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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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StMarie4me · 14/03/2025 21:00

Staycation is where you stay at home and have day trips.

Anything else is a holiday. It’s doesn’t need to be abroad to be a holiday.

PilotFish · 14/03/2025 21:02

Random question with no context?

I look forward to the Daily Mail article.

Gustavo1 · 14/03/2025 21:08

Cromer. Tip place for a uk beach holiday. Second only in my book to Cornwall. Wadebridge, Padstow, Mevagissey (sp?). Gorgeous!

Ddakji · 14/03/2025 21:09

beetr00 · 14/03/2025 20:23

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

So, a holiday in the UK. Like people have taken for years.

Port1aCastis · 14/03/2025 21:11

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.

Good choice, my DH comes from Polperro.

SirDanielBrackley · 14/03/2025 21:37

Welsh Borders (Tintern up to Oswestry).
Devon.
Galloway.
Pembrokeshire/Cardigan Bay
Isle of Wight.

ILikeChickend · 14/03/2025 21:39

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.)

I've been to both Cambridge and Oxford. I think in the summers some of the colleges rent accomodation out.

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ILikeChickend · 14/03/2025 21:41

Ddakji · 14/03/2025 21:09

So, a holiday in the UK. Like people have taken for years.

Yeh that's what I meant. I didn't mean a holiday where you stay at home

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brawhen · 14/03/2025 21:41

Ullapool & the summer isles

Doyouthinktheyknow · 14/03/2025 21:42

Peak District
Lake District
Whitby
Margate and Kent coast
Shropshire
Northumberland
Southend
Bristol

CalicoPusscat · 14/03/2025 21:58

Staycation at home: lucky enough to be near a very beautiful park with eateries and shops nearby, and am a short walk to the beach.

Within UK: I have my favourite hotel very charming faded glamour with bathtubs where I feel very relaxed, I try to go once a year

Penko25 · 14/03/2025 22:01

Devon
New Forest

Normallynumb · 14/03/2025 22:16

St Ives Cornwall

Perfectlystill · 14/03/2025 22:17

God the tedious people on this thread jibber-jabbering about the (old fashioned) meaning of staycation.

What crap lives they must lead to seek satisfaction in pathetic posts like that!

My favourite STAYCATION places are around Berwick, Derbyshire, Somerset and Liverpool

ILikeChickend · 14/03/2025 22:19

I've never been to Liverpool. I was going to go one weekend but something happened that turned my life upside down. What's it like? I like the Beatles

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Saz12 · 14/03/2025 22:38

I like going to new places. But Orkney has some amazing stuff to see, I'd go back there. London. And the Hebridies.

KrazyboutKillian · 15/03/2025 17:46

@ILikeChickend
its buzzy
if you like architecture some great building , St George’s hall , the 3 graces , the Georgian quarter
lots of places to eat (and drink ) and just win a recent award for best food
clubs and bars
shopping is ok but not brilliant tbh
waterfront and iconic ferry ride ‘ across the Mersey ‘
Albert dock
lots of Beatles stuff , Beatles museum , statues , Mathew street too

ILikeChickend · 15/03/2025 17:59

KrazyboutKillian · 15/03/2025 17:46

@ILikeChickend
its buzzy
if you like architecture some great building , St George’s hall , the 3 graces , the Georgian quarter
lots of places to eat (and drink ) and just win a recent award for best food
clubs and bars
shopping is ok but not brilliant tbh
waterfront and iconic ferry ride ‘ across the Mersey ‘
Albert dock
lots of Beatles stuff , Beatles museum , statues , Mathew street too

Thank you

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wherearemypastnames · 15/03/2025 18:01

So what is the new word for what used to be staycation ?

ItsCalledAConversation · 16/03/2025 08:35

CalicoPusscat · 14/03/2025 21:58

Staycation at home: lucky enough to be near a very beautiful park with eateries and shops nearby, and am a short walk to the beach.

Within UK: I have my favourite hotel very charming faded glamour with bathtubs where I feel very relaxed, I try to go once a year

@CalicoPusscat would you share the name of that hotel? Sounds divine x

REDB99 · 16/03/2025 08:37

The Lakes
North Yorkshire
Northumberland - stunning!

clinellwipe · 16/03/2025 08:43

Pre kids used to love staying in London.
Now would be north coast of Northern Ireland (Portrush) or Cotswolds.

CalicoPusscat · 16/03/2025 09:11

ItsCalledAConversation · 16/03/2025 08:35

@CalicoPusscat would you share the name of that hotel? Sounds divine x

I'm not sure PM is allowed again yet but I'll give it a whirl!

bruffin · 17/03/2025 19:38

Perfectlystill · 14/03/2025 22:17

God the tedious people on this thread jibber-jabbering about the (old fashioned) meaning of staycation.

What crap lives they must lead to seek satisfaction in pathetic posts like that!

My favourite STAYCATION places are around Berwick, Derbyshire, Somerset and Liverpool

Its the idiots that misused the word in the first place that changed the meaning that are tedious. Why is a holiday in the UK an less valuable than a holiday abroad.
My week in Wales is just as much a proper holiday as my holiday last week in Malta.

CatherineCawoodsbestie · 17/03/2025 20:07

Ceredigion coast - tresaith, Llangranog, Aberearon.

Cornwall - Fowey and surronds, Falmouth, Bude

Devon - Dartmouth and Dittisham

North York moors and coast

Cities - Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Bristol.

On the bucket list - Northumberland, Yorkshire Dales, Haworth and Worth valley, Belfast and giants causeway.

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