Anywhere you have NO interest in travelling to?

MrsA1210

Publius:

Blessed55:

mxolisi:

Not really. There are places that don't top my list but nowhere I'd outright refuse to go. And I totally agree that it's weird to write off entire regions or continents--especially ones that hold ~half of humanity. 

I think I might've read the question wrong. There really isn't anywhere I would absolutely refuse to go if I were given the opportunity. However, the places I listed are close to the bottom of my travel list, so unless I ever become a multimillionaire that can travel anywhere and everywhere then I won't put them at the top of my list. 

This is how I read the question as well.

Same here.  More like, what destinations don't come to mind when planning future trips because I'm not particularly interested in them. In the hypothetical where I have unlimited time and money and can also visit all of the places I am extremely interested in, I would go anywhere in the world. 

maggie78

Paris and Bali. Bali is becoming more interesting if you stay away from the typical areas I think (still low on the list). But this is coming from a non-drinker, non-gambler that loves Vegas (and has seen plenty of other places in the world that your average person hasn't).

mxolisi

Yeah, I think I read it differently because I so very rarely get a choice in where I'm going! Even my holidays are usually tacked onto my (or H's) int'l work travel. I go wherever people tell me to and somehow always enjoy it. I'm a total travel slut.

The only place I truly don't want to go to is Chad-and that's because I've visited most of its neighbors and can't imagine it is THAT different and all my friends who go there gain 15-20 lbs from eating the only available food--oily, fatty camel meat with rice/pasta  

Moxie27

JJwritergirl:

MrsHark122:

Omg some people actually wrote off all of Asia? lol!

The question was where you have no interest in travelling to... I'd go if it was paid, but I would never invest in visiting China or Japan. It just isn't on my list. It's no different than someone writing off all of Africa.  

except for the fact that Africa is a continent comprised of numerous countries and china and japan are countries...

Moxie27

bula:

Las Vegas, Cancun and Hawaii

per DH- Hawaii is an overrated, fake paradise for Americans too scurred to go elsewhere.

interesting commentary...

 

AKuzReve

I think the only place I really have no desire to go to is London but I'd go if I had the chance. Everywhere else is fair game (as long as it's relatively safe).

koosh ball

I am not sure there is any place I wouldn't go to. There are places I wouldn't pay to go to myself though. On that list would be Rome (hated it), maybe India, Russia, Oahu (love the other islands though)

emilyinchile

I am nodding along with MrsHark and m+j. I went to Oahu for my anniversary last year and wasn't really excited about it (H won that one) but ended up loving it - and I live outside the US, so clearly I'm not scared Oh, and I'm going to Cuba in Sept and have barely started researching it, and I already think there's PLENTY to do there!

Australia isn't on the top of my list because it's just such a hard trip with the time change and doesn't seem as culturally different as other places with similar jetlag issues, and Japan for whatever reason just doesn't excite me. But since Japan is only one country in an entire continent with incredibly different cultures, I won't write off all of Asia just yet. 

gahanwild

NYC is the one place that I really have no desire to visit.  I'd rather travel overseas

No real desire to visit India yet I will be flying to Mumbai in a few days for work and I will be there for the next 6-8 weeks.  Not my first choice of work assignments BUT I am not going to pass up a ton of OT pay and staying at a 5-star hotel on the company's dime! 

 

AGsWife

Las Vegas (and along the same lines, Atlantic City.)

Hawaii (I'm not really a beach girl, and if I did want to go to the beach, I'd go somewhere I didn't have to spend 12 hours on a plane to get to.)  

Asia (except China)  

Ireland - I wouldn't avoid visiting there at all costs (I have some friends who want to plan a group trip there - I wouldn't be totally opposed), but it's not on my bucket list of places to visit. There's not much there that interests me. 

Jells2dot0

Mine is fairly straight forward:

 Anywhere on the State Dept Warning List because our jobs prevent us from going to those places. I'd like to stay employed.

I also don't like bigger cities. I do not like large crowds and get overwhelmed by them. So, it's not a knock on any one destination, but rather a personal preference to avoid feeling uncomfortable. I went to London last Thanksgiving since it was my FI's choice and just about had a panic attack.  Doesn't mean I won't ever end up in a larger cities or populated area, though!

marytini

I have no interest in the Caribbean or the Middle East.

LaurierGirl28

Perhaps I worded the question wrong. Most of us on this board would go anywhere if it was paid for, I kinda meant where we wouldn't purposely plan a trip. 

traveling turtle

I've never had much interest in visiting Australia or Hawaii. I'm starting to get more interested in going to Australia lately, though, for some reason. 

 

cheekywife

i always find this question interesting. for me, it's vegas. 

while not a "place", i know that cruising is not for me. i like traveling on my own timetable and my type A personality would not be able to give up that much control i totally understand why some people enjoy it. it would be an ideal way for someone like my best friend who has not traveled extensively and gets easily overwhelmed by planning and would like only having to plan small amounts of time.

 

AGsWife

cheekywife:

i always find this question interesting. for me, it's vegas. 

while not a "place", i know that cruising is not for me. i like traveling on my own timetable and my type A personality would not be able to give up that much control i totally understand why some people enjoy it. it would be an ideal way for someone like my best friend who has not traveled extensively and gets easily overwhelmed by planning and would like only having to plan small amounts of time.

 

Cheeky, I agree with your take on cruising. Just wouldn't be for me, though I know people who love it. 

m+j

I understood the question.  I guess my point is, I can't rule out a place or say it doesn't interest me if I don't have a valid reason for doing so.  If you have a reason for not going that's based in fact, that's one thing. My amusement with these posts always comes from people generalizing or stereotyping certain destinations, when most of the time they are dead wrong (in my experience at least).  That's the problem with making assumptions about places you've never been.  I think the poster who said Hawaii is a fake paradise for people who are scared to leave America is out of her mind, but since she's never been, she wouldn't know that.  I just think it's sad that she's writing off a destination and her reasoning is so off base it's crazy.  

I can't say that there's any place in the world that I absolutely have no interest in visiting, although having grown up in Hawaii and having lived in Vegas for the past 15 years, places with really cold temps tend to be much lower on my list.  

balbacm

Disney.  x1000.

 

 

BlaireD

Fun Question! I will have to repeat Vegas. Been there...not super impressed. 

I have also heard Mt. Rushmore is pretty anticlimactic.

India is also not on my radar, though from time to time the history and the culture etc intrigue me, but I harbor that same fear of spending the entire trip in the bathroom

I often go through phases of places that I am super excited and super NOT excited to visit. Most of it depends on how much I know about certain countries - their sites, culture, landscapes and history. 

Side note - We recently visited London for the second time. I completely expected to have a good time, nothing spectacular per se, but I fell in LOVE with the city this second time, just because I was able to experience so much more! So for me, it changes all the time! 

 

frlcb

I would assume some of these people have actually been to these places and would not choose to plan a trip there again. I wouldn't go back to Vegas. I wouldn't go back to Miami. I would never return to the Bahamas. Jamaica as well. 

fernane

UDShoeGal92306:

India.  I have enough stomach troubles without going to India.  I guess I shouldn't say I have no interest in going, it's just towards the bottom of my list.

This is funny cause when H and I went to India he got some sort of staph infection and ended up having to have minor surgery in an Indian hospital to hold him off until we got back to the states. We think he actually picked it up from the plane, but that's our most vivid memory of India! 

fernane

JJwritergirl:

MrsHark122:

Omg some people actually wrote off all of Asia? lol!

The question was where you have no interest in travelling to... I'd go if it was paid, but I would never invest in visiting China or Japan. It just isn't on my list. It's no different than someone writing off all of Africa.  

There is a LOT more to Asia than China and Japan and Asia is SO incredibly diverse!! Some of the best beaches and mountains in the world..and SO much history. 

fernane

N. Korea

places in the middle east where there are safety threats.

Other than that, I want to see everything I can! 

Also baffled that several people only think of China and Japan when Asia is talked about....? :shrugs: I LOVED Myanmar, Sri Lanka and am living in Vietnam which I love. Also would love to go to Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore

alithebride

m+j:

I love reading these posts for the stereotypes and false perceptions.  I'm pretty open to trying anywhere once.  There are places where I've been that I am in no rush to return AND places that are lower on my list than others, but I'd never completely write off visiting a place based on the experience of others or things I've read/heard that may or may not be true.  

me too! for example-i hate vegas but love cancun. go figure. i enjoy cancun (and have been 10 times over the past 10 years). completely different places imo. me thinks that OP's DH should experience for himself before making assumptions. LOL and anywhere can be gluttonous. it really depends more on the PERSON than the destination.

for me it's more of i have LESS of a desire to visit some places than others-as i'm interested in going pretty much everywhere.for example: hawaii. sure-if someone said lets go i'd go, but given the choice i'd go to about 3000 other places first.

CharacterZero

Asia or Middle East

laptopprancer

bula:

Las Vegas, Cancun and Hawaii

per DH- due to the gluttony for LV and Cancun and Hawaii is an overrated, fake paradise for Americans too scurred to go elsewhere.

I trust you prefer places with more articulate people?

 

hutchsl

Nonny:

I'm going to take a pass on Syria and various parts of Africa for safety reasons, but otherwise I'm pretty open to going anywhere (including those places should they become stable).

I'm of the opinion that most destinations can be enjoyable given the right mindset and travel companions.  But of course I am going to prioritize places I really want to see over places that I find less interesting.  For example pretty much anywhere in Europe is more interesting to me than Mexico, but if I got a free trip to Mexico I wouldn't snub my nose at it.

This except would not plan a real trip to Mexico. If we are in a border town we may go in for the day but even that I am not wild about. (We have property in Texas 50 miles from the border.)

We prefer Costa Rica to Mexico. DH and I have each been to Mexico a couple of times and places so not interested in going back.

IAmMalcolmX

Ditto the person who said camping. Also me and H's foreign families love Las Vegas!!

starlettedir

China or Japan.

If someone gave me a free trip I wouldn't turn it down though.

I would love to go to Thailand if that makes any sense. LOL

MsBlake

Camping in a tent in a 'roughing it' kind of way. That's not just 'no interest'... that gets a flat out fuckno from me.