Places You Don't Fancy For A Holiday

[Mook]

Not the obvious ones like Baghdad, Chernobyl & Stoke but places you hear about people going all the time & think 'fuck that'.

 

For me most of Asia is out because I feel like it would be too much of a culture shock for me. Thailand for instance, I'm sure it's very beautiful in places but I just don't fancy it at all.

 

Also Australia is out because of the spiders, I wouldn't go near the place even if Katy Perry was accompanying me.

[Elite]

I agree about Thailand, it's a beautiful place but appears to be seedy as fuck.

 

Also the Arab states like Saudi Arabia and Dubai, too harsh penalties for mildly innocent things.

[Section_31]

To be honest I've always fancied Chernobyl, or Pripyat (sp)

 

I don't actually like touristy places which kind of makes holidaying a challenge. For instance, always wanted to go to Rome but couldn't be arsed with all the constant touting and mithering.

 

Also never fancied anywhere where the authorities have got a bad rep for corruption, such as Russia and mehico

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Talacre. Just not enough nudist beaches.

[Mook]

To be honest I've always fancied Chernobyl, or Pripyat (sp)

 

I don't actually like touristy places which kind of makes holidaying a challenge. For instance, always wanted to go to Rome but couldn't be arsed with all the constant touting and mithering.

 

Also never fancied anywhere where the authorities have got a bad rep for corruption, such as Russia and mehico

 

There is a holiday company who do mad holidays like Chernobyl, I was reading about it somewhere a few months back.

 

Found it, Lupine Travel...

 

https://www.lupinetravel.co.uk/chernobyl-holidays-and-tours.html

[El Rojo]

Dubai. Can't understand why anybody would want to go there.

[Moo]

To be honest I've always fancied Chernobyl, or Pripyat (sp)

 

I don't actually like touristy places which kind of makes holidaying a challenge. For instance, always wanted to go to Rome but couldn't be arsed with all the constant touting and mithering.

 

Also never fancied anywhere where the authorities have got a bad rep for corruption, such as Russia and mehico

Never had a minutes bother in Rome, not a bit of mither and no touting. I guess somewhere like that they don't need to drum up trade, plus I stayed in a castle out in the Lazio countryside so for the majority of my stay was away from it all. Obviously once you go into Rome the sheer number if people milling about gives it away as a tourist place, but beyond that you can go about your business no bother.

 

Anyway for me, Portugal, I always get a shudder when friends tell me I should go there. It looks awful to me.

[Paulie Dangerously]

The Caribbean.  It seems a long way to go for a beach holiday. 

[Mook]

I got ripped off within an hour of leaving the hotel in Rome, there were also boys trying to sell us roses everywhere we went & a bloke who tried to charge me 70 euros for letting his budgie sit on my wife's shoulder. It was a fucking pain in the arse to be honest but not enough to stop me going back.

[Anubis]

I'm a bit concerned that my brother and his family are choosing to go to Turkey in July, given everything that is going on over there.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

The Yoonited States of Murica.

 

There are some things about it that I'd love to see - the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Chess Records, etc. - and I'd love to find out if decent food and booze is available.  But the weirdness of the place - the all-pervasive racism; the attachment to guns; the overt, ostentatious patriotism; the distaste for healthcare; the anti-scientific, heretical fundamentalist Christians; the psychological disconnect caused by being the "land of opportunity" and the "sweet land of liberty" which was built on slavery and genocide; etc. - would just make the whole experience too unsettling for me.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I'm a bit concerned that my brother and his family are choosing to go to Turkey in July, given everything that is going on over there.

Depends where you go, I suppose.  My brother-in-law and his wife and kid are just back and they had a great time.

 

The tourist areas are probably safe as houses.  Having said that, it's earning a place on my list of places I'd like to go (like Egypt or Israel) but which I couldn't stomach the thought of paying to support a horrible regime.

[cloggypop]

Anywhere with a beach.

[Paulie Dangerously]

I got ripped off within an hour of leaving the hotel in Rome, there were also boys trying to sell us roses everywhere we went & a bloke who tried to charge me 70 euros for letting his budgie sit on my wife's shoulder. It was a fucking pain in the arse to be honest but not enough to stop me going back.

 

Isn't that part of a law they have that if you take their photo they can charge whatever they want for the rights?  I've heard tales of people getting stung with similar having taken a photo with someone in full Gladiator costume at the Colosseum and being charged hundreds for it 

[Trumo]

The Amazon rainforest and surrounding tourism spots like Iguazu Falls and Machu Picchu. Granted they look spectacular but all the insects, spiders, snakes and other shite can make your time miserable. These things tend to be organised as group tours and there's bound to be at least one person running around screaming at everything like Kate Capshaw in Temple Of Doom.

[SasaS]

The Yoonited States of Murica.

 

There are some things about it that I'd love to see - the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Chess Records, etc. - and I'd love to find out if decent food and booze is available.  But the weirdness of the place - the all-pervasive racism; the attachment to guns; the overt, ostentatious patriotism; the distaste for healthcare; the anti-scientific, heretical fundamentalist Christians; the psychological disconnect caused by being the "land of opportunity" and the "sweet land of liberty" which was built on slavery and genocide; etc. - would just make the whole experience too unsettling for me.

 

 

[Mook]

Isn't that part of a law they have that if you take their photo they can charge whatever they want for the rights?  I've heard tales of people getting stung with similar having taken a photo with someone in full Gladiator costume at the Colosseum and being charged hundreds for it 

 

Telling them to 'fuck off' quite loudly seemed to do the trick.

[Ian Sea]

There is a holiday company who do mad holidays like Chernobyl, I was reading about it somewhere a few months back.

 

Found it, Lupine Travel...

 

https://www.lupinetravel.co.uk/chernobyl-holidays-and-tours.html

That's my mates company. He was in El Salvador meeting MS13 members the other week, researching a new trip. Took Damon Albarn to North Korea a few years ago too.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Dubai. Can't understand why anybody would want to go there.

Dubai is ace. I've been twice and both teams were brilliant. Great food, beaches, bars, buildings, plenty to do, yacht parties, music festivals, shopping, desert sunset Safaris.

 

Just don't walk about with your wang out and you'll probably be fine.

[SasaS]

I got ripped off within an hour of leaving the hotel in Rome, there were also boys trying to sell us roses everywhere we went & a bloke who tried to charge me 70 euros for letting his budgie sit on my wife's shoulder. It was a fucking pain in the arse to be honest but not enough to stop me going back.

 

 

Hope this is not some Scottish euphemism i never heard before. 

[cloggypop]

That's my mates company. He was in El Salvador meeting MS13 members the other week, researching a new trip. Took Damon Albarn to North Korea a few years ago too.

Why the fuck did he bring him back?

[Tony Moanero]

Anywhere that is dead hot during the summer months. I hate sitting on the beach or by the pool. I need to be up and about, doing stuff. Lazing avout is boring.

[Fugitive]

Not the obvious ones like Baghdad, Chernobyl & Stoke but places you hear about people going all the time & think 'fuck that'.

 

For me most of Asia is out because I feel like it would be too much of a culture shock for me. Thailand for instance, I'm sure it's very beautiful in places but I just don't fancy it at all.

 

Also Australia is out because of the spiders, I wouldn't go near the place even if Katy Perry was accompanying me.

I went to thailand last year and it was amazing. I’m defo going again but I’ll be swerving Bangkok as it is seedy and pretty dirty.

 

Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Koh Phi Phi and Koh Lanta are fantastic and some of the nicest places I’ve ever been and the locals were amongst the friendliest. Basically, if you stick to the islands, you can’t go wrong.

 

My bird was talking about Brazil but I’m convinced we will get shot within an hour of landing. I countered with Peru to do the Machu Picchu trail but she said no, the bitch.

[Tony Moanero]

Anywhere where loads of British people go, unless the place is big enough to avoid them. Brits abroad tend to be knob-heads.

 

“Are you a Scouser, lad? Come with us”.

 

No thanks.

[Fugitive]

Anywhere that is dead hot during the summer months. I hate sitting on the beach or around swimming pools. I need to be up and about, doing stuff. Lazing about is boring.

I hate sitting on a beach or around a pool. We went to Cyprus a few years back and that’s all she wanted to do and there was fuck all around us. I was bored shitless and used to take myself off to explore. Found a boss little museum attached to our hotel about about the resistance fighters trying to get rid of the British. It had the first boat used in the resistance inside it and loads of the guns and explosives used during the fight. I was like a pig in shit.