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Don't know if it's a holiday destination, but Dubai. Heat and shopping malls are two things I'd pay to get away from.

Anything in the USA, because that place scares me.

Norwegian fjords. Because I already live here.

Any of the Disneys. Just screams consoomer to me and I risk running into a Disney adult

Florida because Florida

Bali.

Way too many bogans. I go on holidays to get away from them.

Magaluf. Twats

Croatia, I live there.

Dubai, most of the Middle East, China, most of the deep south in the US, and any other states or countries like Singapore with shit like beatings or the death penalty.

If Singapore ever relaxes its use of beatings and executions, I would consider going, as it has beautiful gardens and amazing green infrastructure.

New York City. Stayed one night before flying home and discovered it was noisy, smelly, crowded, dirty, expensive and generally horrible.

Pisa, it is total tourist trap. Italy has way much better tourist destinations.

While not exactly a holiday destination per-se, having seen pictures of people literally waiting in line to get to the trash pile at the peak of Mt. Everest is such a turn-off that I'd skip it even if I was a true mountaineer.

Bali

Indonesia has so many beautiful places, but Bali is mostly (I know there are nice places and things too) visited by people who I actively avoid

The Australian bogan is bad enough, but there are the dregs of all sorts of societies there

Go to Lombok instead. It's fucking gorgeous

Most of them. The more popular, the less I'd want to go.

I want to see Japan, but I have almost no interest in Tokyo or Mt. Fuji or anything well known outside of Japan. I want to see small towns and non-touristy places.

Turkish resorts. They are mostly in places where people were taken in bunches to the sea and thrown off board just a bit more than 100 years ago. And anything Turkish tbh. Oh yes, there is a lot of friendliness of the "oh so your ancestors are from Ispir, mine too, I have friends in Ispir, come visit" kind. It feels mind-bending, because it's always orthogonal to whether the person saying it thinks that genocide is, you know, not okay.

I would probably want to see the less tourist (less inhabited honestly) parts, where villagers follow you with suspicious looks.

Various despotic monarchies attracting scammers and whores. That is, I'd probably be interested to take a look, but the fact that there are places where you can be jailed arbitrarily technically doesn't instill confidence.

Israel. Being part Jewish too, I'd kinda feel like complicit in evil. I've felt that once, don't want to repeat yet.

Anywhere in the US. I live in a western country that's basically a US colony, so I've seen and heard enough of the place without actually going there. Plus - Grand Canyon: it's a lot of rocks with a big canyon amongst them. Doesn't interest me.

Any resort, frankly. I remember a conversation with a colleague a while back about holidays. I said I'd like to see Turkiye, and they mentioned that they had been the year before - to a resort at Antalya that they never left the entire time. Now, each to their own, if that's what makes you happy on holiday then do that. But to me personally? That sounds bloody miserable. That sounds like you didn't see the country at all. Why go o another country to only stay at a resort trying to cordon you off from the country? If I go to Turkiye I want to see the Roman and Ottoman heritage of Istanbul, or try all the Turkish coffee, or see the rock-cut towns and balloon festivals in Cappadocia, or visit Gobekli Tepe. You know, stuff I can only experience in Turkiye

Tokio; it's just way too busy for me and all the tourists (particularly the ones that don't have any manners) do their part.

Thailand. Too hot, sweaty and heard too many horror stories. The culture and scenery just isn't my cup if tea so I'd spend a fortune for nothing

Taj Mahal because it's in India and I am female.

Any place where a lot of people are. I don't want to see them in my holidays. Scottish highlands were nice. And Norway.

There's nowhere that I wouldn't like to see for myself at least once. So I'll go with somewhere that I've been already and wouldn't miss if I never went again.

Paris. It's literally just a big dirty city with graffiti and people peeing in alleyways like any other city, plus a few famous landmarks that you only need to see once, in areas where everything costs twice as much. Big whoop.

On a side note: I didn't encounter the stereotype of rude French people anywhere in France. If you're friendly, don't treat waiters and stuff like servants and don't expect people to fall over their feet for you, I found them to be just like any other human beings anywhere else. Some people are friendly, some people are just doing their jobs and getting through their days.

The closest I came to a 'rude' French person was on my way out of the country, going through all the hoops in the airport. This one women at the counter's face almost seemed to light up when she saw and was so friendly and warm. Until I spoke English and then her face just dropped and she barely looked at me or said a word the rest of the time.

Any and all of them.

Because i don't like people, and that goes double for crowds of em.