Where are the worst places you've been on holiday?

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Mr_Wang wrote: »

The recurring problem I keep noticing is that some people are judging an entire country from a little chavvy hamlet.

Turkey for instance, Marmaris is a dive, Icemeler a bit better - Selcuk is beautiful, Istanbul fantastic.

You can't expect to go to a beach resort that attracts Jeremy Kyles finest and it actually be the holiday of a lifetime. I mean come on :cool:

I've been to the other Turkey, away from the resorts, and it's even worse.
Large parts of the country are rural,backward and peopled by knuckle-dragging Neanderthals who make the Turkish men in the resorts look like sophisticated metrosexuals.
Treatment of women,children and animals is appalling by Western standards and the police are little more than legalised thugs.
Turkey really IS a toilet.

mum2one

Gambia - the last but one night - the hotel reception bloke sold my room number to a local friend of his........

I answered the door as it was a patio dr, as made friends in the hotel a mum and son, she hadn't been well so told her son if he needed any runs tablets to come and knock, (this was 10pm) - this bloke barged his way past - how I got out without being attacked to this day i don't know, spent the few hrs with the rep who wasn't happy as she had to come out, tough luck I was nearly rap!d...... the bloke got arrested eventually, - I was pressured to not press charges as i would have to go back to the country to give evidence, - held out and said want the police

wasn't called back (lucky), - dont know what happened to the hotel reception bloke - his excuse was I had turned him down - his friend apparently would be kicked out of the army and dealt with!!

I wasn't a naive 18yr - I was early 30s, and as i travelled by myself I always wore a wedding ring, - and checked into the hotel as Mrs xxxx -

jjblondie

My Mother made us go on a family holiday to Merthyr Tydfil, the land of suicides, incapacity benefits claimants and premature death. To this day I don't know what possessed her to think that this was a good idea. Even the bus driver there thought we were nuts to come and visit the place - he told us we'd have been better off staying at home. He was right.

callum9999

Doshwaster wrote: »

Exactly. Turkey is a huge country - bigger than France or Germany. You may as well say "I hate the UK. I once went to Slough on a wet Tuesday night in December. The whole country is a dump."

Slightly depends on their reasoning though. Many things people complain about are cultural things and endemic to the whole/most of the country.

I personally hated Marrakesh - it was dusty, smelly and full of people determined to scam you. Which is a shame as I got the impression that most of the "normal" people who lived there were actually pretty nice.

And although I'm male so nothing was targeted at me, by the end of my 4 day trip there I was pretty disgusted by the letching and shouting the men over there were constantly doing to random women. If I found it that irritating, I dread to think how the women felt!

lostinrates

I disliked Karachi a lot. I was quite young, it was the last leg of a long journey, and I am sure those things influenced my opinion. I don't remember peoe being unpleasant (cultural difference yes, unplleasant , no) but it was one of the few places i found i could not make a meaningful personal connection in conversation with anyone. The person I went with however, loved it, so I enjoyed their enjoyment of it.

carmel11

Nassau in the Bahamas seems more attractive because its on paradise island, ( hog island as it used to be called doesn't have the same ring!)
Oh yes I just remembered, I went to brac in Croatia , only place I never really took to, didnt find the people particularly warm, the foods a bit 1950s but I was prepared for that.

totallybored

Deleted_User wrote: »

I've been to the other Turkey, away from the resorts, and it's even worse.
Large parts of the country are rural,backward and peopled by knuckle-dragging Neanderthals who make the Turkish men in the resorts look like sophisticated metrosexuals.
Treatment of women,children and animals is appalling by Western standards and the police are little more than legalised thugs.
Turkey really IS a toilet.

Istanbul is one of the most amazing cities in the world IMHO.

Tiglath

I loved Turkey - avoided all typical resorts and backpacked round for 3 weeks. Didn't have a single problem, and didn't get hassled by guys either - even got a double seat to myself on coaches so I wouldn't be sitting next to unknown men. I would definitely go back.

mcc100

lostinrates wrote: »

I disliked Karachi a lot. I was quite young, it was the last leg of a long journey, and I am sure those things influenced my opinion. I don't remember peoe being unpleasant (cultural difference yes, unplleasant , no) but it was one of the few places i found i could not make a meaningful personal connection in conversation with anyone. The person I went with however, loved it, so I enjoyed their enjoyment of it.

I loved Karachi, but only because I stayed one night there in a 5***** hotel paid for by the company I worked for

busiscoming2

Roda in Corfu was an awful resort but we were even more glad we weren't in Sidari.
We hired a car and found a lot of the North of the Island the same. On a positive note the people and food were lovely.