Travel Best/Worst cities you have been to?

[TheKanga]

So what are some of the best/worst you have lived in or visited?

 

[DroopStDanny]

Plugger35?

 

[M Malice]

These places are all holiday destinations, can't recall a town/city that I have hated.

As a child-
Best- Camping at Beachmere.

As a young adult-
Best- Gold Coast beach side eg. Surfers Paradise, Burleigh Heads, Broadbeach, Kirra.

Now-
Best- Strahan, Bicheno, Stanley, Canungra, Tamborine Mountain, Mapleton, Eumundi, Montville, Maleny.

 

[Gough]

Andamooka.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Coruscant

 

[B4Bear]

Kabul - A very dirty city due to constant war and poor sanitation, yet when you fly over the city there is something enchanting about it and the surrounding 10,000 ft mountains.

 

[The City Boyz]

Best- Athens, Berlin
Worst- Wellington, Noumea

 

[Dazb86]

Best - Sarajevo, Krakow

Worst - Brussels

 

[Scotland]

Does Surfer's Paradise count? Technically a LGA of Gold Coast, but I don't want to tar Broadbeach, Mermaid Beach etc. with the same brush of shitness.

LA is a dump. It's like a bigger version of Perth with more crime and wealth disparity. California is great, but LA is just shit.

For some reason I really like Innsbruck.

 

[Plugger35]

Plugger35?

A thread tailor made for me.

Best - New York, San Diego, Bruges, Salzburg, Stockholm, Barcelona, Lisbon, Edinburgh

Worst - Rome, Naples, Athens, Berlin, Nice, Brussels, Birmingham, LA, Bangkok

 

[Gough]

I like cities on a bay, Capetown, and San Francisco are both lovely. Bulawayo, and Port Elizabeth are both dumps.

 

[The City Boyz]

Best - Sarajevo, Krakow

Worst - Brussels

Forgot Sarajevo. Unbelievable city, loved it. So good.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Berlin the most overrated...

 

[Scotland]

Niagara Falls, ON is a horrible city.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

Just off the top of my head, cities that impressed me beyond the usual:

• Amsterdam is an amazing city if you can move beyond the tourist cafe/red light district. Have a close mate that lives there with his dutch wife. Always a great great visit.
• Milan is favourite Italian city over Rome/Florence. Has that quintessential cosmopolitan European feel.

Cities that stood out as being a being pretty crappy

• Los Angeles is rubbish. Really not a visitor friendly city.

 

[raskolnikov]

Best: St. Petersburg, New Orleans, Melbourne, New York, Baku, Vienna
Worst: Los Angeles, Sydney, Manila

My favourite city on earth is St Petersburg. Just a magnificent city. Would live there if I could. Going back in just over 2 weeks. Happy days.

 

[Plugger35]

Berlin the most overrated...

Yeah I don't get why so many people rate Berlin so highly, it was a pretty ugly place from what I saw of it, lots of grey concrete around which is probably due to half of it being part of East Germany for so long. The weather was grey and miserable when I was there too which didn't help my impression of it.

The nightlife there wasn't anything to write home about either, it might be a more exciting place if you're into the clubbing scene which I'm not.

Prague is another European city that tends to be overrated, the old historic city centre area is really nice but outside of that it's a dump.

Just off the top of my head, cities that impressed me beyond the usual:

• Amsterdam is an amazing city if you can move beyond the tourist cafe/red light district. Have a close mate that lives there with his dutch wife. Always a great great visit.
• Milan is favourite Italian city over Rome/Florence. Has that quintessential cosmopolitan European feel.

Cities that stood out as being a being pretty crappy

• Los Angeles is rubbish. Really not a visitor friendly city.

Yeah Amsterdam is quite a pretty city outside of the red light area, we did one of those canal tours there which is a good way to see the city.

I wouldn't say it was one of the best cities I've been to but it's far from the worst.

 

[Scotland]

Ljubljana and Tallinn are underrated.

 

[Gough]

Ljubljana and Tallinn are underrated.

I went there before they were cool.

 

[the_interloper]

Plugger35?

Lol, beat me to it ha ha.

 

[the_interloper]

Best: St. Petersburg, New Orleans, Melbourne, New York, Baku, Vienna
Worst: Los Angeles, Sydney, Manila

My favourite city on earth is St Petersburg. Just a magnificent city. Would live there if I could. Going back in just over 2 weeks. Happy days.

Geez I thought New Orleans was a bit shit, dodgy as hell, I felt like I could get shot at any moment.

 

[Scotland]

Geez I thought New Orleans was a bit shit, dodgy as hell, I felt like I could get shot at any moment.

'Has character'

 

[raskolnikov]

Geez I thought New Orleans was a bit shit, dodgy as hell, I felt like I could get shot at any moment.

I was there 20 years ago so it may have changed. I just loved the whole French quarter and jazz culture. Plus gumbo.

 

[TheKanga]

Best- Athens, Berlin
Worst- Wellington, Noumea

Have heard from some ppl that Athens was underwhelming as a tourist destination.

 

[Scotland]

I went there before they were cool.

I went in 2010. Were they cool then? Are they cool now? Am I cool now?

It's quite interesting going to a city and seeing it change for the better or worse since the last time you were there. I went to Dubrovnik a few years ago (it was already becoming cool) then again 5 years later and it (the old town) had changed from mostly tourists to all tourists. Had to go out of your way to find a restaurant menu that wasn't in English.

Sadly some of the Japanese ski towns are going the same way. Went to Hakuba once and there was about 3 white people working in the town. Niseko is fast becoming Bali on ice.