I can’t stand ‘Staycation‘

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AIBU to absolutely detest press/people referring to UK holiday as staycation? Staycation to me is spending annual leave at your own house. Going for days our etc allowed but still sleeping in your own home. Going on holiday in the UK should still be classed as holiday, surely? I am not sure why the misuse of this term infuriates me so much! or AIBU?

Agree

A staycation is where you stay at home (but act like you're on holiday)

It really grates when it's misused

I know what you mean because it implies that holidaying in this country isn't a proper holiday which is very short sighted. We have had some incredible holidays in the uk as we try not to fly very often.

YANBU - a staycation is when you stay at home and not when you travel somewhere else in the UK.

Staycation for me is a week in my garden!

Totally agree. I've only been on holiday to UK destinations for 12 years now (not really by choice) and the holidays I've been on have not been 'Staycations'!

Traveling 7 hours to Cornwall on a train/car is hardly a 'staycation'.

Maybe if you live in Lancaster and go to the Lakes for a week.

YES! Every time i hear someone (it's always on the news actually) say staycation about a holiday in the UK i think 'it must be just me who thought it meant stay actually AT HOME' ...

Thank you OP :)

I completely agree.
There's something a bit smug or superior about calling a UK holiday a staycation, as of its only a proper holiday if you go abroad. We've done both and unless I'm sleeping in my own home, it's a holiday or mini break, not a staycation.

I am not sure why the misuse of this term infuriates me so much!

It’s the implied sniffiness about UK holidays, I think. As though they don’t even count as holidays:

I don’t really count it as a holiday unless it’s properly hot appreciate I am utterly unreasonable and will be run out of town by the UK holidays are marvellous brigade.

Thank you! I thought it was just me! I think it is probably the counting UK holiday as something of a lesser category (by many) that is as annoying as the misuse of ‘staycation’ term.

Agree! I'm struggling not to comment on social media re this(!). A stay cation is staying at home. Staying in Cornwall for a few days when you live in Nottingham is a holiday, a UK holiday if you must define it.

I think its meaning has changed since Covid. It has become shorthand for the pivot to domestic tourism, because of the implication of "stay" as in stay in the UK because of the pandemic. Don't forget it's a relatively new, manufactured linguistic addition anyway, so I can't really get worked up about the shift in usage myself.

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I don’t really count it as a holiday unless it’s properly hot appreciate I am utterly unreasonable and will be run out of town by the UK holidays are marvellous brigade.

It was 39 degrees in Herts last summer. Any more properly hot and I'd have melted!

I absolutely agree with you OP. I like actual staycations (although I hate the word even applied to that!) but a holiday in the UK is still a holiday!

When I was a child we went to France once and I went to America with my Aunt and Uncle, but otherwise all holidays were in the UK - and they were holidays!!

I hope my DD doesn't think she's been short changed on holidays when she grows up just because we rarely went abroad.

Yes agreed! What’s the point in a staycation!? You don’t get the same experience as you would getting on a plane/airport and the excitement of actually going away where there’s constant sun and a beach and nice bars etc
We recently moved to France and so it’s still like a holiday for us and not planning to go away until next year now!

Me too it's either going on holiday or not faffing staycation tut!

We don't go abroad due to DH's anxiety so all our holidays are in the UK and they are HOLIDAYS!

We have been abroad 7 or 8 times but have had a holiday every year not once have we said oo where shall we staycation this year [

I always thought staycation meant staying in your own city/town.

Like i live in zone 3 london so the burbs, but a staycation would be me booking a hotel in central london and going to the british museum, tate etc

You are definitely not being unreasonable.

"Staycation" is such a relatively new word, surely there's no need to tweak its meaning quite yet. Anything where you don't sleep at home at night is not a staycation.

They keep doing articles on tv about it after an other article about quarantine after Spain it is driving me up the wall,

Completely agree.

I know someone who thinks that unless you get on a plane you aren't having a holiday. We do both UK and overseas holidays and some of our most favourite holidays have been in the UK.

I have been getting annoyed about this - staycation is treating your nearby home as if it is a holiday destination. Going to Cornwall if you don't live there is just a sodding holiday.