Prioritize Your Self-Care Routine by Pressing Pause
Welcome to Staycations Anonymous, the DMV’s only surprise staycation travel concierge service. We curate personalized mystery stays, with a focus on prioritizing self-care through a transformative local travel experience. Whether you’re celebrating a special occasion, an annual girls trip, or simply need time away from the doldrums of your daily routine, Staycations Anonymous happily handles all the tedious planning tasks and details to craft a superior getaway so you can take that purposeful pause.
We’re a premium travel brand with impeccably high standards and steadfast hometown values. We seek to disrupt the superficial self-care movement by creating space and experiences that allow you to pour into yourself in a meaningful way. Our team of travel concierges and network of social ambassadors have carefully chosen and built relationships with the most amazing hotels, restaurants, event venues, tour operators, spas and merchants in the DMV area to offer you the very best in hometown hidden gems and hospitability. While you won’t know your destination, or even what we have planned until the day of departure, you can trust that your staycation will be carefully and thoughtfully created based on our Pre-Trip Survey – and we guarantee it will not disappoint!
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What is a Staycation?
staycation
NOUN [ stey-key-shuhn ]
Definition of staycation
a vacation spent at home or near home, doing enjoyable activities or visiting local attractions.
a vacation that you take at home or near your home rather than travelling to another place.
A staycation done our way entails soo much more than Merriam Webster’s definition of the colloquial term. We are taking the idea of a staycation and elevating it to suit each of our clients specific self-care needs and acting as their personal concierge along their stay to ensure the ultimate hassle-free experience.
We purposefully choose to niche down to a local travel concierge service that specializes in the micro-travel experience.
Why?
Because the DMV is where we call home & we want to showcase the hometown hidden gems and hospitality right here in our own backyard.
The DMV’s ONLY Self-Care Surprise Travel Concierge
Mission
To make self-care a priority through curated local surprise getaways that put self-reflection, enjoyment and spontaneity back into life.
We intend to help you live a more fulfilling, powerful, balanced, and meaningful life.
Vision
To promote, inspire and normalize mindfulness and self-care in our daily lives. Finding the balance between the pace and intensity of modern life with periods of purposeful pauses via a surprise staycation experience curated by our Self-Care Concierge Team.
Core Values
Creativity & Innovation
We embrace change and foster innovation. We imagine and create, we new solutions to support your self-care. Our creativity and drive to get it done right are positively contagious – and they get results.
Integrity & Intentionality
We're true to our own values and ideals, regardless of the pressure that we're under to act otherwise in the travel industry. We have genuine and honest communication through our service with our customers, partners and suppliers to ensure that all the stays we book are purposeful.
Self Care
Self-care isn't a one size fits all strategy and often goes out the door when life gets rough. We help prioritize your self-care practices so you can live a more meaningful stress free life.When you're caring for all aspects of yourself, you'll find that you are able to pour from your overflow.
Excellence & Professionalism
We are committed to upholding the highest standard for every stay we undertake. We provide excellence in service delivery by understanding the needs of our customers and paying careful attention to detail. Our aim is to always exceed expectations.
Hello there! I'm Bre’Anna Miles, Owner and Founder of Staycations Anonymous.
I am a wife, meditating mama to one and an avid self-care enthusiast. I am passionate about helping others uncover the importance of taking purposeful pauses to pour into ourselves in an effort to live a more peaceful & balanced existence. Staycations Anonymous is the culmination my Self-care tools: meditation, daily affirmations, mama getaways, my love of travel and leveraging over of decade of Federal HR Recruitment and Organizational management knowledge to create the staycation experience.
When I became a mother like so many others, I lost myself in motherhood. It took extreme burnout and lots of tearful nights to acknowledge that despite having a loving husband, happy home, and healthy baby girl I was anything but all of those thing. I was so focused on being a good mom & pouring care and love into all of those around me that I didn’t realize I was woefully neglecting myself and my needs. Before my daughter was born my husband and I would often grab a hotel and have a spontaneous weekend getaway. After a particularly bad mama meltdown he suggested I take a solo weekend to get away and have some “me time”, after moving past the mom guilt I was excited to have a full 48hrs to myself. I booked my stay and my mind went on overdrive on how to make the most of my time off.
Long story short I over planned and overplayed my hand; by the end of the staycation I was productive in performative self-care but my soul was still exhausted. The next time around I set out with the intention to purposely pause and reflect on what caring for myself really meant and looked like. From there everything changed, my relationship with my husband and my daughter deepened and expanded. I felt my own capacity to love and be loved expand as I consistently poured into myself. I began crafting the perfect formula for creating a purposeful pause- a balance of rest, soulful activity, fun and spontaneity ( and wine, don’t forget the wine!). I realized other mothers and women had the same struggles as me and if no one stepped in to give them permission to prioritize their self-care nothing would change. That’s when Staycations Anonymous was born…I began crafting bespoke getaways for burnt-out busy moms and professional women and expanded from there.
This business venture is truly my accountability partner and passion project. For the last few years I have been trying to better describe, define, and justify my need for these purposeful pauses, and Staycations has been the answer. As a wife, mother and working woman it sometimes feels difficult to create and cultivate a quiet moment for myself, but having dedicated time to myself consistently has been a game changer.
Creating this lane and this business is keeping me honest, balanced and accountable to the rituals and routines that make me my best self. Overall I am striving for balance and self-growth and a whole lot of fun. I'm on a journey of discovering my true potential and exploring the beauty of life, and that requires less external pressures and more internal peace. I believe it is my mission in life to spread the good gospel, the secret sauce, the magic pill of stillness to inspire those in need of more balance to reprogram their mindset around mindfulness and prioritizing self care. So it is my goal to promote, inspire and normalize mindfulness and self-care in our daily lives. It is my hope to inspire you to find your own rhythm and create a life that works for you..