^^LOL, agreed, @lookingforward ! I grew up in North Alabama/East Tennessee so our family made many trips to Gatlinburg and the Great Smokey Mountains starting when I was a young child. It’s sad to see what it has become. In my very distant memory I can remember when it consisted of around five blocks, including the candle-maker, the taffy-puller, another candy kitchen or two and some wood-carving shops.
Jamaica. I have no desire to spend my entire vacation at a “gated” resort and am appalled at locals desperate enough to bang on the windows of a tour bus to sell me a trinket. Can’t these people’s energy go to some more productive use? I just wanted to give them something but of course we were cautioned against that.
I am also not a fan of Cancun.
I do not like either LA and Las Vegas (although they aren’t actually “loved by all”). While LA has at least a few places which are worth visiting (NOT Hollywood though), there is absolutely nothing about Las Vegas that I find attractive or interesting. I’ve been to Paris a few times, and it’s been enough. Unlike others here, I actually like Barcelona a lot, but then again, I grew up in a Mediterranean country and the light, the climate, and the stone buildings and courtyards have a very homey feeling to them for me.
I find Cambridge (UK) to be heavy and oppressive, and, although my wife loves it, I’m not fond of London. Rome is just dirty and decaying, and full of tourists and people trying to rob and cheat tourists.
PS @Nrdsb4 Alaska is the largest state in the USA by area (it’s larger than the next three in size, TX, CA, and MT, combined), and Fairbanks is very different from Anchorage, which is not similar to Juneau, and Barrow Point is not comparable to any of the above. There are the glaciers, the temperate rain-forests, and places like the Denali, etc. So that’s a lot to dislike.
Florence is one of my favorite cities. It is a walking city with great restaurants and little local shops. I have been there over Thanksgiving, Spring and many times over the summer. My two favorite hotels are Westin Excelsior and the Grand Hotel on the same square. I have also stayed at an airbnb on the other side of river right next to Ponte Vecchio. My kids like to say going to Florence is like going home.
As a New Yorker, I really do not like the tourists. I could always tell who they are - the ones that look up and the ones who stop in the middle of street (no, you really have to move).
I went to college for a year in Uptown Philly & found it to be super depressing. But I agree with this!
I live just outside NYC & love it.
I am a NYer who loved her college time in Phila.
I did find India extremely difficult to travel in (although the Taj Mahal was one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen). The poverty was depressing to me.
In DC, we referred to tourists on sidewalks as “taking their half in the middle.”
BE kind to tourists! You are one many of the times in another town,
@lookingforward AMAZING. I’m going to use that for the tourists in SF. I work very close to China Town and I’ve considered getting a bb gun to shoot them out of the way when they inevitably, continually and painfully “take their half in the middle.” Ok, NOT really, but in my mind I have ; )
Versailles. First time 25 years ago it was cool as a teen. Last time recently. So crowded. The lines were like bellying up for the bus going to officer candidates school. The only thing I really wanted see was the gardens. And now it’s a totally separate admission ticket. And beaucoup d’argent.
The train from Paris wasn’t great either. Boring and bleak.
Also sacrilege on CC. But Harvard square and the visiting the yard was lousy. Crowded. Muddy. And you can rub John Harvard’s foot. Wow. Life is now complete.
Has lines been always so long everywhere? I can’t stand long lines but it seems these days wherever, you go lines stretch.
Ok, guess I’m not alone- for me Vegas… and I don’t feel the need to return to Rome.
Where, in keeping with tradition, thousands of drunken first years have peed on.
The above is offered as a public service announcement from your moderator. 
@skieurope Ouch. Tell me you refrained. ???
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I have never been to Harvard Square. Ok, I am also not a fan of Boston. When my kids were visiting schools, I asked their Dad to take them to those places.
OMG, joining the choir of Harvard square and surroundings non-fan. Kid went to school in the outskirts of the city and got us well appraised of the things we needed to be aware of. ?
Boston Marathon. Talk about running in a ZOO!!! Once was enough. Can’t believe folks come and do it year after year.
I can’t think of any place I’ve actually hated. I seem to live in the moment wherever I am and find something enjoyable about each place. It could be as simple as one good meal or a new kind of potato chip or a kind word from a stranger. I like little towns, big cities, nature, hikes, museums, amusement parks, riding the train or bus - it’s all good. I’m not that sunny in real life, but something about getting away to anywhere puts me in an open mood to explore and experience. But maybe not New Delhi again.
Hate is a strong word. More like “Why? That’s IT? Oh why did we come here?”
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Nope. More crowded planet, more people across the planet with the financial means to travel = overcrowding in many tourist destinations. Many places - Italy, Bruges, Thailand - are trying to think of ways to limit tourism before it ruins them.