LuvOrlando
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- Jun 8, 2006
I doubt I will ever willingly visit a city again for leisure, not unless I know it well, most seem to have drifted a bit too far into Mad Max territory for me to view it as an upcoming pleasure.
Well shoot, now I want to know why you won't return to these places.
Barcelona: lost our passports on a European trip and got stuck in Barcelona waiting for our papers to be replaced. I didn’t want to be there in the first place, the circumstances were difficult and all I wanted to do was get home. Not Barcelona’s fault really but enough of a bad experience to take it off my list.Never say never but there are places I don't ever desire to visit again. Barcelona (Spain in general), Mexico in its entirety, Las Vegas and Reno.
Yup....Downtown Baltimore, especially at night.
Yup....
Not judging, just asking why or is it a particular part of the state?
Please, please, please tell us what resort to avoid. Given the complications of travel right now, we're half-considering an AI in the Dominican for an easy getaway but your cautionary tale is giving pause. Arriving at a golf resort without a golf course would cause my DH to come unglued.Dominican Republic on vacation. We were delayed in Atlanta for four hours, waiting for a wedding party that was late for their connection. We were really underwhelmed with the 5-star resort. It was impossible to get reservations in one of their restaurants, and ultimately had to eat at their buffet and it wasn't good. Their website advertised a golf course, and everyone brought their clubs. When we got there, they told us that they hadn't had a golf course in over 5 years. Two couples in our group were told that they didn't have reservations, even with proof of confirmation.
Boston
Most likely NYC... we had planned a family trip for this fall, and my DD said no way... DH and I have been a couple times. So really not somewhere that we need to go to...
NYC gets a bad rap but it is honestly a nice place to visit. Yrs back in the 70s and 80s it was bad but they cleaned it up tho there is a homeless population that is growing again still not as bad as places I hear about like San Francisco, Oregon etc. Museum of Natural History is area my dad grew up and he played in there as a kid having lived one block over.
France gets my vote for cold, unfriendly locals. And, yes, I did my best to use the little French I learned in school, am always polite, wasn’t demanding, and just had enough hostile/ignoring interactions to never want to go back.I've always heard that the French locals are rude to visitors (sorry if there is anyone from France on here), so I'm wondering if that's their reason for not wanting to go back.
As for not wanting to go back to Cleveland...well that's because it's Cleveland!!!!! Don't get mad, I'm from Cincinnati so you know we're sports rivals.