Also, not a big Las Vegas or Disneyland/World fan. I like Six Flag style amusement parks with a higher roller coaster density.
Wouldn’t choose to go back to Oahu, but love Kawai’i and the Big Island is fun. I suppose the North Shore of Oahu would be more my speed.
Love San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.
Didn’t like Vienna, Austria as much as other countries nearby.
“Most of Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas”
Isn’t it in most cases, overgeneralizing if you list a whole state - I mean, maybe you visited Michigan and Kalamazoo didn’t do anything for you, but can you really not like Traverse City??? Or maybe say “no” to Michigan in the winter, or something like that???
Niagara Falls and Cancun
Paris
I know I know weird
I suppose it may be different without kids but I found it so dirty, expensive, and haughty.
Seen enough of Paris and NYC.
The only place that I truly disliked was Athens. And Nairobi–kinda scary.
So we have our winners now - NYC, Paris and Big Island, HI.
It is possible to screw up trips to these locations but it takes some skills.
It’s not weird. My kids and I will not be back to Paris either, been there a few times though. I might visit other areas of France.
El Paso, Texas.
Love Niagra Falls (the falls themselves), Portland, Paris.
I loved Paris and liked the Big Island, HI. Never done enough of NY, NY to know.
Gotta agree on El Paso. We have relatives there, and have to visit occasionally. Same goes for Ft. Worth–wouldn’t visit except for relatives.
Another vote for Las Vegas. Nothing but a strip mall with lots of loud dinging and way more tawdry than most strip malls.
A first vote for a place lots of other people will think I’m crazy to dislike - Budapest. Maybe I’m short changing it because we liked Prague so much. But I though Budapest was uninteresting architecturally. Lots of sameness since so much was built at one time, and somewhat grim.
Vegas is the only place that comes to mind that I wish we had skipped rather than going “because everyone needs to see it at least once.”
There are many places we’ve been, including many listed on this thread, that I’d head back to - even cities, though those are never the highlights of our trips as we’re more the National/State Park type of traveler.
I’d travel 24/7/365 if I could figure out the finances of it all or were guaranteed the rapture would come before we emptied our savings and maxed out the credit cards. It’s always interesting to fill in the mental map of what’s out there in ways that videos and books simply can’t do.
Las Vegas is Orlando’s evil twin.
I’d be okay to never again see Disney, Niagara Falls and Puerto Rico.
Lubbock Texas, Los Vegas, Collage Station Texas, Amarillo Texas. I actually like parts of Houston, and love walking around San Franscisco
To clarify, it was Portland, OR that I did not care for. Too weird, too liberal, too many tats.
And I forgot my number one. One can be a Texan and find Houston abominable. Of course, the Houstonians who live in suburban Shangri-Las disagree. I get that!
As far as Paris, France, I am happy to arrive but ecstatic to leave after a few hours and after having hit the culinary spots I favor. The city and its titis are mostly a pain. Not to mention the filth and smells.
Costa Rica is just one of those places people seem afraid to criticize. It is a poorly ran country with potholes the size of bathtubs, poor transportation, and a massively overrated infrastructure and ecotourism. Our family had several businesses in the country, and my opinion is not based on a quick visit.
I would be thrilled if I never had to “visit” I-95, or any of the associated I-195’s through I-995’s all up and down the east coast… Ever. Unfortunately, I live in a Mid-Atlantic state. We spend way too much time stuck on, er, “visiting” I-95 or plotting ways to avoid I-95 and all the beltways.
Hard to avoid having to go back to many of cities mentioned because they are big convention cities that are hard to avoid missing: Orlando, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Anaheim/Disneyland, Dallas, San Francisco, etc.
Oh, also forgot, Tangiers. I doubt anyone would like that place!
El Paso is a geographical non-sense. It should be part of New Mexico. Spent four years there wondering why it was that dismal.
OTOH, Fort Worth has attractive parts. The DFW Metroplex is mostly great as well as the corridor to Austin. San Antonio is overrated.
Karachi (dishonesty and food poisoning), Johannesburg (vile and suicidal) and Tbilisi (grim and boring).