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What are the chances of our staycation happening

45 replies

Babyfairy0923 · 13/12/2021 17:29

We are booked to go away as a large group at the end of December.
Really can’t see it happening now ☹️

OP posts:
vickyc90 · 13/12/2021 17:30

Just go as one household

LumpySpacedPrincess · 13/12/2021 17:38

Staycation is when you stay in your own home. You mean a holiday or break. Fingers crossed you get to go, it's awful when it's something you're looking forward too.

SagittariusDwarf · 13/12/2021 17:39

Why? Where in the U.K. are you? (Assuming U.K. at all). Have travel restrictions been brought in?

musicalfrog · 13/12/2021 17:40

YABU for opening the staycation debate in winter time!!

musicalfrog · 13/12/2021 17:41

Seriously though I hope you get your holiday. I don't think the government will impact it but your friends might.

gogohm · 13/12/2021 17:54

Holidays are not restricted. I would be surprised if they bring in any restrictions before New Years

mumof1or2 · 13/12/2021 19:42

@LumpySpacedPrincess

Staycation is when you stay in your own home. You mean a holiday or break. Fingers crossed you get to go, it's awful when it's something you're looking forward too.
Staycation means a holiday in your own country, not your own home.
WWTBCD · 13/12/2021 19:44

@mumof1or2 It's not.
Well it might have become that but a staycation is staying home and doing day trips. The clue is in Stay.

Travelling within the UK is still a holiday.

NynaeveSedai · 13/12/2021 19:44

Staycation means a holiday in your own country, not your own home.

No it doesn't. It means staying home and having time off work. A holiday in your own country is just a holiday.

OP your holiday will be fine as long as you all are still happy to go.

mumof1or2 · 13/12/2021 19:46

Looks like it can mean either!

What are the chances of our staycation happening
ThroughThickAndThin01 · 13/12/2021 19:48

Staycation means either. I use it for holidaying in this country like the OP, otherwise I’m just staying at home.

I think you’ll be alright.

mumof1or2 · 13/12/2021 19:49

[quote WWTBCD]@mumof1or2 It's not.
Well it might have become that but a staycation is staying home and doing day trips. The clue is in Stay.

Travelling within the UK is still a holiday. [/quote]
"The clue is in stay" Wow, how unnecessarily patronising..

blueshoes · 13/12/2021 19:57

Not the thread but staycation in contemporary parlance is holidaying in your own country. I have not known it to mean holidaying in your own home, which to me is not a holiday and if it did mean that, times have moved on with cheap flights (at least pre-covid) because most people think of a holiday as a holiday abroad, hence 'staycation' is a holiday in your home country.

WWTBCD · 13/12/2021 20:08

@blueshoes

Not the thread but staycation in contemporary parlance is holidaying in your own country. I have not known it to mean holidaying in your own home, which to me is not a holiday and if it did mean that, times have moved on with cheap flights (at least pre-covid) because most people think of a holiday as a holiday abroad, hence 'staycation' is a holiday in your home country.
You're wrong but I'm not going to spend my evening arguing about it. 😄
Waxonwaxoff0 · 13/12/2021 20:12

We are going to Butlins for new year. Keeping everything crossed.

christmaspombear · 13/12/2021 20:18

A staycation (a portmanteau of "stay" and "vacation"), or holistay (a portmanteau of "holiday" and "stay"), 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.

Montecristocount · 13/12/2021 20:22

It’s known to most people as a holiday in this country. Op I hope you get to go. We’re also booked to go somewhere between Christmas and new year with friends so really hoping rule of 6 doesn’t come back in.

SagittariusDwarf · 13/12/2021 20:24

@christmaspombear

A staycation (a portmanteau of "stay" and "vacation"), or holistay (a portmanteau of "holiday" and "stay"), 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.
Indeed. A holiday elsewhere in the U.K. is a holiday.
blueshoes · 13/12/2021 20:30

Ask any travel agent what a staycation means. Holidaying in your own home is an oxymoron.

ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 13/12/2021 20:32

A staycation IS when you take time off work, do day trips and stuff at home for that time. Not going on holiday. I went to Cornwall this year and Suffolk and it was a holiday not a staycation. Otherwise it is devaluing the concept of the Great British Holiday.

Anyway to get back on point, I wouldn't think they would cancel this - I am in the same position - BUT it depends on your mates and how they feel, I guess. I feel pretty safe going where I am. North Yorkshire, on a week's holiday.

Hopefully it will all go ahead.

blueshoes · 13/12/2021 20:34

Pedants (and those who consider a holiday in their own home a holiday) out in full force today. We all know what the OP means.

'Great British Holiday' kind of dates you.

GreenClock · 13/12/2021 20:39

It’s obvious what you meant OP

There may be a problem if you want to go from/to Scotland or Wales from/to England if the rules end up differing I suppose.

Randommother · 13/12/2021 20:45

I’m in the same position OP, due to meet up with a group of friends in a holiday house for a week over new year. We’ve been doing it forever and it’s my favourite week of the year. I was so upset last year when we couldn’t go, I’ll be devastated if we don’t make it this year.

LawnFever · 13/12/2021 20:47

@blueshoes

Pedants (and those who consider a holiday in their own home a holiday) out in full force today. We all know what the OP means.

'Great British Holiday' kind of dates you.

It’s not about considering a holiday in your own home a holiday, it’s the actual opposite Grin

Going away in the Uk, anywhere apart from your own home is a holiday, or a short break but not a staycation.

Time off work where you stay at home and do day trips etc is a staycation, not a holiday.

If you’re going to accuse people of being pendants at least figure out what they’re being pedantic about Smile

blueshoes · 13/12/2021 20:52

If you’re going to accuse people of being pendants at least figure out what they’re being pedantic about

And that is the problem with pedants. Stuck in a time warp Smile