Anonymous wrote:I didn’t hate Costa Rica, but I have zero desire to ever return. I’d give it a 4/10. It felt like dirty Temu version Hawaii. I’d rather spend a little more or go for less time and do Hawaii on repeat.

Same. I was also grossed out by all the old men with young prostitutes there. Will not return.

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Anonymous wrote:St Croix, USVI. ugh, never again. Really exposes you to the underbelly and dark side of these Caribbean island “paradises”

Could you elaborate? These vague posts sucks.

Not the PP, but all the carribean islands are in despair except for the resorts. The government has abandoned it's people who live in poverty, crime is rampant and the police officers don't care and are not there to help you, there are NO women walking around that I saw anywhere/any time, drugs, sex trafficking, bed bugs. It all sucks.

St. Croix never really recovered from Hurricane Hugo. The snorkeling/diving used to be a draw but now the coral is all dead and there are few fish, so even less reason to go there.

Enjoying the post, OP.
Seems, as others have noted, that accommodations make a big difference in the vacation experience. Surprised by how many people, "hate".

LOL!, 18:01, "I'm super well traveled" and 18.04 (Helen, GA) like 5 days inside a Christmas Store.

Drove through PNW this past summer, couldn't find a restroom while driving through Portland. We went to a restaurant, bought drinks to go and we were given a code to use the restroom. It was sketchy, everywhere. I don't need to return to Portland, OR.
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Anonymous wrote:I had miserable experiences in both Miami and Orlando Florida (Miami less so). I will give the state one more shot (have always wanted to see the Keys) but if I don't like it there, I'm never going back to the state as a whole.

you literally picked the two worst places in FL to visit so you shouldn't write the whole state off based on that!

Agreed.
There is so much to do in FL, great weather, same time zone, affordable flights, quirky people, events, and locales. Even Floridians don't go to Miami. Friends in FL won't fly out of Miami or use the cruise port.

Anonymous wrote:I've had maybe two vacations in my entire life that I thought were worth the hassle and expense. As I get older, vacation to me is a state of mind and less going.

I started to feel this way after having kids. I think it's because while vacationing with kids, you are always on duty. But now that I live in a cold place, I've really embraced my winter vacations to warm places. They keep me going.

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Never thought I’d see this response! What didn’t you like?

^Orlando location

Disney. We are here now and it’s plain awful. Mildly entertaining rides are so not worth the wait and the $$. Things we do for our kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Savannah - the drinking culture and slave trade history was just depressing. Good shrimp and grits, though.

I’ve never been to Savannah and do want to visit for the food and history.

I have been in other parts of the South and find plantation tours strange- they often gloss over the slavery and indentured servants part of the operation.

Another big attraction in the South that didn’t impress me was Biltmore Estate. IMHO, so tacky and gaudy. You really have to think a lot of yourself to build such an excessively obscene estate. Biltmore, was part of our trip to the Carolina Smokies, which is a lovely area.

100%. I went to oak alley and they kept talking about how great the slave owners were, how much they loved each other (apparently he built the house extra low bc wife was short??) and how they ‘allowed’ the slaves to ‘sign on’ for employed work after slavery was abolished. They still lived in slave quarters and were paid almost nothing, but good for the slave owners!!!

Anonymous wrote:Savannah - the drinking culture and slave trade history was just depressing. Good shrimp and grits, though.

I’ve never been to Savannah and do want to visit for the food and history.

I have been in other parts of the South and find plantation tours strange- they often gloss over the slavery and indentured servants part of the operation.

Another big attraction in the South that didn’t impress me was Biltmore Estate. IMHO, so tacky and gaudy. You really have to think a lot of yourself to build such an excessively obscene estate. Biltmore, was part of our trip to the Carolina Smokies, which is a lovely area.

Savannah - the drinking culture and slave trade history was just depressing. Good shrimp and grits, though.

I posted earlier on this thread that I hated Pakistan. I've recently been to Iraq, and I also hated that. Just fyi.

I haven't officially "hated" anywhere but definitely have a list of places I have zero desire to visit again...

Las Vegas
Ireland
Anywhere in Florida
OBX

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Anonymous wrote:People rave about Turkey...but having spent time in Armenia, I can't get past the fact that Turkey committed attempted genocide against Armenia and still won't admit it.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/timestopics/topics_armeniangenocide.html?onwardjourney=584162_v1

I just can't get past that.

Does anyone else have trouble visiting a country for social justice reasons?

This is interesting. I am aware of the attempted genocide, but it was 100 years ago. Literally everyone who participated in it or committed it is dead, the government has turned over many times, so I view it as an unsavory piece of history. If you started disqualifying countries for unsavory historical episodes there would be nowhere to visit.

That said, there are certain (current) regimes that I wouldn’t support with my tourist dollars, even if my safety were guaranteed. Putin’s Russia, North Korea, and China, for example.

But it’s kind of like holocaust denial. Imagine visiting Germany and having everyone deny that the holocaust existed, instead insisting that it was just a bureaucratic snafu or something. It’s about a country committing genocide and never taking any sort of moral responsibility for having done so. Those who do not learn from their mistakes, etc.

Exactly. It is one thing fur current citizens to call out the sins of their forefathers. It is quite another to glorify or deny their actions (see Civil War monuments).

Yes because civil war generals are definitely the same thing as Nazi war criminals. Not.

hmm and how were the slave plantations all that different then a forced labor camp?? Seriously tell me how a gulag is any different, in faxt id say that a plantation falls in middle place between a soviet gulag and a work camp like dachau ? - you know plantations had forced breeding programs, how they 'recycled old slaves who couldnt work as childcare labor looking after crawling babies tied on a rope fed slop from a horse trough? the confederate generals were NOT that different from Nazi war criminals.

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