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

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I know I am NOT being unreasonable

And a holiday in another part of the UK is a big deal for many of us, so don't like it being referred to as the slumming it option!

This

@piglet81

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

I can assure you I am not het up. Het up = highly excited, upset. I'm neither, just an irritable woman being ever so slightly petty!

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! angry

@DadDadDad

I just regurgitated the first Google result as I was confused. I always assumed it to mean taking time off work but not going away anywhere. Why does it need a name anyway?

@Hellocatshome

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

Well it can stop bloody evolving!

It was the government and the media which started calling them staycations as they don't regard staying in the UK is a holiday

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

Yep, probably right. Subtle denigration of UK holidays = people feeling it's the done thing/norm to go abroad = more abroad holidays booked.

At the same time, it's catchier to advertise a staycation rather than "a week in a holiday cottage in Kent."

@Lancrelady80

And a holiday in another part of the UK is a big deal for many of us, so don't like it being referred to as the slumming it option!

I've just had 2 glorious weeks holiday in the UK. My 6 year old rates it as better than his trip to Iceland, which for many is the ultimate holiday location. We were definitely not slumming it!!

@piglet81

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

Pinocchio, is that you?

Agree with you OP. It’s annoying. I love a staycation and it’s absolutely not the same as when I’m made to go on holiday in Devon or Scotland. You have to pack and travel. It’s a holiday in the uk.

A staycation is staying at home whole having time off work, possibly going for dat trips from your home. Not going and staying somewhere else, uk or abroad.

@howdidigettobe50something

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!

The buggers!

Means staying home, so staying in your home country...

Not that much a big deal.

It doesn't have to mean a crap break, you can spend 10 times more to stay in the UK than going on a cheap package holiday abroad.

I use staycation for the UK, and staying"home" for literally that, staying in my own house

Almost as annoying as the implied suggestion that holidaying in the UK is second rate are the people who come on this thread to make comments such as "does it really matter? why get too bothered about a word?"

If it doesn't matter to you, then don't comment, but appreciate that there is some strong feeling. I realise it's not the biggest issue in the world right now, but it's still an irritant the way it's used in the media.

@Queenoftheashes

Agree with you OP. It’s annoying. I love a staycation and it’s absolutely not the same as when I’m made to go on holiday in Devon or Scotland. You have to pack and travel. It’s a holiday in the uk.

Precisely!

@maddening

A staycation is staying at home whole having time off work, possibly going for dat trips from your home. Not going and staying somewhere else, uk or abroad.

then most people have a staycation every weekend and every time they take a sickie, do we really need a word for "staying home"?

@isthisareverse

Means staying home, so staying in your home country...

Not that much a big deal.

It doesn't have to mean a crap break, you can spend 10 times more to stay in the UK than going on a cheap package holiday abroad.

I use staycation for the UK, and staying"home" for literally that, staying in my own house

Sorry but you are wrong, can I convert you?

@DadDadDad

Almost as annoying as the implied suggestion that holidaying in the UK is second rate are the people who come on this thread to make comments such as "does it really matter? why get too bothered about a word?"

If it doesn't matter to you, then don't comment, but appreciate that there is some strong feeling. I realise it's not the biggest issue in the world right now, but it's still an irritant the way it's used in the media.

All my holidays are in the UK. Am not having a go at all.

A staycation is a holiday in YOUR OWN HOME!!!

That's it. Have some days out, relax, whatever but you are based at home!

@isthisareverse

Means staying home, so staying in your home country...

Not that much a big deal.

It doesn't have to mean a crap break, you can spend 10 times more to stay in the UK than going on a cheap package holiday abroad.

I use staycation for the UK, and staying"home" for literally that, staying in my own house

No, there's already a word for taking time to travel somewhere else in the country and stay in accommodation other than your home: it's a holiday!

Why call it a staycation when that word has always served another useful purpose?

Agree. It’s just staying at home and not going on holiday. A staycation is shorthand for going on holiday in the uk

Sorry but you are wrong, can I convert you? grin

nope
but I am happy to convert YOU!

YANBU. The original term meant staying at home and doing holiday activities as day trips. It’s mean increasingly hijacked by marketing for UK breaks since the pandemic as an alternative to travelling abroad. I am aware that language evolves but still annoying and wrong.

No, there's already a word for taking time to travel somewhere else in the country and stay in accommodation other than your home: it's a holiday!

not really, when you do that over the weekend, no one calls that a holiday. All the people who will stay somewhere else than home for the bank holiday weekend, but in the UK, won't describe it as a holiday.

Also annoyed by this.
It minimises my holidays- makes them sound second best, just because they're not involving a passport.