Staycation vs Abroad

[LinnettdeBelleforte]

So to get me through the long, depressing winter (I'm in Scotland) I am planning a holiday for early March: I am trying to decide between a staycation in the South of England or somewhere slightly further afield (Southern Europe) I haven't been down South in ages, and I have a yen to visit London and the South coast again: does anyone local have any recommendations for pretty villages that might be nice to visit, or am I really better off going to Spain and saving England for summer?

I'm not staying at home, but I am staying in the UK. If you are just staying at home, that isn't any kind of vacation. That's just called 'being off work'.

Thank you for the advice and the solidarity! I think I have fixed upon Southern Spain for March and later in the year for my staycation (sorry not sorry, that's what I call it😂)

You're off work and you behave like you're on holiday, having day trips out and perhaps eating in cafes more than you'd normally do. In the summer you might spend time in the garden or local parks.

It came from the credit crunch in 2008? when people couldn't afford holidays but wanted a nice break on a budget. Rather than pack up your stuff and stay in accommodation elsewhere in the country, that could well not be cheaper than going abroad, you stayed at home instead, so saving the cost of travel and a cottage or whatever, and visited local places or those up to an hour or two away that you might not have been to before or liked and wanted to go to again.

Ah, thank you. I genuinely wasn't familiar with the term, as I say, I heard it first during the pandemic when it was certainly used to mean UK holiday. I think since the pandemic as well the idea of being restricted to home doesn't seem very vacation like as we were basically all under house arrest for about two years!

I understood you meant a UK holiday. Some PPs are just being obtuse I think.

Would you budget stretch to a few days in London then a Eurostar to the South of France?

Wow, that's an amazing idea! Thanks very much, I will think about that one. And yes, I think people are just annoyed about a changing definition. I can get that, there are some meaning changes that annoy me, but 'staycation' is hardly a very old term, as even the previous definition only dates back to 2008 or so (according to the PP)