Staycations

[Clarkozy]

Hi everyone, Is anyone planning a staycation this year? And if so, where to? Life's a beach.

We live in the south and once it's "allowed", we plan to visit family and friends in Yorkshire for a few days, hopefully in September.

I've got a week's leave in July so I'm hoping the weather plays ball as I plan to chill in the garden with books, books and more books

We got bikes, cars and a portable bbq, we plan on day trips. Picnics in the park. That kind of stuff, nothing far/fancy :)

staycation to us means staying at home - visiting local attractions (if open), going to pubs and enjoying time off at home. going somewhere else within the uk is not a staycation - for a huge segment of the population, a week self catering within the uk is a perfectly normal annual family holiday. thinking it isn't a real holiday if it doesn't involve flights shows a rather startling lack of awareness of ones own privilege and wealth.

I agree, for years ‘staycation’ meant staying at home but visiting places in your local area, having days out etc, then all go a sudden in the past couple of years people use it to mean holidaying in the U.K. which implies that holidaying in the U.K. isn’t a proper holiday and makes people who can’t afford a foreign holiday feel rubbish.

Thanks for all the messages this morning. Staycations are back in this great Isle of the UK. Lovely beaches ( i think around 1500) , coastal walks and loads to do and see. Once 'we're allowed 'out to play' the benefits of sea, surf, sand and blue sky will be available to enjoy I'm sure.

...which implies that holidaying in the U.K. isn’t a proper holiday and makes people who can’t afford a foreign holiday feel rubbish

I disagree. An equivalent holiday in the UK is not the cheap option.

Having said that, if you could guarantee the weather and warm up the sea by about 20 degrees, I would never leave the UK again.

so you haven't bothered to read the replies then OP? what you are describing is "a holiday"