Isn't a Staycation where you stay at home?

[Karcheer]

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

I bought DH a voucher from Virgin Experiences for our anniversary. It's marketed as "a two night staycation for two". Hope I didn't pay almost £200 to stay in my own house! 😂🤞🏻

YANBU

I think the terms holidays and staycation have been hijacked by the tourism industry.

I insist that a staycation is when you stay at home, but take time off work and do day trips and the kind of things you might do on holiday. To me, a holiday in the UK is still a holiday.

Agree that it's original (and correct) meaning is to stay at home whilst having days out or doing other holiday like things.

Yes. A holiday in the same country is still a holiday.

Yep

Just wondered who the feck would go abroad now. Probably many and why?

Stay home, stay safe and keep the effin virus to yourselves.

Well for now anyway.

I'm also non-plussed about people travelling afar for holidays . Just found out friends of ours (60+ no dependent children) went to France. Missed the deadline to get back without quarantine. One of them has subsequently been out for the day to work because "he needs the money". Presumably he spent more than he earned in that day travelling and staying in France!

I think the word staycation should just be banned, whatever it means.

Oh my god, yes!!!!

I only knew it as word for staying in your home country for a holiday. Staying at home and going on day trips is just going on day trips.

Staycation to me means staying in my own country.

Which I have done and enjoyed it immensely. We just don't know what is on our own doorstep.

I agree!

I think you are wrong. Staying at home is not a holiday, it's just not going to work. A staycation as I understand it means vacationing in your home country.

My understanding is that it means having a holiday while staying in your own country.

If it meant saying at home then you could just say staying at home, or it wouldn’t be an actual thing. How do you have a holiday in your own house? We don’t need a word related to having a holiday to just mean not going to work.

I am on holiday in a different part of the UK. It is a holiday, domestic tourism. It is not a staycation.

I have previously camped for a night or two in my own county and done things that I could reasonably travel to from home. That has a better argument for being a staycation, but I'd normally interpret it as daytripping while remaining based at home.

Anyway the holiday season is nigh over, so who cares.

On repeat, Staycation is a holiday that doesn't involve foreign travel.

@yolio

Anyway the holiday season is nigh over, so who cares.

On repeat, Staycation is a holiday that doesn't involve foreign travel.

I assume you mean the school summer lholidays are nearly over, people without school children can go on holiday for 52 weeks of the year and for friends of mine withoiut children September usually marks the start of holiday season for them, they very much care

I always thought a staycation was when you took time of work and had a relaxing time but didn't go anywhere over night. Driving to the highlands from London and either camping or staying in a 5 * hotel is not a staycation. Going to Cornwall for a week for the midlands is not a staycation. Taking your children to a caravan in Scarborough from Leeds is not a staycation.

Staying at home and going to Alton Towers and the local boating lake and having meals out and picnics in the park, and not going to work or having to find childcare. That is a staycation. Whatever Andi Peters says.

Agree 100%. If a staycation is a holiday away from home but still in your own country, then the term ‘holiday abroad’ is a tautology.

Yy to the PP who said we should just ban the word anyway

Yes it is OP.

There's no need for a new word for going away from home but staying in your own country, that is a holiday or vacation.

Whereas there has never really been a word for taking time off from work / daily routine for a fixed spell and having daytrips but staying at home, hence staycation.

I think what irritates me is the implication that a holiday in your own country isn't worthy of the word. Our holidays in the UK are as much holidays as those we take abroad.