What’s your favorite city to travel to?

[97guns]

Just curious if you have a favorite city or country to travel to and if you go there often. The wife and I love Hong Kong, it’s our favorite place to visit, I’ve only taken my wife there 1 time but I’ve been there 3 times, we want to go again maybe this summer when we’ll be going back to Thailand.

 

[Gumby]

Italy. We've been 7 times in the last 10 years. The only reason we didn't go the past two years was due to the young wife having foot surgery one year and knee surgery the next. We plan many more trips there in retirement.

 

[gerntz]

I enjoy walking. So the next town over.

 

[Car-Guy]

Foreign locations (to me), probably Singapore and London (they both speak English, well, sort of.)

US locations, San Francisco and Las Vegas.... Any maybe New York, but they don't speak the same English as I do.

 

[athena53]

Based on number of times I've been there I'd say Edinburgh, although I could easily be persuaded to return to Vienna, Budapest, Reykjavik or London. Returning to Edinburgh in September.

 

[Nemo2]

So many......Budapest, Krakow, Sofia, Malaga, Genoa, Trieste, Thessaloniki, (many years ago I would have added Aleppo, but that's done), Barcelona, Porto, Dublin...........ah, what the hell, most all of them!

 

[NoiseBoy]

After I received my 4th week of vacation at megacorp I resolved to start using my time off to travel more. Initially I planned on visiting one US and one European city each year. Lately, I've been making two trips to Europe. I would happily return to every city that I've visited with one exception where I feel as though I've seen what there was to see in the week I was there.

I would gladly return to:
Kyiv - very cheap for us gringos with dollars and lots to see and eat
London - so much related history and they sort of speak English
Munich - impossible to get a bad beer anywhere
NYC - MMoA, 'nuff said
Paris - more Impessionist art than anywhere else in the world
Rome - something ancient on pretty much every block
Washington DC - world class museums that are almost all free!

Since I am still working, I want to get some measure of rest and relaxation on my trips, so for me that means minimizing the actual traveling that I do. I like to rent hotel rooms with kitchenettes or Airbnb apartments and just settle in for the week. It also means visiting cities with good public transportation so I don't have to deal with driving and parking a car in a foreign city. I'm looking at Athens or possibly Istanbul in May.

 

[kcowan]

Paris, Nice, Istanbul...

Gumby says the city of Italy. Is that in Kansas?
Seriously it is a tough choice: Positano, Rome, Bellagio...

 

[Koogie]

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford"

 

[TrvlBug]

So hard but if I had to pick just one, Paris without a doubt. We go about every 3-5 years and are overdue. Maybe this Sept when we will be going to Europe.

 

[Midpack]

Foreign - London, Florence, Tokyo
USA - Nantucket, Napa, Austin
Places I’d like to visit - New Zealand, China

 

[Alan]

Australia, been there 3 times, the first 2 times for a month each, the last time for 5 months. Pity it is such a long way away.

Now that we are back in England we have been enjoying revisiting some of our favorite local cities, Edinburgh, London, York, Durham, Whitby plus many more.

Recently we went to Stratford-on-Avon for the first time and are already planning a trip back very soon. Next month we have a trip to Bath and Salisbury booked, places we have never been, and we are determined to visit more highly recommended cities that we have never been to in the UK.

 

[Ronstar]

I’m a history nut - so for me it’s a tie between London and Washington DC.

 

[Bestwifeever]

Based on number of times I've been there I'd say Edinburgh, although I could easily be persuaded to return to Vienna, Budapest, Reykjavik or London. Returning to Edinburgh in September.

We went to Edinburgh for the first time last spring and it immediately became my favorite city ever, and we travel a lot.

 

[FIREmenow]

Can't beat Stockholm in the summer - at least when I was traveling there frequently in the '90s.

 

[DFA]

Ireland.

 

[Bamaman]

As perpetual European travelers, we have found Budapest as a new favorite cjty. their ruin bars are the greatest honky thinks in the world. Kind of like Praue but much cheaper place to visit. Recently, we have visited Rome and Vienna.

Getting ready to hit Paris and London before flying over to Dublin for car trip.

 

[Meadbh]

Ireland.

But which city?

I’m from Ireland, and I prefer the rural areas. But if I have to pick a city, it must be Cork, my hometown.

 

[Alan]

Ireland.

+1

Been there 3 times for a total of 8 weeks. My favorite city was Dublin (sorry Meadbh but we find the night life in Dublin to be much better than Cork).

We prefer the rural areas and of the areas we have stayed we enjoyed Donegal the best but to be quite honest they are all awesome.

 

[Nemo2]

I liked Anuradhapura, (wasn't big on Singapore and/or Hong Kong....it was 55 and 53 years ago respectively that I visited.....too many people then...worse now)......a zillion smaller towns on the like list, and, Insha'allah, more to come.

Madras...(now Chennai)...was interesting when I was there....ah, there's something to enjoy (just about) everywhere. Durban was OK too.

 

[Gumby]

Gumby says the city of Italy. Is that in Kansas?

Some of us actually read the article, not just the headline.

Just curious if you have a favorite city or country to travel to and if you go there often.

To be fair, however, I chose "Italy" because I could not pick just one city.

 

[NW-Bound]

Too many to list. Most of the places we visited in Europe, we do not mind going back to. Same in the US. But the city that we have been to the most is Seattle and the surrounding area. Too many times in my life to recount. I guess because it is more accessible and I also like the Puget Sound area.

Quite a few times, my wife got free air tickets that were going to expire, and we wanted to use them. Did not think of a new place to go. So, Seattle it is. From there, we could drive to Vancouver too.

If we lived on the East Coast, we would go to Europe more often. The flight is too long from where we are. I guess East Coasteners going to Hawaii suffer the same ordeal.

 

[anethum]

I adore Paris, and I've probably been there over 20 times. I always find new things to see and do, and I enjoy wandering around the city. It is actually relatively compact compared to London or NY. There always seem to be interesting exhibitions going on. I have friends there, which helps, but I loved Paris before I knew anyone there.

Other cites I like a lot include Mexico City, Oaxaca, & Penang. In the USA, San Francisco would probably be at the top of my list.

 

[pb4uski]

Sydney, Barcelona, Venice and Edinburgh

 

[Helen]

So hard but if I had to pick just one, Paris without a doubt. We go about every 3-5 years and are overdue.

You go to Paris as often as I have colonoscopies!