A staycation is NOT a holiday in the UK, FFS!

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I know I am NOT being unreasonable

I agree with you, but common parlance has it that a staycation is a UK break. This annoys me but it seems I am powerless to effect change.

First Google result says it is a holiday spent in your own country.

@lannistunut

I agree with you, but common parlance has it that a staycation is a UK break. This annoys me but it seems I am powerless to effect change.

Same.

What are we supposed to call a holiday without leaving home now?

Does it really matter that much?

It is now. Language evolves and staycation has been stolen by people meaning a UK holiday.

This is a hill I am prepared to die on.

UK-based holiday is NOT a staycation/holistay.

Where has this idea that if it's not abroad it's not a holiday come from?

There’s been about six threads on this subject today. Why is everyone so het up about it?

I'm with you. I hate it and my family loved taunting me with the expression whilst we were on our UK HOLIDAY. We did NOT stay at home!

What is a staycation then?

I agree @CampervanQueen
It's been misused for only a couple of years due to people not being able to go abroad.

Google result that pp mentioned is as a result of misuse.

Staycation means you're staying at home, that's why the word came about.

@ImAddictedToMyPhone

What is a staycation then?

Staying in your own home

YANBU

A staycation is staying at home, but doing holiday type activities in your local area.

A holiday in the UK is a holiday.

@XenoBitch

First Google result says it is a holiday spent in your own country.

Which means pretty much all our family holidays over the years have been staycations and that definition would make meaningless the Covid news-story or suddenly everyone taking staycations.

Just because your holidays are usually luxury trips to far-flung places don't insult my holidays to Norfolk by calling them staycations, as if you are slumming it this year!

Also, if an American living in New York gets on a plane for a week's stay in Florida is that really a staycation?

Has anyone been on to mention that a holiday in the UK isn't a real holiday yet?

They're pretty annoying too.

Who cares

To me it’s holidaying in the British Isles.

Then Google is wrong!

A period of annual leave in your own home (or local area, at a pinch) doing days out = staycation.

A period of annual leave staying elsewhere in the UK doing days out = a holiday/break in the UK.

The "Stay" is important because it refers to staying put. Trouble is, it's been hijacked to mean staying in the same country, because clearly we would all be jetting off around the world if it wasn't for this pesky pandemic. I don't like it because to have a holiday in another part of the country is an absolutely fine holiday, but labelling that a staycation implies that it's not really anything that great to be honest, a bit of an inferior option really.

Yanbu in the slightest

Pisses me right off

Thank you @lannistunut @user16395699 @CampervanQueen ("holistay"?! Omg!)

@CampervanQueen

This is a hill I am prepared to die on.

UK-based holiday is NOT a staycation/holistay.

Where has this idea that if it's not abroad it's not a holiday come from?

Totally agree!!!

I can go 7000 km and still be on holiday in my own country!

But even in my own province, no, if I stay in a hotel and go to places other than my home, I'm really on vacation. Staycation is when you stay in your own home, or possibly your own town, and do the kinds of things visitors and tourists would do.

Do people who believe that it means your own country actually think that until cheap flights were a thing, most people had "staycations"?

Nah. A staycation is when you don’t travel abroad. That’s how I and everyone I know understand it anyway.

@AngeloMysterioso

Does it really matter that much?

No not really...

FWIW, my guess is that this idea somehow came from tourism people.