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Favourite "staycation" location?

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ILikeChickend · 14/03/2025 19:24

What's everyone's favourite UK/Ireland place to visit?

I'm a Londonder but outside of London I love Edinburgh. I love the city and think it's really beautiful.

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ItsCalledAConversation · 14/03/2025 19:27

West Dorset/Devon: Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Seatown

Purbeck

Roseland Peninsula/Portscatho

West Wittering

Chipping Camden and surroundings (Broadway)

Peak District - Hope Valley, Baslow etc

Nourishinghandcream · 14/03/2025 19:34

Isle Of Purbeck and the Cotswolds.

Live in one and visit the other regularly. Have considered moving to the other but know I would then be coming back all the time.
Am currently enjoying having the best of both worlds.

Unexpectedlysinglemum · 14/03/2025 19:34

Cornwall

Booooooom · 14/03/2025 19:34

Pembrokeshire

Bigfishes · 14/03/2025 19:37

Staycation means staying at home for your holiday doesn’t it? Rather than a UK holiday?

marshmallowfinder · 14/03/2025 19:39

Staycation is when you stay at home and go on day trips nearby. You mean a British holiday, surely?

marshmallowfinder · 14/03/2025 19:40

marshmallowfinder · 14/03/2025 19:39

Staycation is when you stay at home and go on day trips nearby. You mean a British holiday, surely?

Sorry, including Ireland/NI you said, so not just British. UK and Ireland holiday.

Normandy144 · 14/03/2025 19:43

Northumberland. Beautiful beaches and quiet compared to other English coastal regions.

KnickerlessParsons · 14/03/2025 19:43

West Wales
Tenby, Saundersfoot, New Quay, St David’s Solva etc

TheCountessofLocksley · 14/03/2025 19:53

Bigfishes · 14/03/2025 19:37

Staycation means staying at home for your holiday doesn’t it? Rather than a UK holiday?

Can mean either
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/staycation_n?tl=true.

staycation, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary

staycation, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/staycation_n?tl=true

TheCountessofLocksley · 14/03/2025 19:57

Richmond (the North Yorks one)
Masham also N Yorks
the Yorkshire Dales (especially Wensleydale) and the N Yorks Moors
Mid Wales - Aberystwyth, Devils Bridge Aberaeron, Pump Sant
Anglesey
Edinburgh
York
Lincoln

Hazel665 · 14/03/2025 20:13

Lyme Regis/Charmouth, Swanage, North Yorkshire Coast (Filey, Bempton, Flamborough, Scarborough).

KrazyboutKillian · 14/03/2025 20:14

Newcastle and tynemouth , love the vibe , the people , the beautiful beach

ILikeChickend · 14/03/2025 20:16

I also really liked Devon

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Sinkintotheswamp · 14/03/2025 20:20

A staycation is staying in your house and having lots of days out and meals and generally chilling for a week.

Staying anywhere else is a holiday.

PenneyFouryourthoughts · 14/03/2025 20:23

New Forest
Isle of Wight

beetr00 · 14/03/2025 20:23

Bigfishes · 14/03/2025 19:37

Staycation means staying at home for your holiday doesn’t it? Rather than a UK holiday?

e v e r y time on MN, just why? @ILikeChickend obviously meant staying in the British Isles.

mrspick · 14/03/2025 20:28

Last year I stayed in Looe in Cornwall. Visited Polperro and Clovelly in Devon. It is stunning down there and plenty to do such as the Eden Project. 100% recommend.

FrozenFeathers · 14/03/2025 20:30

Bigfishes · 14/03/2025 19:37

Staycation means staying at home for your holiday doesn’t it? Rather than a UK holiday?

Yeah, exactly!

If you vacation within your own country it's a domestic holiday.

MissyB1 · 14/03/2025 20:31

Padstow
New Forest

Cabbagefamily · 14/03/2025 20:33

northumbria coast.
suffolk coast.

ILikeChickend · 14/03/2025 20:39

I also really really enjoyed Cardiff.

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tarheelbaby · 14/03/2025 20:44

We've had good times in:
Brighton - a town ready to party
Cambridge (DH's uni town)
Bath
Seaton (short walk from Beer - the pretty one) - we spent a week here in the summer; made a day trip to Exeter
York
Penrith - this was due to an unrepeatable combination of friend's 50th, Easter snow, Hadrian's wall, Gretna Green on our anniversary (oh, the irony)

(I also think of a 'staycation' as not going abroad.)

Arran2024 · 14/03/2025 20:49

The south lakes are lovely.

Echobelly · 14/03/2025 20:58

Big fans of Whitstable. Wouldn't be surprised if DH and I end up there again in our anniversary this year.