To think a UK holiday is still a proper holiday?

[Driedpotatochip]

I’m going to Argentina next week and a friend commented that it’s been ages since I had a proper holiday post covid.

I’ve managed to do long weekends away and a week away twice in the UK and also went to Spain for a long weekend from 2020 to now.

True I haven’t been to a destination that’s really far away since 2019 but I feel like i still had proper holidays. Aibu or does what I did not count as a holiday?

I think the "week in the sun" holiday is particularly British too. We have Aussie relatives and they happily travel to other parts of Australia for a holiday !

Similar, Ive had 2 separate week long holidays in the UK and one week abroad this year, plus lots of mini breaks.

Until the dog died all our holidays were in the UK to take him along, so if I was disingenuous like some posters on here, I could have said 'I havent had a holiday for 15 years'. It would be completely misleading and makes me wonder why someone would say that.

I think that can't really be compared.

Australia is a continent with several very different climate zones and landscapes. Friends who lived in Sydney for several years definitely didn't see a holiday in Queensland the same as a holiday around the corner in the Blue Mountains.

Going from one end to the other is also a lot more expensive than driving from one end of the UK to the other. It's more like seeing Europe as one country and saying a holiday in Sweden is the same as a holiday in Cyprus.

How horribly snobby.
Get over yourself.

I heartily agree!

Goodness me there's some entitled people on here. Snobby too.
When my older 3 kids were little, in the early 90s, their Dad had buggered off with a rich woman. They used to take them abroad, Disneyworld etc, spend a fortune on them.
I took them to a caravan in Ingoldmells.
They always recall it as the best holiday of their childhood, because they were able to just have fun. No stress. No king journeys. No queues. Just fun.
Of course it's a holiday in the U.K.

Of course a holiday in the UK is a holiday! What on earth do people think the word 'holiday' means?

In the UK I wouldn't say its a proper holiday as such. I go abroad for the hot weather and it makes the holiday.

So if you went for a week away in the UK and it was really hot, would that make it a 'proper holiday'? And if you went abroad but it unexpectedly rained every day, would that no longer count as a 'proper holiday'?

Going on holiday means taking time off work to stay somewhere other than your residence for leisure purposes. 'Proper holidays' is just code for 'Holidays that poorer people than me can't afford'.

I'll join you on that hill. Staycation absolutely means staying in your own home and doing touristy things around you.

However, we've had UK holidays of three days/two nights and for us they were definitely holidays and not short breaks.

I think the distinction is in the word ‘proper’, rather than holiday.

by definition a week or two away in the UK is a holiday, but clearly many people wouldn’t feel like it was a proper holiday as it didn’t involve going abroad. For me, a proper holiday means going abroad, as that is what I always associated holidays with from being a child, and I wouldn’t want to spend a holiday in the same country I reside in.

i can’t say I’ve ever thought about it in terms of rich and poor, or considered my own preference to mean that I’m somehow better than people who holiday differently. It’s a case of each to their own.