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Holiday Plans 2025

Discussion in 'TalkCeltic Pub' started by Callum McGregor, Nov 28, 2024.

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  1. Jackie Daytona Gold Member Gold Member

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    Parts of Orlando make Pollok look like Beverly Hills.
     
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  2. Jackie Daytona Gold Member Gold Member

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    My recommendation, if you’ve done Kyoto already, is to spend more time somewhere else.

    I still like the place but crowded is an understatement. I understand that as a tourist I was contributing towards that, but by the end of my time there the large obnoxious tour groups were doing my head in. Just too many people at the more well-known sights.

    Gifu and Nagano prefectures I liked as a contrast to the bigger cities. Would love to get up to Hokkaido or south to Kyushu one day.

    For Tokyo or Osaka go to a baseball game. Good fun. Hanshin Tigers at Koshien if you want the best atmosphere, but I went to a game in the Tokyo Dome too and it was still great.

    I also took the unagi recommendation above - can confirm it was great.
     
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  3. Cena Never Give Up Gold Member

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    Tbf I always remember when I went to wrestlemania 33 the area where the stadium was is like a proper ghetto
     
  4. Jackie Daytona Gold Member Gold Member

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    I missed the train to Miami and had to get the Greyhound once.

    Being in and around the bus station there was genuinely terrifying. The ticket counter is behind a cage and you’re frisked for guns going in but the staff don’t really give a *. There was a guy doing coke off the toilet cistern and then smacking his head off the wall and repeatedly shouting at himself in the mirror, and this was at midday.
     
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    Blizzard beach or the pollok centre pool?
    All seriousness im well aware that as soon as you go a couple of miles outside the tourist bit in Orlando it can be * boyz n the hood country . Made the mistake of getting a local bus from Kissimmee to the airport . Had to change at intermodal bus station the place was genuinely terrifying in the middle of the day. Police tape outside a liquor store across the road . Stick to the beaten path now.
     
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    Probably his last line and was skint.
     
  7. Cena Never Give Up Gold Member

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    Copenhagen cancelled broken my hand
     
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    Man up.
     
  9. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    Postponed my South America trip because the date I booked is going to end up too close to when I’m going to be moving home. Will go next year instead. Had only booked a flight out to Chile and managed to get most of my money back on that so nothing lost.

    Booked flights out to Japan again instead,
    for November. Flying to Fukuoka and then going to explore Kyushu and Shikoku. Also planning to hop over to Seoul for a weekend.