Really popular destinations you're not interested in / places you changed your mind about

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the hype about Arizona. We visited years ago and I found the landscape ugly.

I never wanted to visit Ireland but was invited on a trip. Wow! I was blown away and loved it. I can’t wait to return.

AZ is huge. There are Beautiful and barren parts.

The desert area around Tucson is gorgeous and can be quite green

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Anonymous wrote:Paris wasn’t high on my list of places to go either, but we went last summer and had a great time. Though I do prefer Florence, and Italy in general.

I’m pretty open to going anywhere but places in the Middle East and Africa interest me the least-though I do want to go to Morocco and Tanzania.

Not really interested in Australia either, though would love to go to New Zealand.

I too would rather go to New Zealand than Australia.

Why all the lack of love for Australia? Is it the length of the trip, or are you all pale people who don't like the beach period?

Australia is huge and the key sights are scattered across long distances.

While there's some lovely areas and mountains and beaches, most of Australia is nondescript or dreary landscapes.

Very expensive with very high taxes on just about everything.

Not too different from the US in a sense (it's not the same but the lifestyle is comparable enough, low density cities with sprawling suburbs, most people have suburban lifestyles)

Little in way of museums or cultural venues.

Loud and visibly proud working class subculture that isn't always endearing.

I do like Australia and have always enjoyed my trips there but I can also easily see why not everyone would find Australia worth the money and effort. New Zealand, by contrast, is stunningly beautiful just about everywhere, is quite compact and makes it easy to do an active trip, friendlier people, and in general gives you more bang for the buck. While I wouldn't regret not seeing Australia again, NZ is still on my must see place despite already visiting three times.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the hype about Arizona. We visited years ago and I found the landscape ugly.

I never wanted to visit Ireland but was invited on a trip. Wow! I was blown away and loved it. I can’t wait to return.

AZ is huge. There are Beautiful and barren parts.

+1 we loved Sedona for it beauty. however the town itself was quite boring. We are by no means party people, but it was even too quiet for us. We're talking Dinner rust at 5pm and everything was shut down by 8.