.

Unlike some posters here I loved New York - visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park, all the touristy things, the hotel was marvelous and we found New Yorkers so friendly and helpful wherever we went. It was grubby, and the roads and pavements were in a terrible state, but the buzz and 24/7 life in the city was such a contrast to my home here. Times Square isn't a square either!

Obviously, if you had a bad experience ( in any place at all) it will put you off returning.Others places are just grim and you can’t wait to leave.
As well as Burnham-On -Sea, I would put Bolton on my never to visit again list and also Bridlington.Not terrible or anything, just found them rather depressing.
There was also a place in Scotland some years ago, only a small place by a loch ( can’t remember the name of it) that gave off sad and depressing vibes in spades, made me want to jump in the car and leave, so we did.Strange how some places can have that instant effect on you isn’t it?

Blackpool, I passed through it once quickly, it’s a very unlucky place for our family.

Passing quickly through Blackpool is always a good idea LadyGracie, I try not to hang around there for very long myself.

I loved Blackpool when I went.
One of my fondest happy memories is of my mum and daughter on the biggest of the rides together.

Rhyl, we went in the late 60s and it seemed very depressing then, wouldn’t go back anyway.
Paris, so sad about that, went many times as a student and young married with very little money and LOVED it. Went recently, full of areas of unemployed young men on the streets (no women - made me extremely uneasy), visible muggings at Sacre Coeur, beggars on the Metro and street corners. Wish I’d never gone back.
Rome - had a lovely hotel, excellent tour of the sights, wonderful weather but just couldn’t get over the traffic and parked cars! Felt so claustrophobic. And they don’t have enough money to stop most of the wonderful Roman edifices from going into disrepair.
Loved Ibiza strangely in its clubbing heyday. Never went near the clubs but the island was relaxed and beautiful. Loved New York too, been a few times recently, bustling and friendly.

I feel I should go to poor old Rhyl now.
Somebody must like it!

MarinaL

Lanzarote, it's too windy.

Oh I agree.Had a splitting head most of the time I was there from the wind.

I did like Lanzarote, it s so different.
But I agree about the wind - don't put suncream on then sit on a sandy beach

Faversham in Kent, I went because I read an article about the history but it was boring and the worst thing was the public loos were closed on a Sunday afternoon ( pre Covid). How they expect tourists to visit with no facilities I cannot fathom

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Daisend1
Barbados.
Oh no. What was it about Barbados? We have a holiday booked there next month!"

Barbados is lovely, so much to see and do. Visit St Nicolas Abbey, Hunt's garden, The Reserve, Bridgetown, Harrison's Caves, go on a sea trip on "Cool Runnings" and the submarine and don't miss the local rum. The local yellow buses are great fun. St James is the area to be as it is on the Caribbean Sea but Bathsheba on the Atlantic is interesting although the beach is rougher.

We had a fun holiday in Rhyl in a caravan when the children were young. It wouldn’t appeal to us now as a senior couple, but our holidays now consist of days walking, going to NT properties and having a lunch somewhere with a view.
Horses for courses and all that …..

lemongrove

Obviously, if you had a bad experience ( in any place at all) it will put you off returning.Others places are just grim and you can’t wait to leave.
As well as Burnham-On -Sea, I would put Bolton on my never to visit again list and also Bridlington.Not terrible or anything, just found them rather depressing.
There was also a place in Scotland some years ago, only a small place by a loch ( can’t remember the name of it) that gave off sad and depressing vibes in spades, made me want to jump in the car and leave, so we did.Strange how some places can have that instant effect on you isn’t it?

Maybe you just don't like places that start with a B?

Lemongrove was the place in Scotland possibly Ballachulish or Braemar??