To ask for staycation help!

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Looking to book a holiday for two adults for August and need some inspiration!

We love cheap and cheerful places with lots of touristy things to do and love a caravan park wirh entertainment and facilities etc.

We have loved:

Paignton
Torquay
Bournemouth
Weston super mare
Devon cliffs
Brighton

Where next? Any resorts or parks in mind? We did consider Blackpool but we are based in Cornwall so it would be a long way...

The other option is Dublin but I'm not sure if there's much there?

A staycation is staying at home. So do Cornwall.

What you're asking about is a UK holiday 🤷‍♀️

@Bovrilla who shat on your cornflakes this morning

Loads in North Wales.
Surely Google is your best friend on this?.
But you mean an holiday..
A stay cation is staying at home in your back garden.

A staycation literally means a holiday in one's home country!

No it doesn't! It means when you stay at home, not travel within the UK! But it does get misused as such.

Weymouth?

No it doesn't..

It means stopping at home, on holiday and doing day trips.

I would definitely vouch for North Wales.

Anglesey blows my socks off when the weather is nice

Always meant stay at home - then when Covid hit, it changed to UK. So a relatively new thing. Not that it matters.

West Sussex coast line is quite nice. An amazing beach I can't remember the name of but was heaven.

Swanage
Weymouth

Though if I were you and lived in Cornwall I would stay at home this year and do day trips and put the money saved towards a foreign holiday next year.

No it doesn't. You're describing a UK holiday which has been the norm for decades before the phrase staycation was invented. We did it all the time in the 70s and 80s when nobody could afford to go abroad.

Anyway, as I'm Cornish I suggest you go to Polgoon Vineyard for a tour and lunch. St Ives to paddle in the harbour and visit the Tate. St Michael's Mount to walk across the causeway. The Eden Project to pretend you're in the Med. Padstow to visit the Lobster Sanctuary and eat fish & chips. Newquay to laugh at the sunburnt emmets. Anne's Pasties at the Lizard to take down to the Point. The list is endless.

From Google: staycation is a period in which an individual or family stays home and participates in leisure activities within day trip distance of their home and does not require overnight accommodation.

Nope it literally means staying at home and doing tourist things.

A UK holiday is still a holiday :)

OP what you are describing is having a holiday in the UK.

A staycation is where you stay in your own house, in your own bed and go on day trips.

A holiday is where you go away from your own home and stay somewhere else whether that is in the same country or abroad.

personally id go to Devon

From wiki? The phase/word has evolved and means both now. Why can't people accept that?! 🤣

No it doesn’t - that’s a holiday!!!

When ‘staycations’ were first mentioned, it was clear that it meant staying off work but staying at home - lots of things to do in your own home/garden/day trips.

Sons now use it to mean UK holiday - as though a holiday isn’t a real holiday if it’s not abroad!!!

Wow, the pedants are out in force, i think staycation is used alot in the media to mean vacation in uk, as in 'the staycation boom of covid is over' kind of thing, either way op, I knew exactly what you meant - bognor?

That weird definition needs to be erased. It’s an unbelievably privileged view - it’s only a ‘proper’ holiday if you’re going abroad. What the hell? !!!

Well it doesn't though does it. If you use it to mean holiday you're wrong. Because you're not 'stay'ing at home. You're going on holiday.

Haven Lakeland, lovely site and close enough to explore the lakes

You're 'staying' in your own country! It's ok to use it for both - look it up in the EOD.

Hafan Y Mor in Pwhelli, North Wales, it's a Haven site with a pool. Really clean good site and lots of other places to visit near to Pwhelli

Perranporth if you stay down in Cornwall. Also has a Haven site but it's not as clean as the Welsh one. There is a fab campsite next door though -Tollgate Camp Site.

It's not being pedantic though is it. They're completely separate things!

No it doesn't it really has been been thrust upon you during the pandemic when people couldn't get on a plane. You are looking for a holiday.

I recommend weymouth we have done Haven a few times.

I went to Dublin 18 years ago and that along with Blackpool is on my done that will not return list. We found Dublin to be expensive all those years ago so goodness knows how much prices have increased due to COL.
North wales is stunning as is Northumberland or the Peak District.

I'd give Dublin a miss personally. North Wales is absolutely gorgeous though and lots to do. What about Dartmoor, that's not too far and an amazing area. or does it have to be seaside? If so Woolacombe is lovely and has an amazing beach. I can't recommend any holiday parks though as they're my idea of hell!

Kent coast?