Popular holiday destinations that don't appeal to you.

[Sandra6]

[QUOTE 2368069, member: 259"]America's massive, Sandra. It's a bit like saying you don't want to go to Europe - there is so much variety and such big distances.

Personally I don't like New York much (if I want the big city thing I really like London) but it's hardly representative of the rest of the place - you might be very pleasantly surprised![/quote]

Maybe, but I honestly can't think of anywhere in America that I want to visit. I have a friends in Maine and Oregan who post pictures of some amazing looking places, but it would be such a huge effort to go there and to be honest a lot of it looks like the lakes anyway.
I do occasionally like the idea of cycling on a cruiser along a beach - like Venice Beach or somewhere - but I'm not going to sit on a plane for hours just to take a 30 minute cycle!

 

[MacB]

Went round to my neighbours back garden for a BBQ last Summer, it was just wrong, none of us were happy until we were back in our own back garden.

 

[snorri]

Have you been to France on a cycling holiday?

Yes, twice.

 

[EltonFrog]

Yes, twice.

Oh Well.

 

[Sara_H]

Blackpool. Eurgh.

Went in October half term with my son a few years ago, never again.

Its a chav filled, stinking, filthy hovel.

 

[swee'pea99]

Blackpool. Eurgh.

Went in October half term with my son a few years ago, never again.

Its a chav filled, stinking, filthy hovel.

You don't work at their tourist office I take it...

 

[Fnaar]

It's a pity that anywhere that becomes popular (say Las Vegas, Goa, wherever) fairly quickly becomes a pastiche of itself, a cartoon version of what made it popular in the first place. We've never had the cash to travel much as a family (though we've had a few foreign hols in the last decade) but we have always chosen off the beaten track/DIY sort-the-details-out-yourselves holidays. It helps that Mrs F is great at the ideas for hols, and I'm good at languages, so it works out quite well.
I used to travel quite a lot for work (not any longer, sadly) and I'm lucky enough to have seen some fantastic and beautiful places.
Ones that stick in the mind are NYC (Manhattan, specifically)...I loved it (made 4 trips there). Also LA (but specifically Santa Monica) was fantastic. Saw some great bits of China, but some of the countryside is in a terrible state (saw people fishing in water that was blue, and not a good blue, but a chemical blue). Hong Kong was impressive, and the islands provide a great trip out.
Vancouver...terrific...Winnipeg...different! and loads more, but I shan't bore you.
For family hols, you wouldn't catch me dead in a Disneyland, or in a teepee in Wales within sight of an industrial estate.
I like the fading grandeur of British seaside towns, but only in an ironic way. However, I love cockles, whelks and jellied eels, and the postcard humour has always appealed to me.

 

[Durian]

Blackpool. Eurgh.

Went in October half term with my son a few years ago, never again.

Its a chav filled, stinking, filthy hovel.

When the World is in need of an enema the tube will be inserted in Blackpool.

 

[Alan Frame]

When the World is in need of an enema the tube will be inserted in Blackpool.

But what does that make people who are just passing through ?

 

[addictfreak]

Benidorm
Magaluf
Ibiza
Ayia Napa

And many others of the same stamp. My collective name for them is 'Blackpool with sun'

 

[Sara_H]

thats the bit i hate about northern england seaside towns. actually most seaside towns in the north. they could be great but a small proportion spoil the place

I go to the Yorkshire coast fairly frequently.

I last stayed Scarborough just over a year ago, and though still lovely in parts its over shadowed my some of the more run down areas.

If I were asked for recomendations, I'd say Whitby for a family holiday and Robin Hoods Bay for a romantic break (in fact me and Mr H had our first camping holiday together there). I love both those places.

 

[subaqua]

I go to the Yorkshire coast fairly frequently.

I last stayed Scarborough just over a year ago, and though still lovely in parts its over shadowed my some of the more run down areas.

If I were asked for recomendations, I'd say Whitby for a family holiday and Robin Hoods Bay for a romantic break (in fact me and Mr H had our first camping holiday together there). I love both those places.

I have nightmares about Filey, Bridlington , cleethorpes . although TBF they are a whole lot better than those on the west side

 

[Sara_H]

I have nightmares about Filey, Bridlington , cleethorpes . although TBF they are a whole lot better than those on the west side

Yes, I've been to the caravan site at Filey once or twice, not pleasant. My ex husband liked Filey town but I wasn't keen.

I can't recall ever going to Cleethorpes or Bridlington.

Staithes is also lovely. Very similar to Robin Hoods Bay.

 

[uphillstruggler]

Blackpool. Eurgh.

Went in October half term with my son a few years ago, never again.

Its a chav filled, stinking, filthy hovel.

i went to Balckpool on a work visit, the appointment was at one of the libraries right in the middle of Pub/amusement arcade hell. the building itself was a lovely looking possibly victorian building but my goodness, the rubbish that surrounds it is hellish.

great beach though!

its a shame that these types of seaside towns have become the sink holes that they have.

 

[Beebo]

here's a holiday that doesn't appeal.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/worl...962-sights-in-1m-package-holiday-8540497.html
£1million per person, 962 venues and 2 years of travel.
I cant imagine anyone would want to travel to a different destination everyday for 2 years it would be hell.