It’s not a staycation if you’re travelling to somewhere else in the UK.
It’s only a staycation if you are remaining in your house.
This is a hill that I will die on.
The context for this is several Daily Mail (yes, it’s the Daily Mail therefore it will be wrong), and other tabloids who are staffed by journalists who don’t understand what a staycation is.
Also, yes, I know the prices of caravans and motorhomes have increased since May but JFC people, these things haven’t increased in price due to staycations. They’ve increased in price due to people taking mobile holidays in the UK.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
Alright, alright, calm down: if Covid don’t getcha, then your blood pressure will.
But you are – of course – correct.
You’ll also find that it’s only a staycation, if you are dumb enough to actually use this stupid word to describe your holiday.
And unfortunately (having just checked), it seems Doctor Bing disagrees with you/us:
NOUN
informal
a holiday spent in one’s home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.
May I draw the honourable gentleman’s attention to the fact that Dr Bing is, in fact, a colonial and is, therefore, not entirely trustworthy?