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 seaside town during a music festival week eg, Sidmouth or Whitby

A staycation is where you STAY at home and have days out.

What you are looking for is called "A Holiday".

HTH 😊

https://sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/
https://www.whitbyfolk.co.uk/book/#:~:text=Whitby%20Folk%20Week%202024%20will,is%20to%20get%20there%20early.

So OP if someone asks whether you are going on holiday this year what will your answer be?

It literally doesn't.

The Daily Mail might have tried to call it that. But families have been having domestic holidays in the UK for decades.

To say that 2 weeks in Cornwall when you live in the Midlands is not a holiday is extremely rude.

Dearover
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.

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

Because it is rude.

I thought Swanage too.

If I lived in Cornwall I would stay in Porthcurno, purely for the beaches.

Absolutely!

This! In which case I've only had 2 holidays in my 57 years. Meanwhile in the real world, I've been on holiday nearly every year.
So a holiday in this country, The Lakes, Norfolk Broads?

I thought it meant staying at home. , but means either according to Oxford dictionary
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noun^
1 a holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.







verb
1 take a holiday in one's home country rather than abroad, or at home with day trips to local attractions."we have been busy sourcing the best spots to staycation this summer"

@Useyourfork

Sidmouth Folk Festival is great but very pricy, I get the impression this might not be what op is after. The only accommodation left will be camping or my mums spare room

https://www.parkdeanresorts.co.uk/holiday-sales-accommodation-listings/?overview_id=406bb31e-1f98-4a8c-b1e8-9bb3bea6e1ea&destination-type=parks&park=d96bde85-81b6-4523-bc7b-98f7de36a551&park-region=1f068679-57eb-47ae-80eb-0e427b0b660e&accommodation-type=holidays&selected-types=&product-types=534542CDC3DB4285BCC7A7279B8BAF41_0D6F82D69CBD4E5C866F56FD3ED824AE&features=&unit-types=&PitchLength=&Adults=1&Teenagers=0&Children=0&Infants=0&Pets=0&min-berths=1&selected-date=cd17&selected-duration=7n&selected-month=20248&start-date=2024-08-23T00:00:00&end-date=2024-08-30T00:00:00&duration=7

I'm amazed people take offence at the word!

We went here last summer and it was lovely.
https://cove.co.uk/sealbayresort/specialoffers/early-summer/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjww_iwBhApEiwAuG6ccMTZLp82m30ZzXKJ0_cYX9AZWiRlQye6gGP_7ZFw8pM-3AXKLd83shoC1UwQAvD_BwE

We did a few day trips, like to the Portsmouth Historic Docks. The kids keep asking when we can go back.

This thread has been totally derailed but I'm with you on your use of the word OP. If someone told me they were planning a staycation I would never imagine that they were literally staying at home and going on day trips 😂

Perhaps it's an age thing! I'm with @tracktrail though. My DH doesn't even have a passport, but we go on holiday together 4 or 5 times each year.

Just because the media use a word incorrectly, doesn't mean they're right.

They're busy telling people that they won't let you into Spain unless you've got thousands in your bank account this week and that's not right either.

I think if I lived in Cornwall, I'd do a house swap in the summer and go somewhere like London and have a city break for a change.

No-one except the OP has taken offence, they’ve just corrected her.

Nobody shat in my cornflakes (I do believe the phrase it actually pissed on the cornflakes 🤣) however staycation ranks up with "holibobs" as a word to give the infamous "ick".

However, as someone from near Blackpool, do yourself a favour and don't bother 🤣🤣🤣

Cotswolds? Not quite so far to travel, or maybe New Forest? Lots to do, actually nice and not involving the M6 😁

But that's exactly what they're doing. Staying at home but having day trips out, relaxing in the garden, and hopefully freeing themselves from domestic drudgery as much as possible.

If they were going away, they'd be 'going on holiday'.

Well that's just another example of taking an expression from the US and using it wrong. If it means a holiday in one's own country, do you think if someone from New York spends 2 weeks in Hawaii on holiday that's a staycation?

I don't take offence in the word.
But I would only use it to describe staying at home and having holiday-like day trips, but my home is my base and where I sleep.
But I don't like the way it's now used to mean a UK based holiday.

It feels like people are suggesting that a holiday in their own country isn't a proper holiday. It feels like it comes from a privileged position, as if a UK based holiday isn't good enough to be classed as a holiday,

Also, is it a holiday or a staycation if you go to Wales or Scotland from England? I'm now pondering this..😂

Why amazed? It’s basically an insult to those who don’t holiday abroad. Your holiday is not deemed to be a ‘proper’ holiday - it’s called a staycation not a holiday.

Someone twisted the word to mean UK holiday when it did not mean that at all.

It’s a holiday - unless you’re day tripping …