To not bother booking a staycation this year

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I know I know plenty will come in and say just wear rain gear and wellies and get out whatever the weather. I just don't enjoy getting wet though! Haven't booked any annual leave yet this summer and can't bring myself to book any kind of staycation after last years week of rain in wales which ended up being pretty expensive as to make it bearable we had to go "in" to have a coffee or a snack or do something as weather was so rubbish. With the forecast this year I think I'm just going to stay at home. Actually feeling ok about it. I'll at least have my creature comforts

Totally agree. Staycation being used to describe holidays in your own country is irritating as heck

That's an interpretation, not a definition. Lots of people use the word appreciatively of what their home country has to offer, with disdain for holidays abroad. (Or was that just my grandma)

I wonder where pedants holiday

So if people who live in Vermont stay in a luxury hotel in Hawaii for two weeks, they haven't actually been able to have a holiday (poor things), but just a modest, insignificant little staycation?

Words matter. When privileged people (including those for whom affordable holiday insurance is obtainable, as it isn't just the cost of the flights and accommodation) insist on referring disdainfully to a holiday in your own country as a 'staycation', this is the exact snobbish, sneery equivalent of refusing to accept that somebody with a 12yo Fiesta actually has a car or that people who can't afford (or even just resent paying) Waitrose or M&S prices are still feeding their family just as properly as you are with their weekly shop from Lidl.

By all means have your preferred choice of holiday for yourself, and feel free to be deeply disappointed if that isn't achievable for whatever reason; but there's no need whatsoever to belittle other people's different choices or what their limited budgets might stretch to by misusing a twee little word to put them in their place and assure them that their choices aren't valid.

It's completely different, though, stating that something most certainly isn't your choice for a holiday as opposed to stating that it isn't actually a holiday.

It would be my worst nightmare to live in London (or any huge city), but I don't refuse to accept that 10million or so people DO make their home there very happily and successfully. I'm sure that most of them would hate to live in my comparatively sleepy little market town, but that doesn't mean that where I live isn't actually a 'proper' home for those people who do live here.

You don't need other people to go abroad, your DC have you and they are not babies so should be easier and able to help. I have grown more adventurous with our holidays since my DC were younger and now we devise a holiday together and talk about what each of us wants to do wherever we are going. I book flights first when they become available, but you do have to be fairly flexible because they do change and then I book accommodation. I know you don't get package holiday protection, but have so far managed to change things if needed.

@SirAlfredSpatchcock sounds like you need a vacation to me. Stay- or otherwise. Aloha!

I wouldn't disagree with you at all there!!