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What are the chances of our staycation happening

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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:
QuitMoaning · 13/12/2021 20:58

@ImJustMadAboutSaffron

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.

I agree. I always thought a staycation was where you stay put. Take time off and just do day trips. I do think it really devalues a holiday in the U.K. otherwise.

I normally go abroad, but COVID has meant some British holidays and they have been fabulous but I called them holidays. Not staycations.

It does seem to divide people though.

WoodenReindeer · 13/12/2021 21:12

Its funny how people tend to think "most people" think like them. As in "most people go abroad/think staycation is a holiday i nthe uk..."

Its only since covid Ive ever heard of staycation to mean an actual holiday. We often holiday in the UK (cornwall, peak district, wales, isle of wight...) These have all been really actual holidays !! Staycation was a thing when you couldnt afford a holiday/couldnt leave pets etc and decided to do the local "sights" and eat out etc.

Montecristocount · 14/12/2021 21:40

I don’t know a single person who has ever just taken a load of annual leave, slept at home and done day trips and called it a staycation. I might take a couple of days and stay I’m going to the zoo or whatever but if I told people I was having a staycation they would ask where I was going! Is it a generational thing?

WoodenReindeer · 14/12/2021 22:20

Maybe? Precovid I certainly would have assumed people were staying at home. Not a common thing maybe but a week off and doing local stuff/meals out/no housework etc.

WoodenReindeer · 14/12/2021 22:21

If I said I was going on holiday and asked where and said cornwall /isle of wight etc would you think "but thats not a holiday" then? Maybe economic differences too.

TeeBee · 14/12/2021 22:30

I have a UK break booked too OP. Unless one of us has COVID, I'm going! Whatever it takes.

fluffythedragonslayer · 14/12/2021 22:34

I think the only thing with current restrictions that could scupper a trip away is getting Covid and not being able to go. I don't think any further travel.or party / household mixing restrictions will be brought in this side of the new year..

WoodenReindeer · 14/12/2021 22:35

I have a Uk break booked for Easter . I so thought it would be okay then....

Whattochoosenow · 14/12/2021 23:01

Just go OP - you’ll have a lovely time I’m sure. If anyone is concerned there’s the option to do a lateral flow beforehand.

WoodenReindeer · 15/12/2021 06:48

Yes absolutely go unless theyxdo bring restrictions in. Scotland is advising no more than 3 households mixing. But tbf they cant enforçe it.

If one of you has the new covid it will spread. But then we're all likely to get it at some point...

BarbaraofSeville · 15/12/2021 06:57

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

Exactly. If a staycation was a holiday your own country, that would mean that English people who take their holidays in Cornwall, Wales, Scotland etc never went on holiday. Of course they do.

A staycation, as in when you stay at home, do day trips, relax and eat nice food etc can be great, but most people don't have the imagination to enjoy it properly, or are able to stop themselves from doing housework etc, but that's their loss.

Toadsinholes · 15/12/2021 07:27

If staycations mean holidaying in your own country, does that mean if you live in Boston (USA, not Lincs) & decide to travel to LA for your holiday (a 6000 ish mile round trip) then it’s a staycation? That’s nonsense.

Anyway, why on Earth wouldn’t you go? Unless the govt decide to wreck the travel industry just a little bit more…

NynaeveSedai · 15/12/2021 08:40

@blueshoes

Ask any travel agent what a staycation means. Holidaying in your own home is an oxymoron.
Travel agents will do anything to market their products! Especially at the moment. The fact that they appropriated a word to describe what most people have done every year for generations (have a holiday without going overseas) doesn't mean that's what the word means.
NynaeveSedai · 15/12/2021 08:43

@Montecristocount

I don’t know a single person who has ever just taken a load of annual leave, slept at home and done day trips and called it a staycation. I might take a couple of days and stay I’m going to the zoo or whatever but if I told people I was having a staycation they would ask where I was going! Is it a generational thing?
Maybe, I have friends who took staycations before covid when they used their annual leave to book a week or two in the summer and enjoyed chilling at home and doing nice things locally.

People have gone on holiday in the U.K. forever. They are just holidays.

musicalfrog · 15/12/2021 10:38

@Montecristocount

I don’t know a single person who has ever just taken a load of annual leave, slept at home and done day trips and called it a staycation. I might take a couple of days and stay I’m going to the zoo or whatever but if I told people I was having a staycation they would ask where I was going! Is it a generational thing?
Because we never bothered having a word for it before. Even 'vacation' is an Americanism. It's unnecessary.
WWTBCD · 15/12/2021 14:30

@Montecristocount

I don’t know a single person who has ever just taken a load of annual leave, slept at home and done day trips and called it a staycation. I might take a couple of days and stay I’m going to the zoo or whatever but if I told people I was having a staycation they would ask where I was going! Is it a generational thing?
Not everyone can afford holidays. Some people don't like to or can't. It's not that unusual.
WWTBCD · 15/12/2021 14:30

Actually I misread that. 😄 I have heard it called a staycation but not often.

LawnFever · 16/12/2021 08:32

@WoodenReindeer

If I said I was going on holiday and asked where and said cornwall /isle of wight etc would you think "but thats not a holiday" then? Maybe economic differences too.
Completely agree, lots of people do seem to only think a holiday involves going abroad but not everyone can afford that, some people don’t like flying etc.

It’s a very privileged view to only see a holiday abroad as a ‘real’ holiday.

I never even went abroad until I was about 25, but all my UK childhood holidays were most definitely holidays.

lololololollll · 16/12/2021 08:39

Can't believe how many people give a shit enough to comment on what staycation means. Get out more guys! And yes I'm aware I need to also get out more, since I'm commenting on you commenting. 😂

musicalfrog · 16/12/2021 09:56

@lololololollll

LOL

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