Staycation

[Besswess88]

You are not on a “Staycation” because you aren’t fucking abroad - you are on a holiday.

You are not “slumming it” because your aren’t abroad you are on a fucking holiday.

And breathe.

Doesn’t staycation just mean staying in the country on holiday?

Before Covid, staycation was always used to mean staying in your own home whilst having time off.

Another vote for staycation meaning staying at home and doing day trips. Going on holiday in your own country is still a holiday!

@Cornishmumofone

Before Covid, staycation was always used to mean staying in your own home whilst having time off.

Exactly - it’s like people are making a massive sacrifice hiring a lovely cottage in the Lake District rather than a gite in Bordeaux.

To me, a staycation is remaining at home but off work, using the time for day trips and relaxing, but still sleeping at your own house. I think staycation is a great word for that.

Yup, I've always used and understood staycation as being at home and going out for treats more often than usual.

Staycation to describe not going abroad is illogical to me. The UK, like many other countries, has a wide range of locations for holidays... seaside towns, mountains, lakes, forests, cities...hotels, b&bs, campsites, caravan parks, even boats...how are these not proper holidays? You can go skiing in Scotland or do watersports in Cornwall, go hiking in Wales or play golf wherever...all holidays.

Staying at home is complete different.

You're right but words change meaning all the time, see "gay" (changing from meaning "happy" to "homosexual" to "rubbish") or "nonplussed" (changing from "surprised and not sure how to react" to "not bothered"). If enough people decide a word has a new meaning, it does.

It annoys me too but apparently staycation means staying at home or holidaying in uk too now word has evolved. I googled after seeing an article saying Prince William was having a staycation in Scilly Isles. To my mind they were having a lovely holiday. I really don’t understand how 2 hour flight to stay in tent in France is a holiday but 8 hour drive to stay in luxury cottage in Cornwall is a staycation. Staycation can involve more time travelling and cost more than a holiday abroad. I’ve never heard anyone say the word out loud they say we are going on holiday to Whitby or we’ve booked a cottage in the Lake District.

Exactly. Drives me up the wall. We used to go on holiday to the West country every year when I was a child. Now I live in Devon and save myself a fortune

Since when has "nonplussed" meant 'not bothered'?

It's staying at home.

When I was a kid in the 80s hardly anyone went abroad, people at school took the piss out of my sister and I for being posh as we went to France.