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

Blackpool.I used to like it,but I arranged a holiday in a hotel for disabled people when my late husband became confined to a wheelchair.Everything went wrong,he got taken to hospital,got kept in,not really sure why,so I was hospital visiting as well as trying to have some time in Blackpool.We only had a few days together,I had to come back on my own in the minibus,he came by ambulance a few days later.I felt so upset,I had being trying to do something nice for us.Never want to see Blackpool again

Milton Keynes. Dubai. Both utterly bleak and soulless in different ways.

I wouldn't go back to anywhere on the East coast. I'm definitely a West coast person (Wales, Devon, Cornwall. Dorset) as I love the rugged coastline and hills. I don't like flat countryside and beaches.

I wouldn't go back to Bradford. My grandfather's family came from there, so I visited a few years back. But so many old buildings are gone and it's best visited on Streetview.

Nonsense to say nowhere is more than 52miles from the sea, I used to live in Northamptonshire - 100 plus miles from the sea, a good 2 hour drive each way! Now in N Wales, only 15 minutes to the beach!

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Just to mention that Bradford was once a lovely place with some amazing old buildings. This was a department store called Busby's which has now gone and been replaced by the second picture, a bland shopping retail area. Would you believe it's the same street corner! I expect this has happened in many places.

Too many to choose from! Anywhere with lager louts (that would include several places mentioned already) but if you visit foreign places you have to expect interaction with foreigners trying to earn a living. I learned a few polite Arabic phrases for some destinations which usually did the trick. I recall one shop in Luxor advertising outside 'Asda prices. No hassle. Hassle extra.' On Madeira the annoying folk were Brits trying to sell timeshares: my friend always replied in Welsh which sent them elsewhere.

Bangkok airport, some years ago. On transfer there from Sydney, and treated like prisoners. Guards escorted us to the loos, then all passengers locked in room too small to sit down even on the floor. Two hours!!

Agree with Humpty Dumpty Marrakech sounds exotic but shabby, dirty and constant hassle from men trying to sell something or perving on you.

I live in Derby and it's definitely over a hundred miles to the coast!

Harmonypuss

@Lucca

^Sadly it’s the nearest seaside to me
Worst thing about living in the Midlands is the distance to the sea

Only 52 miles surely. Apparently nowhere In England is more than 52 miles from the sea.^

I'm in Birmingham and I can guarantee that it's at least double your quoted 52 miles to get to the sea. I believe its about 120 to Weston-super-Mare which is my closest seaside town.

Where do I never want to go again.... hospital - the OP didn't say it had to be a holiday destination.

Absolutely on last point, having spent 3 nights in our local one just before Xmas! Was in a ward of 5 and 3 of us had dementia and one screamed all night with pain. It was like being punished for something I didn't know I'd done!

sazz1

Clovelly in Devon as so steep and uneven cobbled path. Charges to walk through there. Awful place

Awww come on, Clovelly is beautiful!
Mind you I havent been for a long while.
We stayed in a pretty b&b on that cobbled street, and met some lovely residents.
We were also a lot more nimble then!

She777

New York and Toronto for me, I’d never go back even for free.

I love Gibraltar though, no crime and very clean.

I almost burst out laughing at your comment on Gib, we lived there for a few years when the border was still closed and even then it was neither clean nor crime free! We went back since the border opened and I don't like what it looks to have become, Essex-sur-Mer in the 'developed' parts down by the Marina, though the other parts are still great.

Chestnut

Just to mention that Bradford was once a lovely place with some amazing old buildings. This was a department store called Busby's which has now gone and been replaced by the second picture, a bland shopping retail area. Would you believe it's the same street corner! I expect this has happened in many places.

That looks awful, we were only talking about Busbys the other week, and Brown Muffs in the city centre which apparently isn't there either. We used to love dressing up a bit and walking round Brown Muffs, couldn't afford to buy anything though.

GrannyGravy13

Pattaya Thailand, full of dirty old European men fawning over young Thai girls, disgusting.

Other places in Thailand are beautiful as are the people.

I agree about Pattaya, same in Bangkok or any other place visited by tourists. The girls/ boys are just doing it to earn as much money as they can but it’s a sorry trade. I’ve been propositioned myself by young girls who only look about twelve. However, I love the country so it wouldn’t stop me going, if I was still doing long haul.
Lagos in Nigeria is an eye opener and I never felt safe there.

Dubai - best thing about it is the flight out of it. Soul-less place.

SCARBOROUGH - the best thing was seeing it in the rear view mirror of the car

Bradford still has some amazing old buildings - one on every corner in the Little Germany area. It actually has more listed buildings than any Northern city apart from Edinburgh and Leeds, with over 2000.

I lived there in the early 1970s, when the Council of the time was intent on modernising everything, and lots of beautiful buildings were lost. Even the incredible Alhambra theatre was scheduled for demolition then, and only saved at the last minute.

At that time, Bradford was the place to be, and Leeds was considered very rundown and neglected. How times change....

harmonypuss I’m in agreement with you there. Never do I wish to return to a hospital bed in windygates Fife where the staff were awful to me or at least some of them. I Must say though there were a few angels in my nightmare of recovery these were true angels so kind and helpful. Unfortunately the bad eggs were there hope they’ve learned their lesson.

For me in the UK it would be Skegness and abroad I’d say Sharm El Sheikh. Fabulous hotel in Sharm but step outside it was awful, constant hassle, plus I got the Egyptian tummy bug big time and lost 48 hours of the holiday.

Tunisia. Hassled constantly by leering men. Hotel stank of sewage. Food unspeakable. No one cared two hoots that we were not happy.

Paris. Holiday from hell. Blazing hot, astonishingly rude staff in the hotel, no small windows to open for some air so we had to have floor to ceiling windows open and then discovered the traffic noise never stops. Attractions bombed out and everyone abrupt and off hand. Dirty and noisy.

Naples. Dirty, crowded, warned by tour guide about moped handbag snatching so felt unsafe every time one went past (approx every 30 seconds). Museum staff rude and unhelpful. Graffiti everywhere. Dog poo everywhere and washing lines strung across all the alleys.

Fuerterventura. Horrible place - holidays apartments and not much else. Just a beach resort

Benidorm and Rimini

Mexico. A lovely hotel but nothing around it and reps said don’t venture out as we were in swampland and we might meet crocodiles. So we were on the hotel complex for 2 weeks with the exception of a guided tour. May suit some, but wasn’t for us.
Scotland: beautiful scenery but for a variety of reasons we wouldn’t return.

Alcudia in Mallorca. Had a holiday there, hated it, swore never to go back. And then ironically, a couple of years ago I ended up LIVING in a small village a 10 minute drive from Alcudia. I still didn't like the seaside place, but the village I lived in was a lovely, very traditional Spanish village and a totally different place altogether.

Torbole- Italy.
Although beautiful in parts, is surrounded by Lake Garda and mountains which seemed to me to close-in on you. To make matters worse friend and I had decided to visit St Andrea's church and the churchyard was filled with children's graves and photographs of them killed in a landslide years before.

My mind worked overtime and all I could hope was that it didn't rain while we were there, even though mountainsides were covered in netting. I just had an uncomfortable feeling about the place. Little English spoken.