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sianeth
post Jun 20 2009, 01:11 PM
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Nominate your worst beer/hotel/flight/toilets/anything here...

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How about this for the world's worst beach, Mumbai, India?

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Anyone got any nominations?
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ashleyrenee
post Jun 20 2009, 01:52 PM
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should this be places we have been? or just places we have heard of?


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post Jun 20 2009, 05:52 PM
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I like to be an optimist and make the best of everything (as long as no one gets hurt). The worst place I've been to was not the place, but the company that ruined the trip. Other then that I think that it's the adventures that we remember and tell people, good or bad.

This is a train we took in Bolivia which, promptly, ran off the tracks but even that made a hum drum, sticky, stinky and long train ride memorable.


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post Jun 21 2009, 03:14 AM
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QUOTE(laorfamily @ Jun 20 2009, 11:52 PM) *

I like to be an optimist and make the best of everything (as long as no one gets hurt). The worst place I've been to was not the place, but the company that ruined the trip. Other then that I think that it's the adventures that we remember and tell people, good or bad.

This is a train we took in Bolivia which, promptly, ran off the tracks but even that made a hum drum, sticky, stinky and long train ride memorable.


I agree with that, the concept of this website is a bit too negative really, but sometimes the worst things do make the best stories, as you said!

Hmm, trains running off tracks does sound quite terrible - the sort of thing you'd cry about at the time, but then laugh about later.

I'd say thats how I feel about the worst place I ever stayed in, the Three Ducks Hostel in Paris - they had stolen NHS Chester bed sheets, outhouses for toilets, a trough to wash your hands in, a courtyard that all rooms backed onto in which people thought it was a good idea to have sex in, a metro line running right underneath it, and then they tried not to return our passports until 8am ('policy') even though we had to be at the airport to get home by then! Hilarious place though, looking back!
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post Jun 22 2009, 10:28 AM
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QUOTE(sianeth @ Jun 21 2009, 04:14 AM) *

I'd say thats how I feel about the worst place I ever stayed in, the Three Ducks Hostel in Paris - they had stolen NHS Chester bed sheets, outhouses for toilets, a trough to wash your hands in, a courtyard that all rooms backed onto in which people thought it was a good idea to have sex in, a metro line running right underneath it, and then they tried not to return our passports until 8am ('policy') even though we had to be at the airport to get home by then! Hilarious place though, looking back!


Sian! What! That is the craziest story I've ever heard. Definitely submit it.


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post Jul 3 2009, 04:59 AM
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I can still remember the SMELL of those awful toilets in China in Beijng.
We were on a tour, the smell of the toilets was terrible.

We were at the Temple of Heaven, and we were walking and walking and there were no toilets at all. Sudenly we understood that we were approaching them!
They were terrible. They can never be forgotten I'm sure by anyone.
And I am curious to see, if other TP members will mention this here.


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