to think Staycation means holidaying at home, not in your home country?

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I am seeing articles everywhere for the last few weeks - what to pack for a staycation , what to wear for a staycation, where to go for a staycation etc etc.
Staycation is a jokey euphemism for staying at home during your time off, surely? A bit like saying I'm going to Costa Back Garden, or Shaynoo etc
When did it become meaning having a holiday in Britain? (If you live in Britain!)
That's just called going on holiday... isn't it?

YABU- staycation means a holiday in the country you live in
YANBU- staycation DEFINITELY means staying at home not going somewhere

My understanding of a staycation is holidaying in your own country. Not staying in your home.

Its always been used to mean staying at home during your time off round here.

I always understood it to be staying in the same country not staying at home.

Yanbu! It's been bugging me too.

It does seem very odd that a holiday in your own country needs any special name, it is just a holiday or vacation. A staycation suggests you are staying so not going anywhere.

Yes. I thought it meant staying at home and doing a few things in your own home/village/town.
Going away is a holiday!

I'd understand if to be staying at home. Plenty of people go on holiday in their own country - it's not a staycation though.

I can't vote because I'm on the app, but I agree OP. The clue is in the name and staycationing to me means you're at home. A holiday is a holiday regardless if it's in UK or abroad.

Thanks shroedinger- I just found that when I googled... but Collins dictionary says it can be either at home or home country
I think it's one of those words that has had the meaning change.

For me staycation has always meant staying in the same country for a holiday.

It doesn't have to be far from your home, for example camping, but it definitely means going away from home.

I would use iit as staying in your home country.

It prob means both though.

I always think of it as having a few day’s off work and just doing things at home or close to the area you live

I think it can mean either really

There are quite a few people who never or very rarely go overseas for holidays, it does feel somewhat insulting towards them as if their holidays don't count somehow.

Staycation is holiday at home.
Holiday in the UK is just that.

Interesting that the people voting are far more in favour of it meaning home country than staying at home than people posting.

Shaynoo?? Chez nous.

I think it's a holiday in your own country - bloody hate the word either way 🙄

I think you’re right it has changed meaning.

Definitely means staying at home. My dc who are ages 9 and below have never left the UK. They absolutely have been on plenty of holidays.

I'm sure that it meant staying at home, until a couple of years ago. I'm sure it wasn't even a word until about 5 years ago! (or maybe I just hadn't heard of it).

Well- exactly oldboots!
When I was a child hardly anyone we knew could go abroad for a holiday. It's a bit much saying our week in Suffolk didn't count, despite my parents saving all year for it, and looking forward to it from Christmas onward.

I thought it meant staying at home

Yes @ThroughThickAndThin01, exactly that. If you write Shaynoo, people don't twig immediately you're not off to somewhere hot

I work in the FMCG industry but work with Leisure customers

I first started hearing about staycation around 2008 in the crash and it was used by insight companies to refer to those holidaying in the UK. This led to more spend with companies like Butlins, Haven, more money spent at cinemas and legoland etc.

But I've heard it also used interchangeably with staying at home more recently!

Not sure if that helps as I guess it's not clear cut!!