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

[FunTimes2020]

I know I am NOT being unreasonable

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.*

Well that is a weekend break, a holiday is longer. If I was having 3 days in Barcelona it would be a weekend break not a holiday.

A staycation is definitely in your own house and involves annual leave being booked.

@youdoyoutoday

Second thread today on this.... why are you bothered?

Why are you bothered if I'm bothered?! I have plenty of allies on this thread and 76% saying ianbu, so...

To be fair though the difference between Texas and Hawaii will be more marked than Norfolk and Devon for example 😂

How can you holiday in your own home? Isn't that just called 'living there'?

😂

you'd think so

Correction, now 77%

@AnnaSW1, you may think it does, but you're wrong

Me and DH were talking about this the other day and both agreed it’s really annoying!!

I feel like it’s saying that all the people who can normally only afford a holiday in the U.K. aren’t actually having a proper holiday. And that a holiday (or staycation for the years) in the U.K. is just a 2nd rate option.

A staycation is when you take time off work but stay at home and do holiday type stuff in your local area/day trips. I will also accept calling going to stay with family in another area a staycation but am prepared to be shot down on that one!!

No. You're not going to work, you're making an effort to go on outings and do holiday type things as a family, and you're also ideally eating out a lot and having takeaways to minimise the housework involved.

so.. Sunday.

There’s a five hour time difference between Texas and Hawaii so you’d be unlikely to call that a staycation!

@CherieBabySpliffUp

A staycation is staying at home and going out for day trips. Can you imagine telling a Texan while they are holidaying in Hawaii that actually they are having a staycation, not a vacation!

If I could spend 2 weeks in Hawaii within my own country, I wouldn't care less how you'd call it. I'd be in Hawaii!

A staycation is a holiday somewhere in your own country other than your home

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@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?

Me too. Someone on my social media used it to mean a UK holiday and they went down very very slightly in my estimation...

Using a specific word to denote that holidaying in the UK isn't really sufficient enough to be a holiday is snobby beyond belief btw. I know that people have now been duped into thinking this is what it means, but only a few years ago it DID NOT MEAN A UK HOLIDAY!

Domestic tourism, packing the bags (and possibly all the camping gear) and heading off to a different set of 4 walls and different British scenery

Staycation, same shit, same location, the usual entertaining the DCs at the usual repetoire of local attractions. Not a holiday, just concentrating normal family life into a series of days out.

Massive difference.

I'm happier having the novelty of washing up in a caravan than loading the dishwasher as usual. As a SAHM, a "staycation" in no way resembles a holiday at all.

Have I "staycationed" today because I took the DCs off to a local tourist honeypot?

@Chloemol

A staycation is a holiday somewhere in your own country other than your home

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What does the 'stay' refer to then? You're going somewhere and staying there rather than at your home, aren't you?

@dunkaccino I'll disagree with that

Nowadays it does mean that

Holiday just means you don't have to go to work or school and get to spend your time doing whatever you want.

What about people who don't work

Well, I guess you're on holiday all the time then. But for those of us with stressful jobs, getting to sit on our arse in the garden not talking to gobshites you work with all day, is a holiday.

The “stay” refers to staying in your own country, no? I don’t get it. If you go away in the UK, it’s great, but it’s the same weather, food, language, culture. There’s no change. If you go abroad it’s just different. That, for me, is more a holiday 🤷‍♀️
It’s just semantics really though.

@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?

I agree.

I suspect the term has been appropriated by Travel agents , trying to create the idea that you haven't been on holiday unless they have sold you you have been on an expensive foreign holiday--

If you stay away from your home, then it is a holiday.
If you are on staycation, you live in your home but are not going to work, and are doing things you can't normally do when you are at work - often including, but not exclusive to day trips.

Well it can stop bloody evolving!

Alright Samuel Johnson 👍

I'm 28 and aside from mumsnet have never heard staycation refer to staying at home, only holidaying in the UK.

I always thought it meant staying at home doing nice things, days out, etc.

YANBU staycation as I have always known it is staying at home and taking day trips to places, or having a holiday feel at home like renting a hot tub for a weekend

I'll die on this hill. Our holidays in the UK are proper holidays, stuff what Google says. A staycation for me would mean staying at home. A lovely hotel or cottage in the UK is a proper holiday, just without the sun hassle at the airport.

Oh I agree
This has been getting on my tits 🤣 altho it’s about 50/50 in real life whether people agree with me or not

It’s a holiday in the U.K.
a holiday god dam it !!!