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

People dismissing a 'staycation' as nothing special also diminish the treats of days out, they are a real luxury for us. I don't think my children have been to a theme park in the last 8 years and probably only a couple or three times to the cinema, they are so expensive.

It definitely always used to mean taking time off work to stay at home but do holiday-type things, like days out, during the days. I heard of it long before the 2008 crash, but probably from my friends in Canada.

Means staying at home to me.

I’ve only ever known it to be staying in home country.

I’ve never used the word but always believe it to mean staying in Britain for your holiday.

For us staying at home is called “Hameldaeme” a good Glaswegian word.

2pink that’s interesting. I’m in England. If I were going to Scotland that would be a vacation. So for me My staycation (also never used the word) is a little closer to home.
However I live in central London and have stayed in hotels central for break/occasion and would never call that a staycation nor indeed even a city break.
Hmmm

Yes, to me staycation means staying literally at your house. We have 1-2 UK holidays a year. I would never call them a 'staycation'. I'd just say I'm going on holiday.

I don't see a 'holiday' as being a foreign thing. But we've actually never had a family holiday abroad (been to see my family in my home country, but wouldn't really describe it as a 'holiday'). Dh and I both travel for work and other reasons. I've taken my oldest abroad for a weekend. But our family holidays are always in the UK - holiday cottage, camping, etc. I wouldn't ever call it a 'staycation' though.

I thought it meant staying at home and then doing days out and other things you may do on holiday but you are based at home.

To me it means staying at home but having days out to the nearest beach, local attractions etc.

To me it’s staying local to the area you live. A holiday is anywhere that you don’t usually spend time, even if that’s the same country.

When I was young there was almost no option for going abroad, so going on holiday meant travelling to somewhere else in the UK about 90% of the time. The idea of travelling 14 hours to Scotland and claiming that you'd "stayed" near home would be ridiculous.

I always thought it meant staying at home!

I have never encountered it being used to mean 'holidaying in one's home country', but if I do it will also mean 'pretentious tosser' in that context.

When it became an annoying media and advertising phrase it was to refer to a holiday without going abroad

Given that it's from US/Canada, which are both large countries, then the idea that it could mean in your own country is strange. You can get an 11-hour flight and still be in the same country - is that a staycation? I live in the US btw, and it definitely does NOT mean staying in your own country, but staying at home and doing vacation type things like days/meals out. People would think I was insane if I went to Hawaii for 2 weeks and claimed to have staycationed. It's a trip of a lifetime for most people.

I think the 'in your own country' bit is a British addition for people who moan when they can't go abroad.

I’m English not from the other side of the Atlantic. Therefore I neither take vacations or staycations. I holiday.
Although I might vacate a property when I move.

A jokey term for not going away on holiday and spending time at home doing holidayish things is what it means to me.

Ok @DisgruntledGuineaPig I have never seen or heard anyone use it to refer to staying at their parents' house! I would call that "visiting" tbh.

Staycation is staying at home or nearby area. Visiting any other part of the British Isles is a proper holiday to me .

Staycation is when you are on holiday, but stay at home.

A holiday in the UK away from home is a holiday

Having never used the word I feel I have been infected by the stupid media stories of where to go on ‘staycation’ - this has lead me to think it means in My home country but NOT at home.
I think before this year I understood it to mean to stay at home.
So the virus of media usage has got me. Damn.

It has changed meaning, but the new meaning is stupid (and insulting to those who holiday in the UK). A holiday in the UK is still a proper holiday. A Londoner travelling to the Highlands will be travelling further than if they'd gone to France.

Starvation SHOULD mean taking annual leave but staying at home.

Staycation not starvation!

Starvation SHOULD mean taking annual leave but staying at home.

😂😂😂 You are not wrong there. It would be hard to concentrate when starving😂

I'm 100% with you OP and it annoys me when people (the media usually) use it to refer to a UK holiday

A UK holiday is still a holiday!

A staycation means staying at home but enjoying days out and timed off work/school

It annoys me in a similar way to people referring to school Christmas or Easter holidays as 'half term'

Staycation = staying at home, but doing visits to interesting places - like you would when on holiday

Holiday = staying somewhere other than your home

I remember going camping in the UK every year growing up. That was definitely NOT a staycation. Which I would have preferred.