To say that a staycation is NOT a holiday in the UK??

[BrieAndChilli]

A staycation is where you sleep in your OWN home but take time off work and go on lots of day trips etc

Going elsewhere in the uk and staying in a cottage/caravan/hotel is an ACTUAL HOLIDAY!!!!!!

...That’s all, as you were.

*[Message from MNHQ: Hey OP, we've edited the title of your thread, as requested. Though we'd have to say that the original 'starvation' was more amusing...]

I’ve been on a starvation before. Went to France 20yrs who as a vegan. It did not go well. I’m with you, OP. Maybe you should take a packed lunch.

Known as 'not past the letterbox' holiday to my dad.

What would sitting in a caravan parked in your drive be called? If you didn't eat it might be a "starvation staycation"

So a staycation is just living in your house and not going to work?

Not quite, we do it as a holiday mode as in beach or daytrips each day, cocopops for breakfast, meals out most nights so I get a week off cooking (ish), kids staying up a bit later, more board games than usual. No housework, DIY, paperwork etc.

As you'd do a SC holiday in the UK basically, but sleeping in your own beds and putting some of the £1000 or so you've saved in accommodation costs into daytrips and eating out.

We had a ‘staycation’ a few years ago. There had been an incident at the West Country cottage we had booked so it was cancelled an hour before we set off. Insurance reimbursed the cost of the cottage but it was August so no chance of booking something else. We spent the two weeks sleeping at home but went out (nearly) every day on trips, walks and mini adventures. DCs were 8 and 3 and we had a great time.

I was being a slight arse there. 'Staycation' to me means fecking half term. A school holiday when you can't afford to stay overnight anywhere, so you just do day trips.

It's bloody well more expensive to have a week selfcatering in the UK than it is to fly & stay with family in Spain for two weeks for me & DC, and we go out a lot more in Spain.

i thought the term meant a holiday in the uk as in stayhing in your country

We live in a lovely touristy area and love a staycation!

Well, we're too skint to go away anywhere so have nice days out. We get free entry onto Butlins, we go to the beach, we take packed lunches a bit further afield. I particularly love Lynton and Lynmouth, with the free flood museum, the cliff railway, the pitch and putt.

i thought the term meant a holiday in the uk as in stayhing in your country

No that’s a HOLIDAY. We are going to a self catering cottage in Devon in a couple of weeks..... it’s not a staycation we will definitely be on holiday....

I hate the word, but it really doesn’t work in British English anyway, we tend to say holiday, not vacation so staycation is a bit ridiculous. I hate the term “daycation” even more. It’s a fucking day out.

Oh dear another MN faux pas I have committed in the last 24hrs then by referring to a modest upcoming holiday in UK as a staycation!

I'll be inviting you along to pay for it next

According to wikipedia: A staycation (a portmanteau of "stay" and "vacation"), also known as a holistay (a portmanteau of "holiday" and "stay"), is a period in which an individual or family stays home and participates in leisure activities within driving distance, sleeping in their own beds at night.

A holistay....

Yes sorry massive autocorrect fail in the original title!! I’d corrected it in the post but forgot the title!!!

It’s not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but it really irritates me, it’s like people aren’t saying if you can’t afford to go abroad you’re not having a proper holiday!!

You do have to actually do holiday stuff for it to be a staycation though eg day trips, meals out, no work and no real housework etc

although I would go on a starvation holiday if it was a guaranteed stone or two loss!!

Prefer the old heading!

a period in which an individual or family stays home and participates in leisure activities within driving distance, sleeping in their own beds at night.

Thats just some of our evenings or most weekends. So I can say we went on a staycation (or a holistay!) after school on tuesday because we went iceskating and then out for dinner? Thats just living life at home, just staying home and going out to do stuff, nobody stays home all summer holidays and doesnt leave the house ever to do anything.

A holiday is time off your regular working schedule hence the term public holiday.

I've always understood it as a holiday in the UK!

Which, incidentally, is just plain Not A Holiday IMO.

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I didn't go abroad until I was 24. Had some lovely holidays in Cornwall and Wales as a kid though. Bit offended to think people might think of them as staycations when they were magical adventures to me.

Forestdad your modest UK holiday is someone else's big trip of the year.

so dictionary states it is a holiday in uk wiki doesnt

that helps althogh wiki can be edited

sorry looks like it can be both

upside no they don't, but if it's a dedicated week with the whole family together (which is rare for us as we tag team leave to cover school hols normally), and you are setting out to give yourselves a break together it takes on a different feel. A break from the cooking is crucial to me because if we paid out for accommodation we'd probably have to SC.

For us it's partly money and partly that DH hates sleeping in other beds. It's trying to have the good bits of a holiday without the downside of paying £100 a night and sleeping in a strange bed. There is more to a holiday than sleeping in a different bed.

If you feel you can get the good bits of a holiday into after school on a Tuesday, then crack on.