# Cities that are worth multiple visits. ANd which ones are non **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 8, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078 "2014-11-08T16:53:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/1 "2014-11-08T16:53:43Z")
Which cities are IYE, worth visiting again and again and why.The obvious, London, NY, Paris are on one side in the multi-visits category. Others (where I have gone) include Istanbul, Philadelphia, Dubai, Lahore, Milan. All contain, culture, history and character which makes them worth multiple visits for me One visit is enough: Athens, Atlanta, DC, Manchester, Cardiff, Rome, Geneva, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Riyadh. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/2 "2014-11-08T17:05:36Z")
One visit: Dallas, Tampa, Columbus (OH), Cleveland, Indianapolis, Austin,Albuquerque, San Diego, Atlanta Multi visits, Las Vegas, Chicago, San Francisco Not even worth a visit: Phoenix, Miami, Orlando ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/3 "2014-11-08T17:10:28Z")
Typos in the title. Mods, could you please fix! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/4 "2014-11-08T17:15:26Z")
Worth it: the OP’s three, plus Vienna, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, Porto, Portland, Seattle, Anchorage (because of what you can see in a day’s drive from there), WDC, Billings (same reason as Anchorage), Santa Fe (same reason), San Francisco. Probably others I’m forgetting. Once is enough: Miami, NOLA, any place in Texas, Helsinki, Oslo, Frankfurt, LA, Juneau, Fairbanks, Whitehorse, Dawson Creek (BC), Quebec, Des Moines, The Hague, Warsaw, Moscow, Sofia, Bucharest, Hamburg, Pretoria, Bamako, Kampala, Cairo, Tunis, Las Vegas (once was too many). No offense to anybody with a soft spot for those towns. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/5 "2014-11-08T18:54:16Z")
Wow, people hate Miami and I’ve been looking to visit there as a winter escape. What is wrong with it? ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/6 "2014-11-08T19:13:29Z")
There’s pretty much nothing to do there, traffic is horrible during winter and most things are spread pretty far away. Rude elderly snowbirds from the Northeast and Canada. Miami Beach is full of pretentious restaurants, bars, and nightclubs. The beaches are full of annoying posing idiots. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/7 "2014-11-09T04:52:34Z")
What are the criteria? I’d go back to Athens or Rome in a second. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/8 "2014-11-09T05:03:01Z")
One visit: Dresden, Leipzig, Olomouc ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/9 "2014-11-09T05:15:35Z")
> [@susan](#): > > What are the criteria? I’d go back to Athens or Rome in a second. It’s admittedly subjective. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/10 "2014-11-09T05:16:55Z")
Multiple: Istanbul, Hong Kong, Esfahan, Sana’a, Beirut Once: Bratislava, Cochin, Hargeisa, Khartoum, Samarkand Once is too many: Bucharest, Las Vegas ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/11 "2014-11-09T05:23:27Z")
One visit: Indianapolis, LA, San Antonio, New York (I know I’m in the minority here), Columbus, Cleveland, St Louis, Kansas City Kansas, Ann Arbor, Akita, Yokohama, Milwaukee. Worth multiple visits: Denver, Madison, Tokyo, Kyoto, Aspen, Bloomington, Seattle, Boston, Philly ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/12 "2014-11-09T05:24:21Z")
Once: Lund Not even once: Malmö ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/13 "2014-11-09T05:31:59Z")
Multiple visits: Chicago, New Orleans, Clarksdale (MS), Holly Springs (MS), Kyoto, Srinigar (India) … One-time-only – I can’t think of one! I always want to go to new places and then revisit them 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/14 "2014-11-09T05:39:32Z")
> [@Atomic\_Mama](#): > > Multiple visits: … Clarksdale (MS), Holly Springs (MS)… Clarksdale, Mississippi - population ~18,000? Holly Springs - population ~8,000? I must know :). ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/15 "2014-11-09T12:54:00Z")
Multiple: London (UK). ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/16 "2014-11-09T16:16:20Z")
How can you dis Albuquerque? Where else do you get to participate in the Breaking Bad weekend? We got it all–gangs, traffic problems, poor public transit, coyotes (okay, the coyotes are nothing compared to an idiotic city council. We need to start electing coyotes.) Cities I’d visit again? Chicago, just to see if it’s changed in the past 40 years. New York, just because. Covington KY just because it’s weird looking and Taos NM just because it’s weird. Not a city, but I’d visit Salt Lick KY because the Frostee Freeze has some of the best damn diner food I’ve ever had. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/17 "2014-11-09T16:38:39Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > One visit is enough: … DC … Really? We were there for a week year before last, and only had time to visit half of the ‘highlights’…and that’s not even considering all of the lesser known attractions. The only city I’ve been to that I really have no desire to ever set foot in again was Phoenix, AZ. I’m sure there are many wonderful things to be experienced there, but I didn’t notice any. ---
**Author:** ![iljitsch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/77aa72/32.png) [@iljitsch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iljitsch)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/18 "2014-11-09T20:29:17Z")
I’m visiting Honolulu this week, and Waikiki definitely qualifies as “not even once”. How on earth did this place become a tourist trap? Hopefully the rest of the city is better. Any opinions on Madrid? ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/19 "2014-11-09T20:40:13Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > How can you dis Albuquerque? Where else do you get to participate in the Breaking Bad weekend? We got it all–gangs, traffic problems, poor public transit, coyotes (okay, the coyotes are nothing compared to an idiotic city council. We need to start electing coyotes.) > > Cities I’d visit again? Chicago, just to see if it’s changed in the past 40 years. New York, just because. Covington KY just because it’s weird looking and Taos NM just because it’s weird. > > Not a city, but I’d visit Salt Lick KY because the Frostee Freeze has some of the best damn diner food I’ve ever had. My grandfather had a farm in Salt Lick. I’ve been there dozens of times. He sold it and moved to Sandy Hook in the early 80s. While visiting him was fun I never really looked at Salt Lick as a travel destination. Multiple visits: Budapest, just really loved it and will go back and stay a week or two some day. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078/20 "2014-11-09T21:16:56Z")
Would go back: Stockholm, Prague, Vancouver Would not: Rome, Munich, Calgary, New York, Philadelphia [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-that-are-worth-multiple-visits-and-which-ones-are-non/704078.md?page=2)