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

@BreconBeBuggered

Whatever it means - and I lean towards OP's interpretation - it can fuck off. Staycation my arse. Nonsense marketing drivel.

i agree

It is a stupid word

YANBU. Staycation means going nowhere but doing stuff at home to feel like you are on a break. So having picnics and camping in the garden, going to local beauty or tourist spots and playing cards/dancing in the kitchen/having party food or takeaways etc.

Holidaying in Britain is a UKation (may have just made that up )

To me staycation always meant day trips from home. The other is a holiday.i think It does demean holidaying in the country where you live.

However the thing I know about languages, particularly English is that words change meaning and no word DEFINITELY means something. If media/holiday companies start using it in the other sense it may be annoying, but it can change/expand the use.

I don’t like the use in the new sense but I’m not so bothered that i look for a B&B I‘d avoid a website using staycation.

I always thought "going to Argate (aka Our gate) was the phrase used for staying at home. Staycation is fairly new.

I'm going on holiday to Cornwall. That is not a staycation otherwise I would be staying at home.

Pre Corona I would have said sleeping at home but going on day trips but I've noticed that UK holidays are called staycations now which I find odd too.

It’s both. Either holidaying at home or holidaying in your home country and not abroad.

Totally agree with you OP

YANBU, that's how I remember staycation first being used, during the last recession. Meaning, you stayed in your home, but went to local attractions and restaurant, treating it as if you were on holiday.

Growing up, we didn't go on holiday abroad, it was always in the UK, so I don't see it as being any lesser than holidaying elsewhere, or needing a different word to describe it - after all, it's really not that strange a thing to do.

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i have never been outside the uk and i am 58, so all the holidays i have had must be staycations, not a great fan of the sun or busy beaches, when son was little we went to places like pontins, i would rather spend my money in the uk as i think the country needs it more this year than ever x

I have never heard it to mean "going to another part of the UK" and if you see articles in the media on "best places to visit during a staycation" they are, I assume, aimed at locals ("3 castles on your doorstep; Local attractions you've missed and why you should go now").
In WW2 they were called "Holidays At Home". They aren't new.

YADNBU OP. As others have said staycation is about making the most of touristy stuff near you whilst STAYing at home for your annual leave.

It's really snobby to use staycation for holidays in the home country, it may not be intentional but the inference as a result is that those who always holiday in their own country have never had proper holidays. Our DC would disagree. They have not yet been out of the UK, but have definitely had interesting and varied holidays away from home.

I'd take it to mean having a holiday in my own house. If I had a week in Devon or the Lake District it would be a holiday.

It’s staying at home and maybe doing some nice things locally that you wouldn’t normally do

It’s a new word that really annoys me. Refers to staying in home country for holiday rather than going abroad. Why not just say ‘going to name of place’ or ‘staying in name of country’? Aaaargh!!

When I first heard the term a few years ago it meant staying at home when on annual leave but it gradually seems to have changed to mean staying in your home country. If I have a holiday in my home country it involves going abroad so it doesn't really make sense to me.

According to Wikipedia "A staycation, or holiday, is a period in which an individual or family stays home and participates in leisure activities within driving distance of their home and does not require overnight accommodation."

And Wikipedia is always correct.

To me it means staying at home and visiting the local area. (Not that I actually use such a wanky word).
I've noticed that to my (mostly single parent) low income friends a "staycation" is staying at home.
To my millennial/married/higher income friends a staycation would be a uk holiday. They are the people who had a 'mini-moon' in the UK for a few days after getting married and then a 'proper' honeymoon abroad later in the year
I've been asked more than once when I'm taking my DC on a 'real' holiday (15 and 13 and never been abroad).

Surely you would call taking a holiday in your own home, 'taking time off work' just as using up your holiday allowance doesn't mean you're going anywhere. The need for the words vacation (which is American for holiday) and staycation mean that you're taking a holiday somewhere away from home, be it in same country or abroad.

It’s a holiday at home. Then there’s the people who say ‘No, where’re not going anywhere this year, really, just a week away in Devon/Cornwall camping/second home. To me that is my annual holiday!

I think it’s a bit of both. We’re having a Staycation in August, some days out, some days at home doing nothing much and possibly a weekend away overnight across 10 days of annual leave.

YANBU! Staycation definitely - at least until fairly recently? - used to mean staying at home and going on day trips etc.

Hence the 'stay' part - you don't stay overnight anywhere else.

@OddBoots

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.

And yes, this. A holiday is a holiday whether or not you cross a border!