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

I'd always thought it meant holidaying in your own country. I guess it's like the word holiday too. Which can be annual leave (maybe spent at home) or a trip to some place, whether staycation or overseas.

For me staycation means fine off work but staying at home - I would call a holiday in the UK a holiday and consider it on a par with a holiday abroad .
That said I’m aware others use staycation to refer to a holiday in the UK not at home .

Has anyone else got this ad on the thread too?! 😂

@excuseforfights

Staycation definitely means holidaying in your home country.

During lockdown it may have taken the meaning of holidaying in your home but it’s not the accepted meaning.

Nope, the latter meaning is a lot older and many people think it's the standard definition.

"Staycation" is a play on "vacation," in which you vacate your home. As you know, that's an American term. And Americans don't need to go abroad for vacations to see an exotic landscape, nor to warm their chilly bones in the winter. As one wise poster noted, it would be ludicrous to suggest that a Texan in New England would not consider her sojourn, a 2,000 mile, 30 hour one-way car trip, a "staycation." The term most certainly comes from the U.S., and most certainly means staying in your home.

Wrt 'Shaynoo'...YABVU (and I sincerely hope you're joking!)

OP has already said that it's a jocular way of slightly 'obscuring' chez nous - like the 'Argate' upthread - she doesn't really think that that's how you spell it. If you send somebody a message "We're having a holiday in Shaynoo" this year, they might reply with something like "Ooh, nice - is that in Thailand?" before realising/being told and then silly hilarity presumably ensues

So... if I fly 3,000 miles to California it's still a staycation because I haven't left my country. But if I then drive over the border to Mexico for a few hours to do some shopping it's no longer a staycation?

I live on a tiny Caribbean island 12 miles by 22 miles and due to COVID-19, our borders are closed and have been since March.

We call a staycation when we get to go and stay on the other side of the island! Given the majority of us head to the US for vacation or weekends away shopping etc, we'll definitely not be doing that for a while.

So that's what my Facebook is full of. Everyone staycationing in the other side of the island or on seven mile beach. If I take a week off and spend it at home I know full well I'm going to be running errands etc so I call them Pottering weeks.

stroke no need for such a post ! Although marginally interesting to see usage across the world I’m not sure anyone asked for an unexpected image of Caribbean islanders struggling with staycations.

Obvs you’re in the same Covid boat as all of us in lots of ways but bloody hell that image was wonderful. Central London here and fervently hoping I’ll see a beach again sometime. Completely privileged to have gone to the Maldives January. Going nowhere for some time.
Stay well !

Ha @HeronLanyon that was not my intention at all, and pity is not sought! 😄

Not only are we clear of COVID, we've only lost patient 0, who arrived here on a cruise ship and that's how it spread.
We locked down hard in March, a number of weeks before UK, closed our borders, closed everything. It has been a trying few months home schooling, working from home etc.
Many of us would leave for UK/USA in summer to escape the heat but no option to visit family back home now as we only have air bridges between us and London.
Our main concern now that we have no active COVID cases, is how we get our economy back up and running given our main tourism is from the US. We cannot expose our population of 60k people by letting US airlines come here other all the previous months have been for nothing.

The most pressing issue for us is our residents who have to fly off island for medical treatments that have been postponed, chemo and other major surgeries that can't happen because our borders remain closed. We're living in a holding pattern which ultimately is affecting many people with serious medical needs...

I thought it means going out during the day and visiting attractions but locally and then coming back home for night. So you could drive somewhere but not stay overnight.

It’s my favourite type of holiday tbh as I love my bed.

HoldMyLobster that’s right! And if fly thousands of miles from Toronto to Vancouver, that’s a staycation, but if I pop over the US border at Niagara on my day off I’m on holiday, even though it’s only an hour from my house.