We have a thread on best, now its worst.


Mine has to be Majorca. I hated it. It didnt help that i broke my ankle 2 days into the holiday .... but it was dirty, everywhere was very 'english' and i just didnt feel like i was abroad.

Penge, SE20.

Id have to say Turkey - it's a lovely country but had a really terrible experience there. We were coming back from the beach one day when we saw a lot of commotion near our hotel. When we got closer we realised there had been a crash involving a taxi and a minibus.
The taxi had ploughed straight into a little corner shop and I could see the taxi driving hanging out the window, clearly dead.
the minibus was on it's side and there were dead bodies on the road, most of them with their faces covered up with cardboard boxes. It was really horrible.

I have to say the ladies toilets by the quay at Paphos, Cyprus. I have never seen anything so filthy and stink so much, I would rather have wet myself than use them. Revolting.

a motel on an old highway about 40k from Niagra. There was what looked like bloodstains on one side of the bed, what smelled like vomit in the bathroom, and a old shirt hanging in the closet.

I felt like a forensics crime scene investigator, not a tourist!::unsure:

I did'nt like Marbella, we stayed in a lovely hotel but the cockroaches came to play at night! (shudder)

I also am not to keen on Tenerife either it has turned into Blackpool, too many yobby Brits for my liking, it's gotten really rough.

I went to Tenerife for my 25th wedding anniversary and wished I had gone somewhere else. I found boring scenery,samey shops and restaurants all with the same menu. The beach was grotty and hotel not much better. It was also full of time share touts although its the last place I would want one.

The only reason we went there was because it was November and we wanted somewhere warm, we couldn't afford anywhere more exotic. The only thing I enjoyed was a trip up Mt Teide.

The only thing I enjoyed was a trip up Mt Teide.

i did Mt Teide too but the day i went up there it was raining and foggy so did'nt see a darn thing! it was pretty hair-raising, the roads are so narrow especaily if your in a bus, i thought the bus was going over the edge, i said my prayers and was ready to kiss my ar-se goodbye. hee

I am probably going to upset a few people here but I would have to say my first visit to London was a huge disappointment. Although the second visit for the "secret" meet made up for it! :)

We booked a long weekend for my 30th birthday and we travelled down by train, which was fab as it only took us 4 hours from Waverely to King's Cross.

It didn't help the fact that I was 7 and half months pregnant and I do think that I made a huge error in choosing to go to London in my condition! :wacko: I was just shattered with all the walking around and ony just got used to the tube system (which in theory is a great) when it was time to go home.

I just found the whole place just huge and dirty with everyone running around. My insides of my nose were balck for days afterwards!

That said we are hoping to have a weekend break with the kids sometime this year! So I am glutton for punishment!

I've been to some horrendous places allright...but somehow always managed to have an ok time there, so they don't stick in my memory as vile places.
Having said that...the worst place on earth as far as I'm concerned is the Customs, Luton Airport.Not a pleasant experience...all eight times!

Not upset at all Bella, because you were obviously hormonal and therefore not in full possession of your faculities. :wink_kiss:

London is a fantastic city and as you know, I'm not a Londoner. We take the boys up on the train very often (granted, it's only 11 miles away), usually on a Sunday. That's the best day if you want to see London without all the daily hubbub with commuters, etc. You really need to walk to experience all the nooks and crannies.

Lunch in Paternoster Square is a very pleasurable experience, with St Paul's Cathedral as a backdrop (in the right company, of course).

On a sunny, warm Sunday you can't beat it, imo.

A hotel on Morrison's Quay, Cork. It's beyond description. We did a runner in the morning sans payment and then had breakfast in an Australian caff where we watched the opening ceremony for the Sydney Olympics.

Middlesbrough's pretty ghastly too.

Think I may have stayed there too fee!! :laugh:

wolverhampton was another bugbear. broke down twice there in three years, and it was a toilet.

I am probably going to upset a few people here but I would have to say my first visit to London was a huge disappointment.





I just found the whole place just huge and dirty with everyone running around. My insides of my nose were balck for days afterwards!



I was born in Hillingdon and love London, but i read somewhere it is supposed to be one of the most unfriendliest places in the world.:unsure:

It's so fast there, it seems everyone is always rushing.

It's fabulous for that. You don't have to pretend to be interested in the life story of someone sitting next to you on the tube. Nor fake caring that the newsvendor is getting soaked through and discuss the merits of a bar of Galaxy when you buy chocolate. :bag:

Patsy no offence hub but Birmingham is pretty grotty! When I was working we used to have district meetings in Bromsgrove and I used to get the train down from Edinburgh to Birmingham. The sights that met me when emerged from New Street Station was so depressing and it didn't make matters any better when the taxi driver I got to take me to Bromsgrove was extremely racist.

We used to normally get a really nice hotel in Bromsgrove but once it was fully booked and we had to get one that a little more downmarket and my god it had the lumpiest beds and the smelliest bed linen ever!

so that's londoners and brummies you've upset so far Bella! who's next!! :devil:

They're all like that in Edinburgh Dol :w00t:

The toilet at the Sharm El Sheik bus station in Egypt...:sick:

...and after stepping over the filthy paper and turds and dodging the pee splashed door frame and commencining my business while squatting over the hole...a guy at the door wanted me to pay him for toilet paper...note this was after I had done my business and used my own tissues...only then did he offer toilet paper! :glare: Needless to say I didn't pay him anything and walked away! :naughty:

I've stayed in places that have been infested with cockroaches, rats and all sorts else but in all honesty have really enjoyed the adventure of it all...I know I must be mad! :wacko:

I have to say the ladies toilets by the quay at Paphos, Cyprus. I have never seen anything so filthy and stink so much, I would rather have wet myself than use them. Revolting.

speaking of dirty toilets, when in kavos, i was once so drunk and on the verge of being sick, i stumbled into the most minging toilets ive ever been in!! and in the bog was god knows what seeing as i had blur-o-vision but the toilet was blocked and there was stuff all over the floor and i though **** it and added to the blockage with my spew. nice. then i stumbled back out again and i didnt flush, but it wouldve been waaay worse if i flushed, my spew wouldve went all over the already disgustingly wet floor.

had to go home early that night.

There isn't anywhere that I've been that i hated, but I've been to some lovely places but had bad experiences. All revolve around men and safety.
I love travelling and traveling alone is great but it really does spoil things when you get pestered non stop for being an english girl alone (or apearing to be english)
I got followed around Tolouse to the point where it got really boring and I ended up just saying **** off to everyone. Getting on a train at Marsaille one man patted the seat next to him and grabbed my arm and then called me an English whore when I yelled F off in his face.
Another place on the riviera I was with a group of girls and we asked in the tourism office directions to a park that we'd heard was stunning, we we warned not to go there alone or after dark. Walking up to it it became apparant why. All the parked cars on the way up had men in with their knobs out trying to entice passers by
Beautiful park too what a shame it was so seedy outside

A small guest house in a small place called El Triunfo in Mexico.

Hot and sticky, but had to use my sleeping back tied as high as I could get it on my body because of the scorpions everywhere. I could see three on the walls as I was going to sleep, also a stick insect looking thing that I was advised would paralyse you for a few hours if it bit! I planned to keep the light on all night to try encourage the many scorpions I couldn't see but assumed were there not to invade......then the electricity went out.

So I watched the scorpions all night by candlelight, sweating in my sleeping bag, and left early in the morning after a breakfast that seemed to comprise 90% hot chilis and 10% egg and tomato.

Stayed in one hotel room there and woke up in the morning with someone else in the next bed! Very strange..."hi, my name is......how are you", quite fun actually, she was very apologetic and hoped she didn't wake me the night before. I assured her the absence of a scream meant she did not.

Then there was the ferry between Cabo San Lucas and the mainland...ran into a hurricane and an overnight trip ended up lasting 3 days. Seemed about a thousand people on board (big ship), half of whom were seasick, food ran out after a day, toilets filled after a day too....nowhere to sleep.

Then there was the hotel in Mexico City that was at a 15 degree angle as it sorted of tilted over in the last earthquake (presumably waiting for the next one). There was quite a big earthquake when I was there, no injuries except for a reported 80 heart attacks. I was in a restaurant and was suprised to see the hotel still upright when I got back, although we suspected it was slightly more leaned over.

Then there was the Nicaraguan hotel with the coral snake in the bathroom (red strip next to yellow...ie the nasty one....never forgot the phrase I learned that night.."red meets black, friend of jack, red meets yellow, kills a fellow".....thee are two types of coral snake, one non venomous, same colours except the red stripe and black stripes are together instead of the red and yellow stripes).

Ahhh, travelling......

It was dusk, and my then g/f and myself were fairly bleedin' lost...to say the least. We were somewhere in Paris though i know not where other than that it was very slummy-looking and clearly not the place two tourists of differing sex ought to be at that stage or possibly any stage of the day. It was quite possible that we were miles away from our hotel which is where we wanted to be but weren't, due to our having alighted at the wrong station.

So ultimately it was a choice between left or right - we chose right (not right as in correct, but the direction, of course) and off we walked in the vain hope that we'd notice a building resembling that of our hotel somewhere in the distance. We must have walked in quiet fear for approximately 4-5 miles before we finally spotted 'a building that closely resemled that of our hotel', so we headed directly for that building, hoping that the money we had managed to keep in our wallet/purse for the last two hours would remain there right up until the moment we crossed the threshold of our weekend base. Fortunately it did, and yes, the building turned out to be our hotel, thank fu*k.

I'm just glad i got this particularly episode out of the way 10 years ago and that it never occurred during the recent riots that broke out all over the city. I believe we'd have lost a little more than the contents of our purse/wallet had it happened then...

Skorpions aside, the worst places ever:

1) Delhi, India
2) Delhi, India
3) Delhi, India

No, I didn't enjoy, Delhi, India. I recommend a trip to the dentist, and a filling with no anaestesia (done that too, no choice at the time), much more enjoyable.