Isn't a Staycation where you stay at home?

[Karcheer]

And a holiday is a holiday whether it's in the Bahamas or Bognor?

That's my understanding too!

Yes, yes it is.

I'm so glad that I'm not the only person that finds this annoying.

Yes, you stay home so its a staycation. A week in Bognor is still a vacation.

First time I’d heard the term was in South East Asia & they refer to it as staying in a hotel in your home country - normally young couples who would normally live at home with parents.

I’ve always used it to refer to staying in your home country, mainly as we would normally travel abroad for a holiday.

Quite.

Yes, a staycation means staying at home, not having a holiday in your own country. That’s a holiday.

That's how I understand it. Surely if you're staying at a hotel or camping or somewhere away from home even if you stay in your own country then it isn't a staycation?

I understood it to be staying at home, but having days out like you're on holiday, but not staying away. 🤷

If you have to go abroad for it to be a holiday, I haven't had a holiday for more than a decade. I get away in this country a few times a year though

No, it can be used as either.

I'm in an irritable mood, but it's actually really annoying me. It seems I never actually had a holiday during my entire childhood if you take staycation to mean staying in the UK.

Language evolves - it is now widely used for a holiday in your home country.

YES and this has been driving me insane ALL SUMMER.

Thank you my people

YANBU. If you're not staying in your own home, you're on holiday. You have vacated.

Living in your own home while doing the tourist stuff is a staycation.

Yes this

I always understood that it meant you stayed at home and did day trips.

I think the message is not to go abroad personally.

So stay in your country/island whatever wherever.

Yes OP, and I shout at the radio every time I read it when the person should say Holiday. It is insulting to people who for whatever reason, do not go abroad on a holiday. It is as if our experience of holidays is being negated by people who really should have a better understanding of the English language (especially if they are broadcasters or journalists - although, sadly I think we have reached the nadir of journalistic ability and talent in the past couple of years and this crisis has not helped us out of it.).

I have found my people!

It's the snobbery isn't it? If you have to go abroad for it to be a holiday then you have zero imagination. It has been driving me mad all summer.

As a child, my holidays 2 hours up the motorway to the seaside were heaven. Not a staycation 🤷

@Annasgirl

Yes OP, and I shout at the radio every time I read it when the person should say Holiday. It is insulting to people who for whatever reason, do not go abroad on a holiday. It is as if our experience of holidays is being negated by people who really should have a better understanding of the English language (especially if they are broadcasters or journalists - although, sadly I think we have reached the nadir of journalistic ability and talent in the past couple of years and this crisis has not helped us out of it.).

Yes this, this is what I was trying to articulate

Yes absolutely.

I always thought it was when you took annual leave and had a good time while still sleeping at your own house, perhaps going on lots of day trips and eating out.
A holiday is where you go and stay elsewhere- we have been on holiday to Northumberland and Somerset this year. We are also having a staycation in October.

You are correct op!

The Oxford English Dictionary refers to it as a holiday in your home county. The word itself is a blend of stay and vacation.

Yes, staycation means not going on holiday

In a similar vein it really annoys me that the world selfie has replaced the word photograph even where the photo has clearly been taken my someone other than the person in the photo