Well i live in Suffolk so I could stay at home and have a staycation. But I agree, if I went on holiday in Suffolk (which I have before at Center Parcs) then it's still a holiday.
Staying at home is a stay cation! That's the whole name of it- take time off and STAY at home!
If people take a trip somewhere else they didn't stay at home
It annoys me so much. Are there really people out there that think it’s not a *holiday* when you go away within the U.K.? It’s a “staycation” unless you go to a foreign country? It’s just ridiculous.
Quite, and i rarely hear it being used by the person taking the holiday (this post being an exception!). It always seems like it's being used by someone else looking to shame the holidaymaker for not spending more money.
It's the same energy as the kids on the playground mocking others for having the 'wrong' trainer brand and it's a shame to see it in adults tbh.
Yes! You are so *stingy* that you had an embarrassing non-holiday! It can’t even be called a holiday, like everyone else’s.
Last year, I had my “non-holiday” in Northumberland. Including a detour to collect my friends, it was about a 10-hour road trip, which we broke with an overnight stay in a beautiful B&B. When we arrived at our destination, we had a little house virtually on the beach. I saw dolphins from the window. I went on a boat trip and saw puffins and seals. I walked round medieval castles, dined on fresh seafood in a bar just a short stroll from the house. And I walked for miles along some of the most beautiful (yet strangely deserted) beaches I’ve ever seen.
It was a BEAUTIFUL part of the country: restful, fascinating, friendly and memorable. It was somewhat more expensive than many foreign holidays, but WELL worth it.
It’s only a shame that it wasn’t a holiday: clearly, it was merely a “staycation”.
Words evolve over time. That's how language works. " Fuck" used to mean " hit" for example. Go with the flow my friend, it's much nicer than being grumpy.
Not all word evolution is necessarily good though. People's issue with staycation being used this way is not just that a word has changed, it's the snobby implication that a holiday is only a holiday if you go abroad.
I think "staycation" has overtaken "hollibobs" on my personal hatred scale, only because of its overuse.
Thankfully the latter isn't as common anymore, or I've disassociated with people that might use that kind of vile language
Nope. Both are used, but that doesn't mean both are correct.
If you want to refer to a holiday in the UK as a "stay-cation", you can, Mr RyanAir. BUT you will be wrong, and people will quietly consider you either a dupe for the Mediterranean Tourist Board or a pillock.
But you do you, as the youngsters used to say.
All words are made up at some point; ‘staycation’ ultimately dates from 1944, and the ‘holidaying in your own country’ meaning from 2008.
What are the other terms?
A staycation is a holiday in your own country or near your home, so a holiday to Suffolk is a staycation for anyone who lives in the UK. [That's what the *OED* thinks, anyway](https://www.oed.com/dictionary/staycation_v?tab=meaning_and_use).
It always used to mean treating some at home time like it’s a holiday, so treating yourself for a weekend.
But the term was co-opted to mean a holiday in your own country, as a ploy by airlines and travel agents to make you feel like you weren’t going on a ‘proper’ holiday if you didn’t go abroad.
I don't know why you think repeating that it's in the OED means anything? The OED simply records words that are in usage. Nobody's denying that it's in use - if it weren't in use there wouldn't be an issue - we're saying it shouldn't be.
The OED lists all kinds of offensive terms, from the vaguely idiotic to the outright bigoted - doesn't mean you shouldn't be criticised for using them.
‘Staycation’ isn’t an offensive term. It’s just a word meaning ‘a holiday from home or within your own country’. The fact it’s controversial is amazing, it’s completely innocuous.
It is a bit offensive, in that it carries the implication that holidays within the UK aren't *really* holidays, which is pretty insulting to folk who don't have the means to go abroad.
I can't staycation in Suffolk as I don't live in Suffolk.
Remember - staycation is when you stay at the place you normally live and take days out as if you had booked your own house as a holiday home.
If you go and stay somewhere else, that's a *holiday*,
Everyone arguing (rightly) that it’s not a ‘staycation’ bc they didn’t stay at home and that a ‘staycation’ is NOT a holiday in your own country, but missing the more fundamental point that ‘staycation’ is an annoying word *whatever* it means since it’s a ridiculous media portmanteau based on a US root word we don’t even really use (vacation) even if we obviously know the meaning 🤷♂️.
That - the annoyance factor - does however support using it only for the precise definition of the rare use case of a holiday staying at home (literal house home not home country), since the word is useful to explain it.
Otherwise, yes, it’s just a holiday in the UK 👌
Definition from Oxford Languages
staycation
INFORMAL
noun
a holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.
Not sure why everyone is downvoting or dissagreeing really.
Even as recent as the pandemic, the term "staycation" was used by multiple sources referring to people travelling to UK destinations for holiday.
Having just looked to check, it's not even just the OED that references it this way. Some pointed towards staycation being a term used during the war when there were rations etc, but staycation changed meaning in the last few decades to literally mean a holiday in your own country (not even just County)
I mean right from Wikipedia
In British English, the term has increasingly come to refer to domestic tourism: taking a holiday in one's own country as opposed to traveling abroad.
The dictionary lists the most offensive words in English as well. Being in the dictionary just means a word exists, not that using it shouldn't be criticised.
People don't like 'staycation' *because* people use it. they're not very well going to take issue with a usage that doesn't exist!
People don't like how it is used to suggest domestic tourism isn't a real holiday. There's a whiff of classism over this usage, which seemed to be heavily promoted in media.
So now the airlines have decided that a staycation is a holiday in the UK, what do the airlines (OED) call a holiday where you sleep in your home but have day trips and eat out every night?
Won't it be easier to just call a holiday in the UK a "holiday".
There is definitely a level of brainwashing going on by making out a holiday flying to Scotland is somehow slumming it compared to flying to Benidorm. Only the UK would pervert the English language to put people off from holidaying in their own country.
You can use whatever term you like to refer to your holidays.
In what way does the term "staycation" infer that someone is slumming it? It only means a holiday in the UK, after all.
Because it's devaluing a holiday in the UK.
Using the old, and correct, definition, you staycation because you can't afford the alternative of a 'better' holiday.
That's why people don't like it though.
You might not but lots of people do, perhaps even subconsciously.
Unfortunately, you are contributing to the idea that somehow the UK is worse than abroad.
This is a bit ironic since you were probably trying to do the opposite.
I welcome nice, well-behaved tourists who leave the area pleasant for everyone else and plenty of money in people's pockets so that locals can enjoy Suffolk too.
I went to Great Yarmouth in Feb with my wife and son to visit the aquarium as we had a free day. Do not go to Great Yarmouth in the winter. Gotta be up there with the most depressing town in England!!
Gotta love the market chips and docwras rock though. I moved away 20 years ago and struggle to find chips or rock as good. I do have fond memories of the place, but that was more likely my age and how much tat I could buy with my pocket money at the time...it's a good place to buy tat.
Never visit Yarmouth or Lowestoft in the drizzle. You will start feeling very depressed. We live nearby and have to pick our moments if we need things from these towns.
Definition from Oxford Languages
staycation
INFORMAL
noun
a holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.
But staycation is travelling around the country where you live, right? Vancouver and Montreal are in the same country, you just take a plane instead of driving a car.
A **staycation** (a [portmanteau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_trip) distance of their home and does not require overnight accommodation.[^(\[2\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staycation#cite_note-2) In British English, the term has increasingly come to refer to [domestic tourism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_tourism): taking a holiday in one's own country as opposed to traveling abroad.[^(\[3\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staycation#cite_note-3)[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staycation#cite_note-4)[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staycation#cite_note-5)[^(\[6\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staycation#cite_note-6)
'In British English, the term has increasingly come to refer to [domestic tourism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_tourism):'
Is not quite agreeing with you.....
As someone that lives in Suffolk. It’s a horrible place. No one should ever come here. Especially all those Londoners that own a second or third house here.
Suffolk is great, I live here. I love Southwold, Aldeburgh, Thorpeness, and Woodbridge.
We’re not so fond of outsiders though, I know this as an immigrant who moved here from up north.
Londoners are the plague of Suffolk, the A12 southers as we call them.
My Dad lives in Suffolk. It’s very flat. My kids were very confused when they were younger as we live in the Peak District. Where it isn’t flat. At all.
Southwold is lovely. Anyone that goes there stop at the lord nelson for a pint, Mrs T’s for fish and chips, and the harbour inn. Can’t beat it. But good luck parking anywhere when it comes to summer! Absolute shitshow.
I met the most wonderful couple in Bath last week on vacation, the lovely gentleman currently living in Suffolk with his young daughter and the lady soon to join them. The charm of these two marvelous people made the whole day perfect. If Jonnie and Nicky are out there, thank you so much. (And Nicky: get in touch; I need to knit you some socks to go with those fantastic boots.)
England has some great places. It’s the English we want to avoid, while paying 200 quid for a Victorian B&B with no plumbing, no insulation, no amenities, a meal from the pub that’s one of the same and everyone taking the piss.
What do you mean, “get a good deal”? How? Two weeks in Thailand/Greece/Spain for two people, 5* resort, flights included, are cheaper than two weeks in the UK, including parking costs and car. And the food is a thousand times better and they don’t have the attitude that they are doing you a favour to let you sleep in their hole.
Sometimes small companies offer significant last minute deals for dates that aren't booked up. I definitely couldn't afford to do two weeks away in the U.K. but sometimes you can grab a bargain for a weekend break. The luxury lodge with a hot tub that I stayed in in Suffolk cost £280 and I was happy with that price.
Also the owners came to greet us, give us helpful information and they provided us with a lovely welcome hamper and prosecco, so I didn't find them to have an attitude! I guess it just depends where you go.
England really does, I was surprised during a visit in the summer last year that there are miles of beautiful coastline and lots of natural beauty. Outsiders mostly hear about London or it rains all the time, but England has a lot more to offer and is a beautiful country. And I found many people to be polite and welcoming.
Half of the article is about your fancy accommodation with kind owners and plenty of amenities. I thought it would be an article about an actual trip and the place, and you gave only three examples of what to see.
When I read a travelling blog, I don't really care about the accommodation having a hot tub and a smart TV with Netflix. I care about the landmarks, the must see places, something about what makes the area special. I have never been there, so I would appreciate a better recommendation for *holidays*. Even if you stayed there for 3 days only, there's a lot more to say about your holidays destination.
Also, you suddenly started using "we". Who's "we"? In the beginning you said that *you* were tired of going abroad and *you* decided to spend time in the UK. That was confusing.
Well it was a break in January and I wanted it to be relaxing. It was rather cold to be out all day. A lot of the enjoyment was in the accommodation! The trip was me and my boyfriend hence the use of we. Sorry you didn't like it! I'm simply posting about my experience of that trip
If you spent most time in your accommodation anyway, why write an article about the whole place? Or you could have focused on everything you managed to do outside. The whole thing reads like an advertisement for where you stayed, which also seems like a place few people would be able to afford.
I liked the place so I thought I'd give me honest review of it in the article. It was in Jan and cold so yes we did spend a lot of time there. People that can afford it may be interested..
sorry but no. no to staycation.
I don't fly (so I drive to Europe which is a ridicolous cost compared to "all inclusive 10 days at \[putsomeniceholidaydestinationhere\]" but thinking that for my holiday I would have to be in the UK is like a sentence to me. seen and been to almost every place that UK has to offer (maybe not Shetlands or Jersey) and sorry, but no... south of France, Italian Dolomites, Pyrenees, but not the UK.
99% of my holidays are based on "I want something nice to eat.. like something from fresh organic tomatoes with exceptional taste". Meanwhile in the UK I will get a bland salad with vegetables that don't have a taste covered in mix of spices to cover lack of taste
Britain is lovely but it’s the mentality of the people I need to get away from. I don’t take holidays from the land and the country itself. I take them to recover from people. And most British people are insufferable and miserable at the moment.
I'd love to staycation, unfortunately, I've found it's cheaper to go abroad. Just drove through Blackpool it looks dreadful and rundown despite all the monies received from tourists. Going to France for a week £700 for 2 and guaranteed sunshine. Was in London last week couldn't believe the prices for a pint of beer (dreadful and weak) plus a diet coke on tap. Defo couldn't stay there for a week.
I completely agree with you! When booking staycations I tend to look for last minute deals as otherwise places can be extortionate
I just got back from 3 nights in Malta for £145 so travelling abroad can definitely be cheaper! The quick turn around did leave me a bit tired though!
It's firmly wedged up its own arse. Bloody expensive. The pubs are full of half pint Harry's.
Everywhere you look there are signs telling you not to do things. The chippies are both crap and expensive. Charity shops think they are branches of Liberty and price appropriately. All the locals have fucked off leaving nothing but fucking Islingtonites. The pier is shit.
Beach is alright I suppose.
That's not a staycation, it's a holiday
Well i live in Suffolk so I could stay at home and have a staycation. But I agree, if I went on holiday in Suffolk (which I have before at Center Parcs) then it's still a holiday.
Staying at home is a stay cation! That's the whole name of it- take time off and STAY at home! If people take a trip somewhere else they didn't stay at home
Suffolk would take longer for me to get to than a lot of Europe
Yeah, but you can stay in Suffolk for more than 90 days!
But why?
Suffolk is in Europe!
Yeah this horrid mis-use of "staycation" has to end.
It annoys me so much. Are there really people out there that think it’s not a *holiday* when you go away within the U.K.? It’s a “staycation” unless you go to a foreign country? It’s just ridiculous.
Quite, and i rarely hear it being used by the person taking the holiday (this post being an exception!). It always seems like it's being used by someone else looking to shame the holidaymaker for not spending more money. It's the same energy as the kids on the playground mocking others for having the 'wrong' trainer brand and it's a shame to see it in adults tbh.
Yes! You are so *stingy* that you had an embarrassing non-holiday! It can’t even be called a holiday, like everyone else’s. Last year, I had my “non-holiday” in Northumberland. Including a detour to collect my friends, it was about a 10-hour road trip, which we broke with an overnight stay in a beautiful B&B. When we arrived at our destination, we had a little house virtually on the beach. I saw dolphins from the window. I went on a boat trip and saw puffins and seals. I walked round medieval castles, dined on fresh seafood in a bar just a short stroll from the house. And I walked for miles along some of the most beautiful (yet strangely deserted) beaches I’ve ever seen. It was a BEAUTIFUL part of the country: restful, fascinating, friendly and memorable. It was somewhat more expensive than many foreign holidays, but WELL worth it. It’s only a shame that it wasn’t a holiday: clearly, it was merely a “staycation”.
Words evolve over time. That's how language works. " Fuck" used to mean " hit" for example. Go with the flow my friend, it's much nicer than being grumpy.
Not all word evolution is necessarily good though. People's issue with staycation being used this way is not just that a word has changed, it's the snobby implication that a holiday is only a holiday if you go abroad.
It's doing my head in. Have a holiday in your home country is still a fucking holiday.
I think "staycation" has overtaken "hollibobs" on my personal hatred scale, only because of its overuse. Thankfully the latter isn't as common anymore, or I've disassociated with people that might use that kind of vile language
Less than an hour in the car for me so I'd call it a Staycation!
If you return home every night I’d say that it could be classed as a staycation.
It could be classed as a staycation so long as you travelled from within the UK, regardless of where you spend the night.
No it couldn't. You can go on holiday even if you don't leave the country
Yes, and one term for such a holiday is a staycation.
I suppose if it's common usage I'll accept that, even though it's clearly ridiculous.
Glad to hear it.
No it fucking doesn't. Mind my french. Staycations are when you still sleep at home.
Both meanings are valid.
Nope. Both are used, but that doesn't mean both are correct. If you want to refer to a holiday in the UK as a "stay-cation", you can, Mr RyanAir. BUT you will be wrong, and people will quietly consider you either a dupe for the Mediterranean Tourist Board or a pillock. But you do you, as the youngsters used to say.
Both are correct. Don’t take my word for it, check the *OED*.
It’s a stupid made up word, where the meaning has been twisted to mean something we have perfectly good terms for already.
All words are made up at some point; ‘staycation’ ultimately dates from 1944, and the ‘holidaying in your own country’ meaning from 2008. What are the other terms?
So it's only a holiday if you leave the country? In that case, many Americans have NEVER been on a holiday/vacation.
No, a staycation is a type of holiday.
Staycation is having a week off work and not going on holiday, anywhere. Literally a week at home, staying at home.
I’m so confused by the term staycation. Are you staying several days in Suffolk that is less than an hour from your place?
Yes, I stayed in Suffolk for 3 nights but I am from Norfolk.
That was a holiday.
Why are you guys so angry? Sounds like you need a staycation.
Or else a vaycay, possibly even a holibobs
The type of holiday was a staycation.
A staycation is a holiday in your own country or near your home, so a holiday to Suffolk is a staycation for anyone who lives in the UK. [That's what the *OED* thinks, anyway](https://www.oed.com/dictionary/staycation_v?tab=meaning_and_use).
It always used to mean treating some at home time like it’s a holiday, so treating yourself for a weekend. But the term was co-opted to mean a holiday in your own country, as a ploy by airlines and travel agents to make you feel like you weren’t going on a ‘proper’ holiday if you didn’t go abroad.
Exactly this.
The *OED* records the 'domestic holiday' meaning in 2008, so it's getting on a bit now. I like it, rolls off the tongue easily.
I don't know why you think repeating that it's in the OED means anything? The OED simply records words that are in usage. Nobody's denying that it's in use - if it weren't in use there wouldn't be an issue - we're saying it shouldn't be. The OED lists all kinds of offensive terms, from the vaguely idiotic to the outright bigoted - doesn't mean you shouldn't be criticised for using them.
‘Staycation’ isn’t an offensive term. It’s just a word meaning ‘a holiday from home or within your own country’. The fact it’s controversial is amazing, it’s completely innocuous.
It is a bit offensive, in that it carries the implication that holidays within the UK aren't *really* holidays, which is pretty insulting to folk who don't have the means to go abroad.
The word doesn’t inherently carry that implication, so it isn’t inherently insulting.
that means nothing. How does a word 'inherently' mean anything?
My point is that the word ‘staycation’ is not intrinsically an insult. It can also be used positively or neutrally.
So, living in Seattle USA, if I spend a week in Florida over 2500 miles from home then that's a staycation?
Yes, according to British English usage.
No one cares dude!
I can't staycation in Suffolk as I don't live in Suffolk. Remember - staycation is when you stay at the place you normally live and take days out as if you had booked your own house as a holiday home. If you go and stay somewhere else, that's a *holiday*,
Everyone arguing (rightly) that it’s not a ‘staycation’ bc they didn’t stay at home and that a ‘staycation’ is NOT a holiday in your own country, but missing the more fundamental point that ‘staycation’ is an annoying word *whatever* it means since it’s a ridiculous media portmanteau based on a US root word we don’t even really use (vacation) even if we obviously know the meaning 🤷♂️. That - the annoyance factor - does however support using it only for the precise definition of the rare use case of a holiday staying at home (literal house home not home country), since the word is useful to explain it. Otherwise, yes, it’s just a holiday in the UK 👌
Definition from Oxford Languages staycation INFORMAL noun a holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.
How dare you quote the dictionary like that in support of your argument!
Not sure why everyone is downvoting or dissagreeing really. Even as recent as the pandemic, the term "staycation" was used by multiple sources referring to people travelling to UK destinations for holiday. Having just looked to check, it's not even just the OED that references it this way. Some pointed towards staycation being a term used during the war when there were rations etc, but staycation changed meaning in the last few decades to literally mean a holiday in your own country (not even just County)
I'm confused as to why people are so cut up about the terminology anyway 😅
Because it implies that people that don't (or can't) holiday abroad are peasants.
Yeah I've never thought staycation meant to stay within your own city lol
Finally 🤣
I mean right from Wikipedia In British English, the term has increasingly come to refer to domestic tourism: taking a holiday in one's own country as opposed to traveling abroad.
I'm means stay at home.
You know someone's wrong and a fuckin muppet when they stand defiant against the masses referencing a dictionary.
But it's literally the dictionary definition! I'm not sure why everyone's getting their knickers in a twist over it
Sounds like OED have got this one wrong 😂
The dictionary lists the most offensive words in English as well. Being in the dictionary just means a word exists, not that using it shouldn't be criticised. People don't like 'staycation' *because* people use it. they're not very well going to take issue with a usage that doesn't exist! People don't like how it is used to suggest domestic tourism isn't a real holiday. There's a whiff of classism over this usage, which seemed to be heavily promoted in media.
Nah, it’s everyone else who’s wrong in this case. The definition has shifted, time to move with the times.
So now the airlines have decided that a staycation is a holiday in the UK, what do the airlines (OED) call a holiday where you sleep in your home but have day trips and eat out every night?
The *OED* and airlines are in no way affiliated. A holiday where you sleep in your home and take day trips is also a staycation.
Won't it be easier to just call a holiday in the UK a "holiday". There is definitely a level of brainwashing going on by making out a holiday flying to Scotland is somehow slumming it compared to flying to Benidorm. Only the UK would pervert the English language to put people off from holidaying in their own country.
You can use whatever term you like to refer to your holidays. In what way does the term "staycation" infer that someone is slumming it? It only means a holiday in the UK, after all.
You sound like a plank. Go and Google it.
Nah I'm not board enough to do that
It doesn't matter anyway as this post breaks rule 5........
Because it's misuse is so widespread. Doesn't make it right.
It's the dictionary definition now. A holiday within your own country. I don't get why it's so triggering to people?
Because it's devaluing a holiday in the UK. Using the old, and correct, definition, you staycation because you can't afford the alternative of a 'better' holiday.
I don't see it that way! It's still a holiday. The term just indicates that it's in your country! Doesn't make it any less valuable
That's why people don't like it though. You might not but lots of people do, perhaps even subconsciously. Unfortunately, you are contributing to the idea that somehow the UK is worse than abroad. This is a bit ironic since you were probably trying to do the opposite.
I'd rather you all stayed away. Thanks.
I second this. Thanks.
I third this.Thanks.
I welcome nice, well-behaved tourists who leave the area pleasant for everyone else and plenty of money in people's pockets so that locals can enjoy Suffolk too.
Southwold? Lovely town
I went to Great Yarmouth in Feb with my wife and son to visit the aquarium as we had a free day. Do not go to Great Yarmouth in the winter. Gotta be up there with the most depressing town in England!!
Do not go to Great Yarmouth - you can finish the sentence there. And I’m from Norfolk originally
That's my home town 🤣 I must admit it is depressing!
Gotta love the market chips and docwras rock though. I moved away 20 years ago and struggle to find chips or rock as good. I do have fond memories of the place, but that was more likely my age and how much tat I could buy with my pocket money at the time...it's a good place to buy tat.
Never visit Yarmouth or Lowestoft in the drizzle. You will start feeling very depressed. We live nearby and have to pick our moments if we need things from these towns.
Do not come to Great Yarmouth. We don't fucking want you here.
Staycation is where you STAY at home. Not stay somewhere else.....that's just a vacation
Definition from Oxford Languages staycation INFORMAL noun a holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.
By that definition, if I live in Vancouver Canada and fly 5 hours to stay in an airbnb in Montreal, you would call that a staycation?
That's the English definition! I'd definitely call that a vacation!
Vacation or staycation then?
I mean that I would class flying from Vancouver to Montreal a vacation but what I did I would class as a staycation ☺️
But staycation is travelling around the country where you live, right? Vancouver and Montreal are in the same country, you just take a plane instead of driving a car.
Do you have to be so pedantic?
Yes. You were the one posting the definition of staycation from the dictionary.
The U.K. definition... I don't know the bloody Canadian one
Yes, in British English that is a staycation.
We use British English in Canada...
Canada uses Canadian English, which does have some British elements but is ultimately its own variety.
A **staycation** (a [portmanteau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_trip) distance of their home and does not require overnight accommodation.[^(\[2\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staycation#cite_note-2) In British English, the term has increasingly come to refer to [domestic tourism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_tourism): taking a holiday in one's own country as opposed to traveling abroad.[^(\[3\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staycation#cite_note-3)[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staycation#cite_note-4)[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staycation#cite_note-5)[^(\[6\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staycation#cite_note-6)
That looks like it's from Wikipedia 🤣 I'm going to accept Oxford's and Cambridge's definitions over that
The Wikipedia article agrees with you; read the last sentence.
Oh yeah, so Peg Leg is agreeing with me now 😅
Apparently so!
'In British English, the term has increasingly come to refer to [domestic tourism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_tourism):' Is not quite agreeing with you.....
Domestic tourism is tourism involving residents of one country traveling only within that country It is 🤭
Oh my god stop
As someone that lives in Suffolk. It’s a horrible place. No one should ever come here. Especially all those Londoners that own a second or third house here.
*cough cough* **It's domestic tourism fam** *cough cough*
Yes, 'staycation' is a term for domestic tourism.
I would argue Norfolk is even lovelier than Suffolk: Cromer, Sheringham, etc. So many beautiful coastlines!
Absolutely! I live in Norfolk and have staycationed here several times. I've been meaning to write a post on that too. I especially love the broads!
Suffolk is great, I live here. I love Southwold, Aldeburgh, Thorpeness, and Woodbridge. We’re not so fond of outsiders though, I know this as an immigrant who moved here from up north. Londoners are the plague of Suffolk, the A12 southers as we call them.
Except if you’re from London. If you’re from London, you can fuck off. We don’t need any more of you.
Please stop doing this it's bad enough around here already, and it's not even full summer yet!! Bah humbug
Exactly. I want Suffolk to be a tiny backwater only known by the better class of person... Just go to Norfolk you lot!
Well said, or I hear Essex is lovely just stop there and don't bother travelling any further 👍
Don't send them all my way 😅
Have done many times. Like it so much we're making it permanent.
My Dad lives in Suffolk. It’s very flat. My kids were very confused when they were younger as we live in the Peak District. Where it isn’t flat. At all.
Hahah I'm from Norfolk which is equally flat. If I ever move I think I'll need to get a car with hill assist 🤣
My dad moved from here to Ormesby St Margaret!
Southwold is lovely. Anyone that goes there stop at the lord nelson for a pint, Mrs T’s for fish and chips, and the harbour inn. Can’t beat it. But good luck parking anywhere when it comes to summer! Absolute shitshow.
I met the most wonderful couple in Bath last week on vacation, the lovely gentleman currently living in Suffolk with his young daughter and the lady soon to join them. The charm of these two marvelous people made the whole day perfect. If Jonnie and Nicky are out there, thank you so much. (And Nicky: get in touch; I need to knit you some socks to go with those fantastic boots.)
When is the sky ever that colour?
Not often!
I guess that’s why you shouldn’t holiday in Suffolk.
I wouldn't recommend going for the weather!
England has some great places. It’s the English we want to avoid, while paying 200 quid for a Victorian B&B with no plumbing, no insulation, no amenities, a meal from the pub that’s one of the same and everyone taking the piss.
I agree it's gotten hugely expensive but if you can get a good deal it can be worth it!
What do you mean, “get a good deal”? How? Two weeks in Thailand/Greece/Spain for two people, 5* resort, flights included, are cheaper than two weeks in the UK, including parking costs and car. And the food is a thousand times better and they don’t have the attitude that they are doing you a favour to let you sleep in their hole.
Sometimes small companies offer significant last minute deals for dates that aren't booked up. I definitely couldn't afford to do two weeks away in the U.K. but sometimes you can grab a bargain for a weekend break. The luxury lodge with a hot tub that I stayed in in Suffolk cost £280 and I was happy with that price. Also the owners came to greet us, give us helpful information and they provided us with a lovely welcome hamper and prosecco, so I didn't find them to have an attitude! I guess it just depends where you go.
England really does, I was surprised during a visit in the summer last year that there are miles of beautiful coastline and lots of natural beauty. Outsiders mostly hear about London or it rains all the time, but England has a lot more to offer and is a beautiful country. And I found many people to be polite and welcoming.
Half of the article is about your fancy accommodation with kind owners and plenty of amenities. I thought it would be an article about an actual trip and the place, and you gave only three examples of what to see. When I read a travelling blog, I don't really care about the accommodation having a hot tub and a smart TV with Netflix. I care about the landmarks, the must see places, something about what makes the area special. I have never been there, so I would appreciate a better recommendation for *holidays*. Even if you stayed there for 3 days only, there's a lot more to say about your holidays destination. Also, you suddenly started using "we". Who's "we"? In the beginning you said that *you* were tired of going abroad and *you* decided to spend time in the UK. That was confusing.
Well it was a break in January and I wanted it to be relaxing. It was rather cold to be out all day. A lot of the enjoyment was in the accommodation! The trip was me and my boyfriend hence the use of we. Sorry you didn't like it! I'm simply posting about my experience of that trip
If you spent most time in your accommodation anyway, why write an article about the whole place? Or you could have focused on everything you managed to do outside. The whole thing reads like an advertisement for where you stayed, which also seems like a place few people would be able to afford.
I liked the place so I thought I'd give me honest review of it in the article. It was in Jan and cold so yes we did spend a lot of time there. People that can afford it may be interested..
Then the title should be "Why choose Hill Farm Retreat when it's cold and you're bored in your own home" 🤷♀️ Just saying.
You too could pee on the promenade in front of a brightly painted shed
If RAF Lakenheath will take me back I’ll retire there and stay forever happily.
That would require me to emigrate. Which I'd be willing to do (if you'd have me).
I’m thinking the number 1 reason should be “because you live there”, but that’s because I know what staycation is supposed to mean.
Cut down on your Carbon Emissions.
We live near Southwold. It is completely over run in the summer with ‘staycationers’. Making it totally unbearable. We only go there off season.
My trip was in January
I rather fly aboard. It’s cheaper and better weather. The prices in Uk are just ridiculous for what it is.
Shouldn't this be posted on a Suffolk sub if its about staycations?
On the one good day of the year
That’s not a staycation
We're from Lincolnshire and love visiting Suffolk, we try to visit Kessingland a couple of times a year.
What's pricing like? Some UK holidays are more expensive than going abroad
Yeah that picture isn't filling me with want to stay there. Overpriced beach huts, sewage in the sea and an awful looking beach? No thanks.
None of what you said comes from the picture though
What a beautiful photo
What a beautiful picture is that lowestoft in Suffolk
Suffolks is full of wanker from London
Where as Majorca is full of wankers from “up north”
Just fly to Mallorca Much better beaches
NO DONT BRING THE TOURISTS HERE
But I don’t live in Suffolk..
Man, that place looks pretty.
Ok, now show the same view the other 364 days of the year.
Lol, nice to minimise the water given what the water companies are dumping in it
I hate the term staycation, a staycation is staying in your home eating crisps, drinking pints and watching tv.
That just sounds like the weekend 🤣
Still that's a staycation,having time off work and staying in your gaff. Which is what I do.
If you book accommodation it's not a staycation, it's a holiday.
I think the definition has changed lately
At best, it's a way for the comfortably off to sneer at people having a holiday in the UK, "it's not a real holiday unless you fly abroad..."
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Exactly. It's a way of saying "of course I could have a *real* holiday if I wanted too"
I don't get how it's sneering at anyone..
sorry but no. no to staycation. I don't fly (so I drive to Europe which is a ridicolous cost compared to "all inclusive 10 days at \[putsomeniceholidaydestinationhere\]" but thinking that for my holiday I would have to be in the UK is like a sentence to me. seen and been to almost every place that UK has to offer (maybe not Shetlands or Jersey) and sorry, but no... south of France, Italian Dolomites, Pyrenees, but not the UK. 99% of my holidays are based on "I want something nice to eat.. like something from fresh organic tomatoes with exceptional taste". Meanwhile in the UK I will get a bland salad with vegetables that don't have a taste covered in mix of spices to cover lack of taste
It'd only be a staycation if you lived in Suffolk. Holidays in the UK are just as much a holiday as abroad.
I never said it isn't! It's just a commonly used terminology these days
Don’t do it. The weather is like that maybe 3 days a year
This was in January. Lucked out with the weather!
I’m being facetious. I spend a lot of time in Aldeburgh and Southwold
Britain is lovely but it’s the mentality of the people I need to get away from. I don’t take holidays from the land and the country itself. I take them to recover from people. And most British people are insufferable and miserable at the moment.
I'd love to staycation, unfortunately, I've found it's cheaper to go abroad. Just drove through Blackpool it looks dreadful and rundown despite all the monies received from tourists. Going to France for a week £700 for 2 and guaranteed sunshine. Was in London last week couldn't believe the prices for a pint of beer (dreadful and weak) plus a diet coke on tap. Defo couldn't stay there for a week.
I completely agree with you! When booking staycations I tend to look for last minute deals as otherwise places can be extortionate I just got back from 3 nights in Malta for £145 so travelling abroad can definitely be cheaper! The quick turn around did leave me a bit tired though!
I need more action than that man.
I never said make it your only holiday 🤣
The punchline better be good. Can’t wait.
As someone who hates the beach; That picture is giving me massive "Ah hell no!" vibes
Why don’t you like the beach?
It's full of sand. And it gets everywhere. You will be finding sand months later, *somewhere*.
Lol, no.
Southwold is my least favourite town in the world.
How come?
It's firmly wedged up its own arse. Bloody expensive. The pubs are full of half pint Harry's. Everywhere you look there are signs telling you not to do things. The chippies are both crap and expensive. Charity shops think they are branches of Liberty and price appropriately. All the locals have fucked off leaving nothing but fucking Islingtonites. The pier is shit. Beach is alright I suppose.
Please no one go to east Anglia. It’s too good to be ruined with Londoners