UK holiday boom: Bookings 'coming in thick and fast'
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With new hotel quarantine rules for arrivals from abroad, many people are seeking UK holidays instead.
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Welcome to the 1960s.
Fewer flights is good for the planet, no?
Aviation is a tiny amount compared to the amount that's created by rampant consumerism of electronic devices and cloths.
Its just easy to bash because its so iconic.
Its just easy to bash because its so iconic.
Possibly, but sitting in a 20 mile queue on the M5 with the air-con on full might somewhat negate that effect!
Not necessarily. Depends what travel is replacing it. If lots of people take cars from London to Cornwall, and sit in traffic jams, it may be worse than a flight to France, even if some of those cars are hybrid or electric and they would have had to travel to the airport.
True. Let's not import star fruit, quinoa etc. Vegies thing they are saving the planet. They will be if they stick to seasonal fruit and veg.
I think you'll find air travel is actually less polluting than originally thought
Just waiting for Labour to press the government for specific dates for good weather guarantees.
Labour's deputy leader reckons she knows better than England's deputy chief medical officer as to who should be vaccinated first.
It is embarrassing.
It is embarrassing.
Labour?? The mishandling of this entire pandemic is a Tory shambles. There have been 100,000 deaths and not one resignation. The Torys are a national disgrace.
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Amazing. Demonstrably one of the worst handlings of this pandemic by any world government, and still people are performing gymnastics to blame Labour.
You are brainwashed. You sound utterly moronic. Removed
You are brainwashed. You sound utterly moronic. Removed
Wonderful bit on Peston last night when a Labour spokesperson called for all school staff to be vaccinated over half term. Peston then asked "so you'd delay jabs for 50-70 year olds?" Answer? "No, because we'd be doing them at the same time "
Anyone see the mathematical flaw in that thinking......!?
Anyone see the mathematical flaw in that thinking......!?
Very good. Or ... wait until November and say (retrospectively) that the government failed to predict the cloud formations over Cumbria. :)
Either you are being ironic or that is a truly asinine remark. Somehow I suspect the latter.
A bit political but also very funny si I've voted it up
What an absolute waste of an HYS topic thats zero to do with party politics.
Give us a little holiday from this inane banter please
Give us a little holiday from this inane banter please
But they'll tell you tomorrow if the sunshined yesterday ??
They will only tell us after the event.
Everything in hindsight with Starmer.
Everything in hindsight with Starmer.
Labour would recommend February and November
Just some helpful vocabulary for Robert Plummer. A staycation 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". Holidaying in the UK is called a "holiday", and many many people who can't afford to travel abroad regularly enjoy them all the time.
It's cheaper to travel abroad. Guaranteed good weather, good food (if you go to the South of France) and reasonably priced accommodation - and not so densely populated.
Absolutely right. It's like language gentrification. Also there is very little cost difference between a holiday abroad and a holiday in the UK, so the sneery tone accorded to the term 'staycation' is unjustified.
That's a problem these days, especially on television. They use words where it's obvious they have no idea of the meaning
Right or wrong, I think you will find the entire media are now calling it a StayCation.
It's now a word that the nation has come to take as the media saying we are not taking foreign holidays.
All this moaning about the terminology isn't really a comment about the actual article.
It's now a word that the nation has come to take as the media saying we are not taking foreign holidays.
All this moaning about the terminology isn't really a comment about the actual article.
In practice it has been used you describe starting in the UK, but not at home, for a long time now.
Having said that, if the virus isn't under control by then, this is not going to be helpful, even if it is summer.
Having said that, if the virus isn't under control by then, this is not going to be helpful, even if it is summer.
Spot on. I haven't been abroad for over 10 years, partly due to a dislike of flying but also because there are so many great places in the UK to visit (and indeed revisit). People need to get out of the mindset that a holiday in the UK (which can involve hours of travelling if you don't go by plane) somehow doesn't count as a real holiday.
Thank you iapetus. Personally I find the word staycation almost offensive. It makes it sound as if holidaying in the U.K. is somehow second best to a booze-fuelled Med. vac or the dubious delights of Bangkok. My wife and I have holidayed in Britain for the last 45 years, and we don't own passports. Scotland and Cornwall are to be treasured. And, despite The Sun headline, Bognor is delightful!
More help for Robert Plummer: As the BBC is a British company, not an American, it's 'enquiry' not 'inquiry'. Even the BBC says so!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1535_questionanswer/page22.shtml
https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1535_questionanswer/page22.shtml
This is the BBC where journalism and the correct use of English is a thing of the past.
Plummer's definition, according to every definitive source, is incorrect - the word has been around since about 1902 and has always meant a holiday at home or in one's own country.
I think it worked, there is now no mention of "staycation" in the article! . Another really really nasty habit from the BBC to keep HYS open on changed articles to make original posters look stupid. I have complained, numerous times. But of course the BBC regulates itself, you can't complain about the BBC to Ofcom, only to the BBC, which ignores you.
I agree with your take on "staycation". However, some of us don't like travelling, or can't, so it is not just a matter of cost. We holiday in the UK a lot and believe me depending on where you stay and what kind of restaurants you go to it is in no way cheap.
Shouldn't it be "enquiries" rather than "inquiries" ?
With you on this. The amount of UK Holiday Companies that refer to a Holiday in the UK as a staycation or Holistay does my head in.
You're wrong.
'A holiday spent at home or in one’s country of residence.' (OED)
'A holiday spent at home or in one’s country of residence.' (OED)
Vocabulary, along with spelling and grammar, are no longer strong points for the BBC. The new champions of diversity. Diversity of ability.
There’s many places in the UK I haven’t been to - Lake District, Kent etc.
Hopefully if people behave themselves I can explore one of these areas in Sept
Hopefully if people behave themselves I can explore one of these areas in Sept
Your faith in the people to behave themselves is rather misplaced. Remember how Joe Public ignored the rules last summer and piled on to the beaches and parked all over Snowdonia. It'll be the same this year..... and the virus will spread!
I wouldn't bother with the Lake District, it's just a load of lakes. And once you've seen one the others all look the same.
Kent? Bless. Try Cornwall, same edge of Britain, better side, better sunsets, could go on but don't want to offend....
Bring on paying more for rain and/or overcrowding and/or travel gridlock on the roads - as supposed to paying less but getting sunshine and the experience of going abroad.
Jeez, can't you do without it for one year? I've enjoyed many holidays in sunnier places around the world, but I've also had many lovely holidays in the UK.
I would agree. Hotels and self-catering accommodation are overpriced in the UK. If everyone heads down to Cornwall, it will be traffic chaos. I'd prefer to wait until it's safe to travel to the south of France - fantastic weather, good food and cheaper accommodation.
Sorry I thought there was a pandemic on? Same silly story as last summer, and then the pandemic continued. Its just the tourist industry trying to say its okay to holiday everyone else is.....Just wait, another lockdown in October for Christmas again.
*bing bong bing*
Hi-de-hi campers! The knobbly knees competition will be starting by the Punch and Judy stand in 5 minutes' time.
*bing bong bing*
Hi-de-hi campers! The knobbly knees competition will be starting by the Punch and Judy stand in 5 minutes' time.
*bing bong bing*
Isn't that Benidorm?
Got 2 weeks in North Devon booked for late June, not holding my breath though!!
June? Oh dear.
This is excellent news for the beleaguered UK hospitality sector. A captive (literally) market of 60 million people will provide plenty of customers for domestic tourism. There are many beautiful parts of the UK to enjoy. Let's hope we will be able to do so by summer!
(We've already booked the Isle of Wight)
(We've already booked the Isle of Wight)
Beleaguered is a good descriptor.
So beleaguered there are very few still standing.
So beleaguered there are very few still standing.
Beware of self-catering accommodation sites/agents who require large deposits but then refuse to provide refunds for forced cancellations.
I hate the media calling UK holidays as staycations. They aren’t as the first part of staycation is stay. You stay at home and travel to a tourist attraction, town etc and go home at the end of the day. This means during normal times, I done at least one staycation per 4-6 weeks on average
Staycation definition?
I think you need to get out more.
I think you need to get out more.
I can't stand that poncy "staycation" word either Helen, why do the media keep coming up with these trendy , twee, non- sensical words.
OED Definition-staycation
NOUN
A holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.
NOUN
A holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.
I'll just stay at home and have some day trips. I still think accommodation in this country is below standard and expensive. I won't join the rush to bump up prices further.
totally agree, we'll be doing the same
Me too, some of the hotels in this country are an absolute disgrace. a 'holiday' in the UK should be cheaper than one overseas, not more expensive. The UK industry needs to slash its prices.
Already seeing it. Can't believe the cost of cottages now compared to two years ago.
I'm guessing your income has remained secure if you are so begrudging of hard-pressed small businesses trying to get back on their feet?
Have you researched prices are the same on the websites as they were pre pandemic
Supply & demand fix prices, first rule of economics.
Bring on paying more for rain and/or overcrowding and/or travel gridlock on the roads - as supposed to paying less but getting sunshine and the experience of going abroad.
Of course I can do without it for a year - doesn't change the fact though that its less bang for your buck.
Great news for our tourism industry. After last summers weather who needs to go abroad if this is the new norm ? We have some beautiful countryside and coastlines all around the U.K.
And massive traffic queues. Four and a half hours from West Cornwall to just south of Bristol last September
So instead of going overseas to get Covid19, we're going to make sure it's well spread all around the UK this summer. Great.
Some brains work differently to others, and some don’t work at all. This is a prime example of the latter.
Its ironic that a lot of the people championing UK holidays last year, and lambasting those who took foreign holidays, were probably the same sort of people who would advocate being crammed onto a UK beach cheek by jowel with literally thousands of others.
We went to Corfu, it was safe, quiet and sunny. And, we're going again this year too.
We went to Corfu, it was safe, quiet and sunny. And, we're going again this year too.
I would remind you that we went in to lock down late march last year and cases were relatively stable through the summer, now we're in a lighter lockdown but likely for longer whilst vaccinating people, I'd hedge my bets that unless we have abysmal weather this summer holidays out in the countryside won't be the main vector. just days ago we were told meeting inside is still the main source???????
Again - a holiday in the UK is called (guess what) a "holiday". The point of a 'staycation' was supposed to be that you stayed in your own house. The re-branding of this has been done by travel & flight companies to encourage the view that it's not a 'proper' holiday unless you fly somewhere, which is nonsense.
I agree, henceforth going abroad should be called a Sunny Hot break, reserving the term Holiday for the UK.
Nothing wrong with needing a jumper and windbreak for the beach as opposed to a sun lounger and parasol.
Nothing wrong with needing a jumper and windbreak for the beach as opposed to a sun lounger and parasol.
"Again - a holiday in the UK is called (guess what) a "holiday". The point of a 'staycation' was supposed to be that you stayed in your own house"
It isn't. Check the OED definition of staycation. It's pretty easy to do.
It isn't. Check the OED definition of staycation. It's pretty easy to do.
I work for a travel company. We call it Domestic and Outbound destinations.
I hate the media calling UK holidays as staycations. They aren’t as the first part of staycation is stay. You stay at home and travel to a tourist attraction, town etc and go home at the end of the day. This means during normal times, I done at least one staycation per 4-6 weeks on average
Have you tried that recently?
I would 'get out more' if it wasn't for government restrictions.
Just waiting for Labour to press the government for specific dates for good weather guarantees.
But she's useless.
Teachers are apparently more of a priority for vaccination than any other group of workers according to Labour
Let them try teaching when the electricity goes off, the taps run dry and the sewage is overflowing in the streets, and there’s no food in the shops
Let them try teaching when the electricity goes off, the taps run dry and the sewage is overflowing in the streets, and there’s no food in the shops
And point blank refuses to say who from the high risk 50 -70 year old group should go to the back of the queue. It's like they send her out with a soundbite and that's the limit of her knowledge. That's not opposition it's pitiful opportunism.
Solution is easy: just put everyone on top of the priority list. Deniers will say it can't be done...
How did we get from UK holidays to rants about politicians - unless that is of course your preferred choice of a vacation - no need to take your vest off! Lol
Embarrassing, like our borders remaining open since March and Brexit.
Dorset is far superior than anything Cornwall has to offer. Cornwall is just an overrated tourist trap. Come to where the flavour is... Come to Dorset...
The BBC thinks it knows better than Scotland's chief medical officer so that's nothing new.
I personally find it embarassing how easily rattled bootlicker Tory voters get whenever anyone suggests that the clowns they voted for have made a circus out of the pandemic...
MuST BE LaBOur'S FAulT!
MuST BE LaBOur'S FAulT!
Not as embarrassing as Boris and his useless cabinet. We have a World Beating death rate. Doesn't get much more embarrassing than that.
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I understand that her life experiences can be learned from. But the shadow deputy PM is strictly opposition material, not government.
Stop the race to the bottom!! Teachers, transport workers, supermarket workers should all be done ASAP. Always so divisive on here.
Bring on paying more for rain and/or overcrowding and/or travel gridlock on the roads - as supposed to paying less but getting sunshine and the experience of going abroad.
Suggest BBC journalists look up the definition of a "staycation", it means one holidays in their own home, no booking required and it is what we have all being doing on and off for months now! Tardy "journalism" at best from another over-paid, ill informed BBC journo.
Suggest commenters look up the definition of "tardy'.
Please replace "Tardy" with "Squit".
A much more accurate noun to describe a sub-standard level of journalism trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
A much more accurate noun to describe a sub-standard level of journalism trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
How do you know they are over paid? How is the pay in comparison to other Journos? Do they earn 250k a year as Johnson did for 1 article a week for msm?
Also, staycation . Like literally has had the meaning of the word changed. The English language evolves
Also, staycation . Like literally has had the meaning of the word changed. The English language evolves
"Suggest BBC journalists look up the definition of a "staycation", it means one holidays in their own home"
I suggest you take your own advice and refer to the OED, which says otherwise.
I suggest you take your own advice and refer to the OED, which says otherwise.
Another non-news item. How are the sales of Easter eggs going?
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Is there anything more teeth-grindingly irritating than terms such as "staycation"?
The use of 'gift' as a noun. Argh.
‘Mental health, now more than ever and we are all in this together” are all contenders at the moment.
It's the rush-to-the-bottom lunge our society is making in emulating low vocabulary inarticulate Americans.
It's the striving by journalists to be 'down-wid-da-kids' in adopting their slang and in reproducing in subtitles every single meaningless 'like' that now feature in every single sentence of breathy yoof.
It's the fact that no-one under 25 has learnt any descriptive words beyond 'insane'.
It's the striving by journalists to be 'down-wid-da-kids' in adopting their slang and in reproducing in subtitles every single meaningless 'like' that now feature in every single sentence of breathy yoof.
It's the fact that no-one under 25 has learnt any descriptive words beyond 'insane'.
Outside OF!!
No.
'Jab' instead of 'vaccination', are journalists too lazy to use long words now?
'key worker', 'in these difficult times', 'been' instead of 'being', and a thousand more!
People describing themselves as a "social media influencer" perhaps?
Yes, the people who make hyper-pedantic pointless whinges about a term that is commonly known to mean holidaying in the UK. Get over it and moan about things worth moaning about i.e. things that actually harm quality of life.
Yes, the increasing use of the words "leverage" and "consume" to mean "use"
eg.
"This new application will allow the user to leverage the power of the internet to..."
eg.
"This new application will allow the user to leverage the power of the internet to..."
To quote Captain Holt; 'Are you trying to imply that I'm too old to understand a portmanteau? I am not, but I am too dignified to use one'.
Love that guy!
Love that guy!
Using the term "Baby" without "the" and instead of the baby's name?
The use of “soundbite”-type words for dramatic effect is getting worse.
The word “lockdown” is another case - the weak restrictions that are currently in force are nothing like a lockdown.
The word “lockdown” is another case - the weak restrictions that are currently in force are nothing like a lockdown.
“Staycation” is based on the word “vacation”, which is American for “holiday”.
Shouldn’t we be calling it a “Stayliday”?
Shouldn’t we be calling it a “Stayliday”?
I cannot stand phrases such as: "needs doing" instead of "needs to be done". Lazy language use !
The constant use by the media of the word "epicentre", as in "the epicentre of the pandemic in Europe". The correct word is "centre", stop using "epicentre" to make yourselves sound clever. You're not.
I will touch base with my colleagues and do some brain storming to see if their blue sky thinking can come up with any. I guestimate that they will.
I am 200% confident in that.
I am 200% confident in that.
I hate the term 'offer' when used in relation to goods or services which a firm provides.
Also, 'talent' when talking about staff. That suggests they are in some way very good at their job, when the reality is usually average or less. "At McDonalds we attract the best talent to serve our customers" etc etc.
Also, 'talent' when talking about staff. That suggests they are in some way very good at their job, when the reality is usually average or less. "At McDonalds we attract the best talent to serve our customers" etc etc.
People moaning about the evolution of language on a forum?
Thanks all - this thread has brightened my day - a pleasant change with HYS posts!
Doubt many would agree with my offering, but personally, and without wishing to diminish its true intent, I've found that the overuse and over-generalised use of 'loved ones' has begun to grate over the months ...
Doubt many would agree with my offering, but personally, and without wishing to diminish its true intent, I've found that the overuse and over-generalised use of 'loved ones' has begun to grate over the months ...
Yes. People who get irritated by words and feel the need to tell everyone.
I have two for you: the term "ramping up", and the misuse of the word "literally" when actually they should be using "figuratively."
The staycation itself?
A Staycation LOL - this is a normal family holiday for a lot of people - just because you do not holiday abroad doesn't make it a staycation - a holiday in the UK is still a holiday!
Holidays in Europe can be far cheaper than the equivalent accomodation/facilities in the UK and you don't have to fly to get there.
Very true. And let us hope that those who decide to holiday in the UK learn to respect the UK countryside in the same way that those who normally visit the countryside do.
Last year was disgraceful, with masses of litter, nappies etc left after each nice day; County code completely ignored, and fragile environments damaged.
Last year was disgraceful, with masses of litter, nappies etc left after each nice day; County code completely ignored, and fragile environments damaged.
I hate the media calling UK holidays as staycations. They aren’t as the first part of staycation is stay. You stay at home and travel to a tourist attraction, town etc and go home at the end of the day. This means during normal times, I done at least one staycation per 4-6 weeks on average
Took me nine - but there was a 'jumper' on the M5. Maybe the same day?
There are other places you know. TV to blame for constantly promoting the west Counties.
Think you need to think outside the box and not follow the flocks of sheep.
Plenty of other dare say it, sheep of free area's of the UK to holiday in besides the west coast of England with much better access too. Rather like the Euro Hot spots and beyond.
Where you may say?
Take the opportunity when you have got it Seek, Explore and you will find I say before the rest of the sheep spoil it.
Plenty of other dare say it, sheep of free area's of the UK to holiday in besides the west coast of England with much better access too. Rather like the Euro Hot spots and beyond.
Where you may say?
Take the opportunity when you have got it Seek, Explore and you will find I say before the rest of the sheep spoil it.
Just some helpful vocabulary for Robert Plummer. A staycation 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". Holidaying in the UK is called a "holiday", and many many people who can't afford to travel abroad regularly enjoy them all the time.
Have you factored in the cost of the 10 day hotel quarantine stay when you return??
France is the one country I am boycotting. Nasty little emperor.
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Errrm? You know there is a pandemic going on? We won't be able to get on a flight or ferry anyway.
Guaranteed good weather? Where do you go to? I've had rain in Tenerife in June. Nowhere has guaranteed good weather!
no guarantee of good weather even abroad .we have always holidayd here in july/aug and had good weather everytime never been abroad and dont want to 2 hrs at airport poss delays no thank you so many wonderful places in britain to visit hoping to try scotland next year looks wonderful
I did go to the south of France at least once a year and depending on where you're going/what you're doing, it's no cheaper than a domestic holiday, just much better food and wine.
If you want cheap you want Magaluf.
If you want cheap you want Magaluf.
Agree, last Holiday- 2 weeks all inclusive in Catalonia, mid 30s temp.£2k family of 4.. now I am not usually snobby BUT last UK break 2 weeks self catering in Devon £3k just for the accom, poor weather for 10 /14 days , - it was full of the a well known tabloid dong £9.50 holidays,was like Wayne and wayneta slob had invaded kids - smoking and drinking and effin if you asked them to calm down)
... but not cheaper if you book something, and you still can't travel due to coronavirus. And do we really know how Brexit is affecting tourism?
People should bear in mind that right now the advice is against travelling, so unless that changes at some point between now and when you are due to go, a cancellation claim will almost certainly NOT be covered by insurance.
People should bear in mind that right now the advice is against travelling, so unless that changes at some point between now and when you are due to go, a cancellation claim will almost certainly NOT be covered by insurance.
Please take your foreign holiday.
I won't be joining you because the UK will be nicer and quieter in your absence.
I won't be joining you because the UK will be nicer and quieter in your absence.
Tell me where you can get a 7 day stay abroad, for 3 people, including travel, for less than £700 all in...
Not if you have to quarantine when you come back. If the NZ experience is anything to go by, you might actually have to pay for the quarantine hotel.
Or why not do the right thing, support the local economy and stay here. We need to get the UK back up and running again
yes, maybe ...... as long as the French are not in one of their stroppy moods that can be a nightmare either trying to get in or out of Calais
Yes, all the more reason for the greedy to ramp up prices to silly money levels. Then the local restaurants that are left will be overrun, the roads clogged. All in all it sounds like a nightmare there's nothing worse than braying hoards in overcrowded British holiday spots, I can't see how that is classed as a holiday.
Terrifying for residents too.
Tourist accommodation in this country is a complete rip off, especially at the coast. Also will it really be safe to have a big free for all in the summer? This reminds me of eat out to help out.
Go out of season it's cheaper, quieter and the chances are the weather is better!
I usually go in the spring or autumn months or even late June/early July just before the kids break up. As I'm single I save a fortune, also make sure that your booking is cancelable in the event of another lockdown or other unforeseen circumstances. That way you're fully protected.
This could be a fantastic opportunity for the British tourist industry, but i fear greed will take its toll.
What's left of it, you mean.
I fear it's more likely that hospitality won't be able to find any staff.
By the summer we won't have a British Tourist industry, no pubs and few restaurants or cafés.
I would rather we stopped this head in sand lockdown farce immediately.
A new variety will emerge as we stop this lockdown, then we will continue that cycle of lockdowns until we are bankrupted. All the while our immune systems are being destroyed by hiding from everything making us even more vulnerable.
I would rather we stopped this head in sand lockdown farce immediately.
A new variety will emerge as we stop this lockdown, then we will continue that cycle of lockdowns until we are bankrupted. All the while our immune systems are being destroyed by hiding from everything making us even more vulnerable.
I agree Unigate2.
This will be good for the economy and for small businesses.
I just hope that people are sensible and look after / respect our countryside. We live in a National Park and it has been VERY disappointing to see the ignorance of day-trippers leaving litter on beaches / mountains etc ... over this period.
This will be good for the economy and for small businesses.
I just hope that people are sensible and look after / respect our countryside. We live in a National Park and it has been VERY disappointing to see the ignorance of day-trippers leaving litter on beaches / mountains etc ... over this period.
Well to be fair if your business had had to close for over a year you'd be wanting to recoup your losses too and don't forget that when supply is outstripped by demand the prices go up, market dynamics and all that.
Some of my best holidays have been in the UK. I have been all over England and Wales, and hope to go to Scotland next year for a 3-week road trip. There are some spectacular places in the UK e.g. St Michaels Mount, Snowdonia, Yorkshire Dales, Exmoor.
Only downside has been having to use the M25 each time we leave Kent!
Only downside has been having to use the M25 each time we leave Kent!
Northumberland coast is one of the best holidays I have ever had.
Well, best advice for 2021 is stay in Kent. Sorry but that makes sense.
So instead of going overseas to get Covid19, we're going to make sure it's well spread all around the UK this summer. Great.
I wonder if the BBC charge for this kind of free advertising. My business could definitely do with an article like this to boost my income.
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Clutching at straws again! False hopes and expectations. More pressure being put on the government to open things up, so that Joe Public can plant themselves on the beaches, mog around Stratford and park their cars all over Snowdonia. Stay at (your) home. That way we all stay safe and protect the NHS.
The NHS is supposed to protect us, if it can't it should be replaced as not fit for purpose.
For how long? Its true isn't it, that only a small period of imprisonment quickly brings institutionalisation, and acceptance that 'this is fine'. The thought of staying in my home 23 hours out of 24 ... for any reason ... makes me not want to see tomorrow. This is existing, not living.
It's not a staycation unless you stay at home. Please can you stop calling holidaying in the UK a staycation. Call it a domestic holiday if you must use a special term.
Yep. We used to go regularly to camp sites in France. But it will be quite a while before we feel safe using those shared toilets and showers. We are thinking of booking self-vcatering accommodation in Scotland if Nicola Sturgeon re-opens the border.
The use of “soundbite”-type words for dramatic effect is getting worse.
The word “lockdown” is another case - the weak restrictions that are currently in force are nothing like a lockdown.
The word “lockdown” is another case - the weak restrictions that are currently in force are nothing like a lockdown.
Or a miserable holiday. (unless you are going to Scotland, which is lovely)
It would be good to see other parts of the UK. For example, if you live in East London, you could travel to, errrr, West London. If you live in North London you could travel to, errrr, South London.
Crazy fool, I don't go south of the river after dark.
Staycation - Staying at home during your summer break or staying somewhere else in your home country? There are way too many places to explore within the British Isles to ever contemplate leaving our shores. Those that disagree should get out more.
And those that think nobody else should go anywhere but within their own Country are clealy narrowminded, short sighted and should keep their own opinions to themselves.
NO! Those that disagree should lock-down, they tend to be the covid cultists, let them lock themselves away, and the rest of us can get on with our lives.
That's very narrow minded. there are a few places of note, but believe me, the world outside of the UK is well worth exploring, this country is ok, but not special at all.
Fewer flights is good for the planet, no?
Peace be with you, Adubyah.
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Just some helpful vocabulary for Robert Plummer. A staycation 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". Holidaying in the UK is called a "holiday", and many many people who can't afford to travel abroad regularly enjoy them all the time.
*bing bong bing*
Hi-de-hi campers! The knobbly knees competition will be starting by the Punch and Judy stand in 5 minutes' time.
*bing bong bing*
Hi-de-hi campers! The knobbly knees competition will be starting by the Punch and Judy stand in 5 minutes' time.
*bing bong bing*
Can't people just enjoy what's on their doorstep? I know this lockdown is getting tedious, but I'd be happy enjoying the Peak District with friends this summer.
With people shifting around the country all summer - and cramming onto beaches like last year - they'll likely cause a mid-summer full lockdown due to infection rates.
With people shifting around the country all summer - and cramming onto beaches like last year - they'll likely cause a mid-summer full lockdown due to infection rates.
Define doorstep please? People drove hundreds of miles to Cornwall and the National Parks because those places were "on their doorstep".
Isn't that the definition of staycation? Or do you live in the peak district and so are happy to stay at home?
There was no infection or mortality spike after the summer beach fests NOR the BLM protests, it is a seasonal virus, and the Flu season doesn't extend to having summer holidays.
By Staycation I take it that people mean a holiday, rather than an overseas holiday.
why can't people just stay at home for a year until the varis has wiped out b4 going on holiday, it might come back in a new variant, where do we start.....from the beginning
It will take longer than a year to eradicate coronavirus, even if it is possible. You would likely need to vaccinate a large amount of the global population, and then you have to worry about all of the animal hosts (although they are less likely to transmit it to humans)
Its the british mentality, not liking being told what to do, and yes we will probably go back into a lockdown.
The "varis" is not going to be wiped out.
Sorry to disappoint you.
Sorry to disappoint you.
We already have stayed at home for a year... climbing the walls!
PS it will never be wiped out, check the chief medical officer statements re covid being around for the foreseeable
Some of us have had a worse year than others and we need a holiday old bean.
Because most of us need a break. Besides how many of these people work for the NHS where they've been treating dying patients? Are you going to deny them a holiday and accuse them of being selfish?
The virus is endemic. It’s never going away. We can vaccinate people. We can protect ourselves from variants coming from elsewhere with quarantine, but that still won’t protect us from internal variants. For that, scientists will create vaccines for new variants.
The lockdown is to manage the situation so we can return to living; if we can’t live, what’s the point in saving us from the virus?
The lockdown is to manage the situation so we can return to living; if we can’t live, what’s the point in saving us from the virus?
This virus will never be wiped out. It is the same type as a common cold. It will be there forever. We cannot eliminate it. I thought everyone knew that.
We cannot "live" like this forever. It will be every year for the rest of you life , and you children's and your grand children's lives.
Or until we stop panicking over a virus that won't go away.
We cannot "live" like this forever. It will be every year for the rest of you life , and you children's and your grand children's lives.
Or until we stop panicking over a virus that won't go away.
The virus will not be "wiped out", like seasonal flu we will come to live with it, and as enough people are vaccinated (perhaps annually for the at risk groups) the effects will be minimal, but it will still be there.
You answered your own question in the same sentence. This isn't going away, so it won't be just one year, it's for keeps.
Can't stay locked down forever, much as Chris Witty would love us to be. So hands, space, face & crack on carefully. Next slide please.
Can't stay locked down forever, much as Chris Witty would love us to be. So hands, space, face & crack on carefully. Next slide please.
I'm not defending people in a hurry to fly all around the world, but it's almost been a year already.
We've already stated at home for a year. Nobody ever mentions rising suicides from these barbaric policies
I wouldn't risk renting a place at all. I think peoples movements will be restricted.
They weren't last summer, and with all the vulnerable people having had both jabs by the summer I doubt the restrictions will be worse this summer.
Fine, you lock-down let those who want, live their lives, OR are you saying lock-down doesn't work? You will be safe if lock-down works, as you will be locked-down.
This story will help the pandemic; lockdown 5 here we come......
Hasn't "gift" always been a noun? Surely the new trend is "gift" as a verb. As in "your Christmas gifting...."?
Removed
OED - Gift (1 noun) a thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present. (2 verb) give as a gift, especially formally.
Using ahead instead of before, amount instead of number, at the top of instead of at the begining. Language is constantly evolving and becoming less specific.
“The use of 'gift' as a noun. Argh.”
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Don’t you mean as a verb?
“to gift” really means “to give as a gift”.
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Don’t you mean as a verb?
“to gift” really means “to give as a gift”.
Gift is primarily a noun you illiterate. However its use as a verb is also now perfectly acceptable as decided by the Collins English dictionary some eaons ago now.
British priorities:
1. Holidays
2. New car on the drive
3. Latest Mobile Phone
4. Eating out / going to the pub........
99. Staying Home, Protecting the NHS, Saving Lives.
Sorry, but that's what it looks like to me......
1. Holidays
2. New car on the drive
3. Latest Mobile Phone
4. Eating out / going to the pub........
99. Staying Home, Protecting the NHS, Saving Lives.
Sorry, but that's what it looks like to me......
Wrong - staying home is important but so is my mental health and having a holiday to look forward to in some sunshine is actually pretty important to me. Not interested in a new car or mobile phone.
No it isn't, stop believing these bullsh#t stories.
5. Ignore the lockdown rules and carry on spreading the virus, which is also covered by 1 and 4
I presume you are fortunate to live in a nice big house in the country, so staying at home long term is much less of a problem for you than for those who live in crowded, built-up places?
My number 1 priority is Staying at Home, Protecting the NHS, and Saving Lives.
If only everyone was like me, we could achieve immortality and spend our infinite lifetimes watching Netflix on furlough.
If only everyone was like me, we could achieve immortality and spend our infinite lifetimes watching Netflix on furlough.
The NHS, as my 95+ year old uncle told me, 'was created to save the people, not for the people to save it'
You missed out your own personal top priority:
0. Taking the time to demonstrate their narrowmindedness in an online comments section and projecting a holier than thou attitude onto everyone else under the assumption that no one has any significantly different personal views or circumstances affecting their behaviour & choices.
It's a bit of a mouthful to be fair, that's likely why you missed it.
0. Taking the time to demonstrate their narrowmindedness in an online comments section and projecting a holier than thou attitude onto everyone else under the assumption that no one has any significantly different personal views or circumstances affecting their behaviour & choices.
It's a bit of a mouthful to be fair, that's likely why you missed it.
Aren't the people booking holidays doing so whilst sat at home? And if the pandemic is still rife at the time of their planned holiday, they won't be going, will they? It may look like that to you, but it isn't - this is just people planning and hoping for some semblance of normality. Don't have a go at them for doing so.
The first 2 agreed 3rd is HYS for me.
Some of us have family abroad... less about holidays and more about actually being able to see family! Have a 2006 reg car and a cheap android phone, only eaten out twice since March 2020...
In my mind, once we are through Winter/Spring, the first 15-20m most vulnerable have been fully protected - It's go time.
And this quite frankly will be the view of many. The government will have a hard time persuading the majority to stay at home.
And this quite frankly will be the view of many. The government will have a hard time persuading the majority to stay at home.
I agree, the Brits have become that stupid and the world now knows it via Brexit and open borders since March.
Too right! It makes you proud to be British, doesn’t it? (Not)!
I suggest you put the Daily Mail down and interact with the real world then.
Spot on Capri.
The first question to Boris from the public at the briefing on TV when he announced 100,000 deaths was - when can I go abroad for my holidays!! Made me want to weep.
The first question to Boris from the public at the briefing on TV when he announced 100,000 deaths was - when can I go abroad for my holidays!! Made me want to weep.
Having a holiday abroad is helpful for my physical health, I have cerebral palsy and the constant heat gives my muscles a boost, not to mention my mental health.
Also, I know it's an hard pill to swallow (pardon the pun) but the NHS should be a choice, not something you are born into.
Also, I know it's an hard pill to swallow (pardon the pun) but the NHS should be a choice, not something you are born into.
Whose lives are we saving? The very old and infirm or the young?
Item 2 should read "new car on the drive with needless personlised number plate". If lucky enough to travel abroad on business, as I have been, you will meet very many ordinary, normal people in Germany, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Poland etc, for whom items 1 to 4 are a very very long way down the list. And yet they seem perfectly happy. UK = mass consumption/prioritisation of pointless crud.
5. Complaining about misuse of the word staycation
100,000 people have died with a Covid infection (not necessarily due to it). Whilst around 700,000 have died in the same period of other causes. Covid is serious, no argument, but it needs to be kept in perspective - many other things are important as well, and holidays have an important role in mental health and wellbeing.
Most people I speak to are staying at home as much as possible at the moment and ‘trying to save lives’ but there is a big difference between staying alive ( existing) and living life. Booking a holiday for-the future gives us hope and purpose. Just the idea and planning boosts mental health. What gives you hope in these times or are you making this comment because you have lost hope for the futur
Correct except for the latest mobile; not interested, and my old one means NHS Tracking doesn't work so they can't ping me,
Then find some better friends
It is perfectly possible to stay at home and have the latest phone and a new car.
It seems the No. 1 priority of many here is to judge others.
It seems the No. 1 priority of many here is to judge others.
Very true,
My priorities -
Stay Alive
Not pass any virus to others and kill them
Visit my grandchildren and Mother.
Holidays, pubs restaurants way down the list.
My priorities -
Stay Alive
Not pass any virus to others and kill them
Visit my grandchildren and Mother.
Holidays, pubs restaurants way down the list.
Not for me mate, I'd rather have a new car on the drive. £5-10k on a holiday is gone in 2 weeks.
Does anyone really think a global pandemic will be over by the summer???!!
No, that's why people are looking to holiday in Britain. By the summer the vaccine programme will have been rolled out to the majority of UK adults.
At current rates, assuming vaccine take up of 70%, everyone who wants it will have had 2 doses by the end of July.
At current rates, assuming vaccine take up of 70%, everyone who wants it will have had 2 doses by the end of July.
It was over by May in the UK, try looking up the definition of epidemic and pandemic, also look up how the PCR test works, SAGE must love it, Need to terrify the population? Add cycles to the PCR test, Need to claim the lock-down is working? Reduce the cycles in the PCR test.
A staycation is where you stay at home and go on day trips. A holiday in another part of Britain is still a holiday, and British people have been doing it since time immemorial: this is hardly a new thing and we have some of the best tourist attractions in the world if we care to look.
Fewer flights is good for the environment, and keeping our money in our own economy is also beneficial.
Fewer flights is good for the environment, and keeping our money in our own economy is also beneficial.
YOU can stay at home. Feel free to do that. Stop dictating to other people
Oh good lets spread covid around the country again. Just stay at home for the year and try again next year. It's not pleasant being confined to ones home, but come on why risk making things worse? I've barely left my house for 10 months, wish others would do the same.
im sure your neighbours appreciate your heroic self sacrifice
Seems like you have been brainwashed by project fear. How do you explain how Cornwall has maintained one of the lowest infection rates in the country throughout this ?
Well done mate - imagine if everyone had more sense; many of the 100,000 would be well today!
Me too Webby and it looks like another 10 months of the same or 20 if these holidays take place. Madness.
Why demand others stay at home, you are safe in your cocoon? Stay there if you must, but I'm not on the earth at your command, any one with a brain, who can read and has even a basic understanding of numbers can see this is not the black-death. The BBC regularly in the past week has produced graphs proving it, then promptly contradicts the data the article, & Covid Cultists lap it up.
I prefer to be ripped off in foreign climes. Countries which don't contain the same crappy chain restaurants in every town/city.
How will the tourist hotspots avoid being swamped as soon as lockdown eases given that many will not have been jabbed. Seems at complete odds with seeking to prevent infection spreading?
They were swamped last summer, yet Cornwall has maintained one of the lowest infection rrates in the country throughout
All wandering around with nothing to do.
If people are sensible and observe the rules, they should be just as safe on a UK holiday as they would be at home. And vice versa.
Very little transmission outdoors in the summer, as shown last summer, when there were far fewer restrictions than now and very few new daily cases.
Staycation means staying in your own home. Holidays taken in the U.K. away from your home, are still holidays.
OED Definition - staycation
NOUN
A holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.
NOUN
A holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.
Is it the same people who panic-bought loo rolls now panic-buying UK holidays I wonder?
I just love your comment it made me laugh. No booking for me , if the weathers good which it often is here I shall be staying local. But as I live 5 mins walk from beach I am v lucky
Fully appreciate that its the only option many families have, but the idea of going to a lovely part of Britain only to end up nose to tail with loads of other holiday makers spoils it for us personally so not joining the ruck on this.
I know this sounds weird but our family would much prefer an off season walking holiday in a remote mountainous area.
I know this sounds weird but our family would much prefer an off season walking holiday in a remote mountainous area.
Absolutely, this is the industry justifying extortionate price hikes and generating its own "fear of missing out". Doubt they'll be keen to return deposits, when summer lock down comes along. And if it does all come good, there's plenty who will be keen to sell a holiday package.
Can you stop calling it a staycation!
A holiday does not have to be abroad. A staycation is one where you literally have to STAY at home. I.e camp in the garden.
There are so many amazing places in the UK to have a holiday.
A holiday does not have to be abroad. A staycation is one where you literally have to STAY at home. I.e camp in the garden.
There are so many amazing places in the UK to have a holiday.
"Staycation" seems such a lazy media term
"A staycation, or holistay, 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"
Close, but doesn't mean specifically camping in the garden.
Close, but doesn't mean specifically camping in the garden.
There are indeed amazing places in Britain, except when the rest of the UK is there as well........?
Only until Scotland leaves the UK, then its wall to wall misery here. Some areas are pretty but the people are insufferable.
OED Definition - "staycation
NOUN
A holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.
NOUN
A holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.
You could have a Ukaction
Since when did we have vacations, anyway?
Since when did we have vacations, anyway?
Ah coastal towns full of beer gutted braying orks. Such a joy, I wish I was there!
Why does everyone need to go to those parts of the coast. Like every country there will be those spots. Go to Ibiza do you expect much else than teenage drunk people all over the place at night and the early hours.
There is far more to the UK than what you think you know. Obviously very little.
There is far more to the UK than what you think you know. Obviously very little.
Missed the pub closures have you?
I wish you were too.
When I was a kid a "staycation" was just called a holiday. Anyone who can go on holiday in the circumstances should think themselves lucky. The likes of the BBC should rid this middle class notion of only being a holiday if abroad and promote UK business.
Also has the BBC done a deal to promote Apple products? The amount of blatant advertising in news reports and articles would suggest so.
Also has the BBC done a deal to promote Apple products? The amount of blatant advertising in news reports and articles would suggest so.
When did 'staycation' start to mean holidaying anywhere in the UK rather than staying in your own home and limiting your travel to day trips? Are we all expected to go on exotic foreign holidays nowadays?
Can't people just enjoy what's on their doorstep? I know this lockdown is getting tedious, but I'd be happy enjoying the Peak District with friends this summer.
With people shifting around the country all summer - and cramming onto beaches like last year - they'll likely cause a mid-summer full lockdown due to infection rates.
With people shifting around the country all summer - and cramming onto beaches like last year - they'll likely cause a mid-summer full lockdown due to infection rates.
better than lock-down which is insane. Do you know that the infection rate from PCR can be adjusted to suit your agenda? Covid Cultists are like the ruler, deemed wise, but in fact ignorant. Below how PCR cycles roughly work, no one tells us how many cycles are used to count the infectious. There are other issues too.
https://www.mathscareers.org.uk/the-rice-and-chessboard-legend/
https://www.mathscareers.org.uk/the-rice-and-chessboard-legend/
It would appear many on here would prefer us to stay at home forever, never travel again and hug a tree in our garden. What sort of existence is that? We need to start living again soon.
If you mean stay in the UK, then there is actually quite an existence. It would take a lifetime to experience everything the UK has to offer. Yes foreign travel is a different world but at the same time we never appreciate what is on our doorstep.
As a bonus this all adds to helping climate change and our own economy.
As a bonus this all adds to helping climate change and our own economy.
Many on here seem to think COVID is the only risk to life anymore. The currently situation is barely scraping an existence for the majority, although a lot on here seem content never to leave their own home ever again, what sad and sheltered lives they must lead.
Don't worry HYS is a BBC community service, it provides safe spaces for Remainers and Covid Cultists, and they can spout their drivel and feel safe and comfortable in their little communities.
good to hear.love staying in the uk.big boost for the finances of many,after a torrid time.
One of many!!
Typical BBC fake news to support it's own agenda - in this case trying to encourage us to go to their beloved EU countries.
Agreed. It is a nonsensical word. The element 'cation' does not exist independently in English. The 'c' belongs inalienably to 'vac', the first syllable of 'vac(ation)'. Stick to 'holiday', which at least makes sense, wherever it may take place.
This time next year :. Death toll 350,000 and climbing......
Yes it probably will be but not as a result of COVID. People die in their thousands everyday but you probably think COVID is now the only risk to life. You stay safe behind that sofa now and never leave the house again, although there are plenty of risks of death in your own home so then again......
That would be amazing bearing in mind 500,000 to 600,000 die every year in the UK
Oh I forgot only covid deaths matter these days
Oh I forgot only covid deaths matter these days
I doubt it, for many reasons, all of which you could discover if you tried.
Assuming that 50 million people have to be vaccinated twice (allowing for anti vaxxers and people who already have been jabbed), that's 100 million jabs. At the current highest achieved rate of 400k per day, that's 250 days to complete the program. So, from today that's more then 8 months. So, realistically, the soonest the program will be done is October.
Labour's deputy leader reckons she knows better than England's deputy chief medical officer as to who should be vaccinated first.
It is embarrassing.
It is embarrassing.
The only certainty about a summer holiday in the UK is rain. Less certain this year is the R number and Pressure on our NHS. We may or may not be allowed to travel so read the cancellation policy before booking.
good news and as long as greed doesn't take its toll , then this is brilliant news for the UK and those crying out to make a decent living in the tourist sector , cos soon as this is over if you've well over charged , then your be coming back down to earth with a bigger bump then your going through now .
Not many left in the tourist sector now.
I prefer to be ripped off in foreign climes. Countries which don't contain the same crappy chain restaurants in every town/city.
Oh good lets spread covid around the country again. Just stay at home for the year and try again next year. It's not pleasant being confined to ones home, but come on why risk making things worse? I've barely left my house for 10 months, wish others would do the same.
Some of my best holidays have been in the UK. I have been all over England and Wales, and hope to go to Scotland next year for a 3-week road trip. There are some spectacular places in the UK e.g. St Michaels Mount, Snowdonia, Yorkshire Dales, Exmoor.
Only downside has been having to use the M25 each time we leave Kent!
Only downside has been having to use the M25 each time we leave Kent!
It will all depend upon the tier system in the locality where you intend to holiday. Stay home keep your distance and wash your hands, simple how much more do you need to know!!