Love-it-or-hate-it travel destinations

Can't stand Dublin, Copenhagen or Vienna

Love Cologne, Barcelona and Berlin

Can't stand: New Orleans, Vegas or Athens

Love: London, Edinburgh, and New York City

Can't stand: Prague, Las Vegas, Rome, Marrakech, El Salvador, Istanbul Love: South of France, Vienna, NZ, San Sebastian

Hate Las Vegas. Loved Mexico City

Love Amsterdam, hate Atlanta

Loved too many to list: Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Portugal, Istanbul, Prague.

I don't know that I would say I hated too many places. More like places that I found underwhelming or didn't meet up to the hype: Las Vegas, Old Faithful in Yellowstone, Disney anything. The area of Costa Rica I went to had too many springbreakers.

Oooh, New Orleans is a good one, R2. I love it, but I know a lot of people who think it is vile.

Egypt is vile, nasty, filthy.

I'm from LA and I'll bet that LA is an either love it/hate it travel destination. It's not an easy city for tourists to navigate. I'll bet more people end up leaving more bewildered than impressed.

Love: Venice, Genoa, NZ, Israel, Paris, Lyon, Siena, Jerash, Buzos, Naxos, Ios, Thessaloniki and North Greece

Hate: Rome, Amman, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Pape'ete, Hawai'i, Rio, Athens, Zurich

*Shrug*: Amsterdam, Budapest, Australia, Santorini (Theta), Grenoble, Milan, Turin, Johnson City (TN)

^^^ Búzios, not Buzos^^^

Forgot Petra in Love:

New Orleans is a good choice for love it/hate it. Las Vegas too, though I know quite a few people who found it intriguing but wouldn't go back.

Venice is very much love it/hate it. It's my favorite city but I've never been in the height of tourist season.

Bali is very polarising.

Loved India after hearing so many bad things. It has everything. Forts palaces; hiking up north, temples. Laid back beach towns, wildlife, the list goes on and on and it’s cheap.

The most overrated place; New Zealand. Pretty enough, but not at all worth the hype

[quote]Venice is very much love it/hate it. It's my favorite city but I've never been in the height of tourist season.

I love Venice, but you have to get out of San Marco and away from the cruise ship crowds during the day. Otherwise you’ll come away thinking it’s hell on earth.

Love: Montreal, LA, Madrid and dozens more

Hate: Athens, all of Belgium, Beijing

R10 You hate all of Hawaii? Or just one island?

Motherfucking Hollywood

Dubrovnik Crioatia is beautiful but soullessly touristy.

Brazil is trashy. Charmingl but utterly mindless people.

LOVE: London; Stratford; Bath; Canterbury; all of Devon and Cornwall; Cotswolds. HATE: Brighton.

LOVE: Paris; Annecy; Aix-en-Provence; all of Normandy and Brittany; Alsace. HATE: Um, nothing?

LOVE: Venice; Florence; Lakes Como, Garda, and Maggiore; Portofino. HATE: Trieste.

Awww, r16; you hate all THIS?

Love Tokyo, Hate Beijing

HATE Berlin, which puts me in a very small minority on this site.

Love: Potsdam, Warnemüde, Spreewald

Fell out of love with Bamberg.

Loved Istanbul, hated Hong Kong

Love Florence, Hated Venice couldn't wait to leave and I even pretty much avoided the cruise ship crowds.

Nassau in the Bahamas...the worst place EVA!

Loved: Paris, Edinburgh, Rome, Antwerp, Venice, Mantua, Vicenza, Prague, Dublin, Istanbul, Belfast, York, Sorrento, Capri, Bath, NYC in the Nineties, Vancouver in the Nineties, Savannah, Victoria BC, Chicago, Siena, Florence, Mont St.-Michel, Boston, Philadelphia

Could take or leave: Amsterdam, San Francisco, Norwich, NYC today, Vancouver today, Los Angeles, Seattle, Naples, Padua, Bologna, Tours, Rouen, Bayeux, Galway, Athens

Didn't like: Trieste, Naples, Pompeii, Las Vegas, New Orleans

St. Thomas Virgin Islands, had to work there for 2 weeks on a photo shoot. What a shitty place along with shitty food, just glad I didn't have to pay to go there, same goes for Miami Beach Florida, a total shit hole with gross shitty people.

R7 - Loved Dublin and Belfast!?! I have literally NEVER heard anyone say that. Why?

Hate Vegas, I've tried to enjoy it but it just bores me, and for what your are spending you can go to the real places in Europe.

R27 Agree with you on Vancouver. Loved it in the 90s, seems cold and soulless now. Seattle is heading there as well.

I did not like Copenhagen

r32

Well we don't like you

With the exception of Las Vegas and Indianapolis, I never really hated any city. Luckily both were business trips. so I didn't have to pay.

As for Venice, yes, it can be utter hell during the day, but late at night, after dinner, when all the day-trippers and ugly American tourists are gone and you're a little tipsy. and somewhat aimlessly walking back to your lodgings with your partner, the moonlight shines on a deserted canal making the water look like glass, it can be magical.

New Orleans is love and hate. You can love aspects of it, but it takes blinders. It's just as easy to hate. Americans like to take their European friends there saying it's perhaps the most European in feel of U.S. cities; Europeans often react badly to the amusement park quality, the drunkenness and loudness of the place, and its despair (all the people who made the leap of their dreams from some little asswipe town in Texas or Georgia to New Orleans and then worked in a cockring shop for 30 years, living in a falling apartment addition at the back of some shotgun house in Algiers, no health insurance, no money in the bank, just a job selling cockrings and a pasttime of all day Saturday BBQ happy hour at some shitty where they used to get their dicks sucked. It's a city of failed dreams and dreams that were too small.

Copenhagen is not a place I hated. It seems it would be a good place to live, but to visit it was one of the few cities I found underwhelming. Stockholm, on the other hand, seems less favored than Copenhagen but is a vastly better and more interesting city for me; and quite beautiful where Copenhagen is just okay, like a city where you know you are near the good part yet never arrive.

Berlin is an ugly city, oddly scaled and disjointed, but with brilliant parts, and again I think one important consideration is that it's both a good city to visit and a good city to live in, but ultimately a city that reveals its charms to residents.

Belfast is fairly unlovable, so disjointed and too often ugly. The effort of trying to make or keep together a city of what's there to work with is too evident everywhere. There are some wonderful Victorian buildings, but it's not a cohesive place, with few parts that are leafy and pleasant or dense and complex. I would like to like it, but it's for a stopover passing through to somewhere better.

Antwerp I didn't love. It's interesting, but broken apart and rather impenetrable. Would be better to live there than to visit, but I would grow tired of it very fast. It makes me appreciate Brussels and its citizens (make of that what you will.)

Brighton is hard to love despite many ingredients for success. In the end it's too scruffy and third-rate and downtrodden. A little more prosperity would do the place some good (not that it's an especially cheap place to buy, but all the grand architecture has been cut up into pie-shaped sections of shoeboxes and cardboard construction now fifty years old or so.)

Los Angeles can be okay for a quick visit but it's an awful place: amazing, lush landscaping everywhere yet you are never far at all from some shitty stretch of motels and commercial buildings of dubious interest to its neighbors. The car culture is grotesque. Nothing is about where you are but rather to getting to someplace where you or not (geographically, metaphorically, etc.) The architecture is by turns, flashy, tacky, shoddy, amusingly off target stylistically, and temporary looking; new buildings look like they won't last, old buildings you wonder how and why they hung on so long without any evident redeeming value. There are some nice patches, but all in all rather awful. And the people worse.

Las Vegas is lovable for a whirlwind 24 hour stay to see everything nonstop and then get the fuck out; the lovability clock runs out very swfitly. It is awful, of course, without almost no redeeming quality but for the garishness of a peacock in night display, but seeing it all in a flash is a strange and amazing acid trip thing.

There are loads of places in the U.S. I've never been for reasons of knowing myself well and knowing I would not like them. Europe I have found every place interesting at least, a couple mentioned in curious ways, and excepting a few ugly industrial towns that can be found anywhere, never with any recommendation to see them.

Vienna was disappointing.

Love: London, Dorset County (England), San Sebastian, Glasgow, Paris, Bordeaux

Hate: San Francisco, Mexico City, anything Caribbean, Rome, Amsterdam