According to an article in the Daily Telegraph, “Staycation” is one of the words set for possible inclusion in the dictionary in 2009. Around since 2003 but only widely used from last year, a staycation is defined as “a holiday spent at home, especially due to straitened financial circumstances.” Designed to save money, your holiday is spent visiting nearby attractions and enjoying what your local area has to offer, without any travel or accomodation costs.
Personally, I’ve ‘downsized’ my holiday this year from the United States to Europe to save money and I’ve heard lots of stories of people doing similar things.
So, where are you going on holiday this year? Has the state of the economy affected your destination? Are you taking a ‘staycation’ or ‘downsizing’ your holiday? Let us know by voting in our poll.
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Once again we have been ripped off by Avis. We booked through RCI so had no choice as to which car hire commpany we used.
We were given a quotation which was far exceeded when we arrived in Cyprus.
The excess on the car was deemed to be 1200 Euros so we chose to pay the waiver in addition to the collision-damage waiver.
We were not told in advance of the obligatory extra insurance charge because I am 74. Nor were we told that there was a fuel charge of 47 euros. Fair enough , we have to pay for fuel but the Nissan Note only holds 46 litres. Petrol in Cyprus was a little over 80 euro cents per litre and even the higher grade was only 84.5 eurocents per litre. Therefore by having to return a full tank we were over-charged by at least £10 sterling going on the higher-cost fuel, even more on the basic unleaded which is what was in the car.
Needless to say, we will not be using Avis again.
Hi RC Milton,
I’m sorry you are not satisfied with the service that you have received.
If you send the details of your hire to comments@avis.co.uk (including your rental agreement number), I will review the case for you.
Regards,
Stephen