Loved:
1. Yosemite
2. Sequoia
3. Coastal Maine
4. Finger Lakes, NY
5. Boston
6. Williamsburg
7. Aruba
8. Bermuda

No need to return:
1. LA
2. Atlantic City
3. Jamaica
4. Hartford
5. Detroit

Love this thread!

Glad I've been, but don't send me back:
Munich/Oktoberfest
Geneva
Venice
Vancouver
KL and Penang in Malaysia
Moscow
Tokyo

Please sir, can I have some more?
Rome, Rome, Rome!
Tuscany
Wales
The Great Ocean Road outside Melbourne
Beijing
South Island of NZ
southern Utah
Maine coast (esp. Bar Harbour/Mt Desert Island)
Chicago


As other have so aptly put it, "Not again in this lifetime!"
Singapore
Guangzhou (Canton)in China
Atlanta
LA
Detroit

So interesting (and such a relief!) that we are all so different. Being someone who enjoys spending most of my time outdoors, it seems I can almost always find something fun/amusing to do no matter where I am visiting as long as there aren't tons of people and the landscape/vegetation/wildlife is beautiful/interesting. Can't help but add my opinion.
Love:
NY's Adirondacks (live here)
NY's Finger Lakes Region (great wine)
Coast of Maine north of Portland
California's Central coast area (Capitola, Monterey, Point Lobos, Carmel Valley, Santa Cruz)
San Francisco, Berkeley, Northern Calif.
Yosemite Nat'l Park (in winter)
Death Valley (4-wheeling thru backcountry)
Glacier Nat'l Park,MT (simply gorgeous)
Grand Canyon (hard to imagine anyone not being humbled by it - gotta hike to the bottom & back up a few times)
Southern Utah & it's parks (Bryce, Zion)
Arizona (Tucson area, Mt Lemmon, Saguaro
Nat'l Park, Ajo & Organ Pipe area, Chiricauhua Park in southeastern Arizona, Sedona, Flagstaff)
Seattle (loved it in 1985)
St John, USVI (just perfect)

Never again:
Cruise to anywhere (boring & claustrophobic)

The USA is truly a spectacular & beautiful country with so much to see and do. I'll never get tired of it.

Yes!
1.anywhere in the northern part of Italy, my number one favorite country.
2.England, especially the Lake District and Wales.
3.Australia, especially Melbourne and the Great Barrier reef area.
4.Canadian Rockies
5. New England

Glad I went ONCE
Vegas
Brazil, especially Rio
Anywhere in India! or Nepal
Florida
New Orleans
Bahamas
Lisbon and Barcelona

return:
1) Philly- where I live-just have to live in a city where biking is easy and enjoyable.
2) Atlantic City- Its not the beach or the casinos...its all the ghosts! (so many people have had good memories there...they must be returning beyond the grave)
3) Pattaya Thailand...same reason as above
4) Oklahoma City bombing memorial..truly
moving. Now the museum is open. I want to go back
5) Joshua Tree park in California...awesome
6) anywhere in mexico

Dont need to return..Washington D.C..scary..Europe except for the waterways..Japan..too clean..Times Square..totally ruined..Beverly Hills..the armpit of humanity.

TO THE TOP

Wow! Surprised to see my hometown Chicago listed on the "would return" list so many times. I guess when you have spent 30 years in one place its not so exciting.

Never Return:
WDW

Would Return:
Savannah
San Francisco
Charleston
New Orleans
Alaska
Cruises

Chicagoan -

Where specifically do you live/work/play in the Chicago area?

To: Curious
I grew up on the Northwest side (thats NW side of Chicago, not the burbs) when I go out with my friends we usually visit Wrigleyville or Lincoln Park. I worked for a time in downtown Chicago. I hope your message wasnt trying to point out that I havent explored Chicago, cuz I have lived here for 30 years and I have done it all or so it seems. I am moving to Florida next summer cuz I need a change of scenery and climate.

Yes, this is a fun one.
We(husband and 10 yr old daughter) JUST got back from our first visit to Las Vegas and had a really good time
but probably will never go back. It was like Disneyland and we enjoyed seeing the different theme hotels,the buffets, the fun pools and Cirque du Soleil show "O."
Now for my never go back list(actually pretty short):
Tahiti
Western part of North Carolina (we blew it on that trip and missed the Outer Banks)
Las Vegas
Florida

Would love to go back:
Fiji
Buenos Aires
Hawaii
Savannah
Ireland
Portugal
Spain
Maine
Cape Cod
Bali
Mediterranean cruise
England
New Zealand

We live in California and still think the California Coast is the most beautiful we have ever seen and San Francisco the best city!

Will return (since this is the US board, I won't include international locations); in no particular order:
San Francisco / No. Cal.
Washington DC
Anywhere in New England
Boston
Chicago
US Virgin Islands
Las Vegas
Colorado (any ski town will be just fine with me)

Will probably return, but not too high on my list:
New York
LA
Florida

Never again:
Tennessee
Atlanta
Niagara Falls/Buffalo
NJ shore (especially Atlantic City/Wildwood section)
Texas

So glad I went - when can I go again?
-Paris (ah....)
-Aruba
-Palm Beach/Singer Island
-Charleston, SC
-New York City
-San Francisco
-A Princess Cruise Anywhere
-Chicago
-Dowagiac, Michigan
-Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac
-Abacos

Yeah I went, it was swell, let's not go back:
-Maui (what is the fascination???)
-London
-Key West
-Lake Tahoe
-New Orleans

Never, no way, not if you paid me and sent me on a first class tix:
-Puerto Vallarta (NO WAY)
-Kings Dominion
-WDW
-Cozumel
-Caracus, Venezuela
-Friendly's Ice Cream Parlor
-Reno, NV
-Atlantic City, NJ
-Myrtle Beach, SC
-Jamaica (yeah, the whole island)

Places I would never go back again:
London - dirty and overpriced
England - ditto above
most of Europe except France
Most of Asia
East coast of USA
Indonesia ........yuk including Bali


Places I would love to return to:

Western parts of USA and NW
Jordon
Turkey
France +++++++
Australia +++++++
Alaska++++++++

I really hope that Buddists are right and that I can come back as a travel writer - with experience that is.

This is a fun thread. I loved the repsonses; we are all so different! I really like most the places I've traveled to, but there are few times when I would really want to retrace my footsteps...

Places that I would love to return for an encore:
Most of Italy
southern Spain
Luxembourg
Chicago ( I had the worst travel companion & need to actually see it!)
NYC (see Chicago)
Paris

Places I saw once (or more) & that's OK with me if I don't make it back:
Quebec City
Niagara Falls
Lisbon
Islamorada


Places I would have to be offered large amounts of money to return:
Any major Texas city, especially Houston
Jamaica (scary place outside the resort)
Buffalo
Cancun & Cozumel



Berlin

Note to "Planning": If you can't see the MAJOR difference between Maui and Aruba, Abacos and Palm Beach, then indeed, you definitely have BATS in the BELFRY!!

What fun! We all seem to have been to the same places - I guess we've all met(!!) Some thoughts from a Brit in the UK......

Nice - but enough!

Paris
Rome/Florence
Amsterdam
Philadephia
Monterrey/Carmel
Geneva/Zurich
Munich/Dusseldorf/Stuttgart
Toronto
Chicago
Brussels/Bruge

Didn't like at all.....

Menorca
Southern Spain (tourist hell - the worst we Brits can export)


Adore spending time in.....

Boston & Cape Cod
Vancouver
Venice
New York
Ghent
Cyprus
Canterbury/Oxford/Cambridge
Berlin
The Alps (most bits)
Whistler
The Sunshine Coast (BC)
New England (haven't seen all of it!)

I've been reading this thread since it started but am just now getting around to making my list:

Can't wait to go back to:
Wales
Salzburg
New Orleans and plantation country
Montana
Charleston & Kiawah Island
Santa Barbara
Berner Oberland
Vermont

Don't need to ever go back to
San Francisco
Charles de Gaulle Airport
Houston
Stratford on Avon
Oregon
Isle of Skye
Philadelphia
Vienna

Note to Ted: If one lives on the East Coast, flying 12 hours to Maui is the most overrated experience ever. Even in first class. Even in a luxury resort.

Not that it isn't a nice place, it is. But once is more than enough to endure that flight. The traffic congestion is HORRIBLE, the mosquitos will LITERALLY kill you, the beaches suck, and it is just as commercialized as any Caribbean island. Thus, the love for Aruba (commercialized but gorgeous beaches, fabulous restaurants, and a 4 hour flight), Palm Beach (gorgeous beaches, fabulous restaurants, lots to do), and Abacos (gorgeous beaches, no restaurants, no people, relaxation heaven.)

If you think Maui is the be-all-end-all, then you obviously haven't been anywhere else. And the fact that you chose to single this one comment out and need to defend one place (that I might add others have also declared within this posting as overrated), shows you need more to do.

Best of the best:

1. Santorini (Greek Isles)
2. Venice, Italy
3. Hawaii (anywhere)
4. New Orleans (if you're a hedonist)
5. Vancouver (for the scenery alone)
6. Bergen, Norway (if you're not a night owl)
7. Ireland (the countryside)
8. London (if you like pubs and history)
9. Paris (stay away from the tourist traps)
10. Florence, Italy

MarySue, what bugged you so much about San Francisco?

Paris Charles de Gaulle I can understand! LOL.