The phrase "actual vacation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize that a vacation is genuine or real, often in contrast to a staycation or a break that doesn't involve travel.
Example: "After months of working overtime, I finally took an actual vacation to the beach."
Alternatives: "real vacation" or "genuine vacation".
The governor's next trip is an actual vacation.
If he is, he will surely need to take an actual vacation.
The pirate adventure Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is nearly as long and almost as beautiful as an actual vacation to the tropics.
Below, the Practical Traveler's as-scientific-as-possible guide to planning the perfect vacation: RELISH THE ANTICIPATION Planning early brings many people more joy than the actual vacation.
This was the first actual vacation that my boyfriend and I had ever taken together — the first official, grownup type of vacation, rather than our more usual short-term residences on friends' sofas.
More and more, people are rebelling against a "hustle culture" world, hoping to unplug in digital detoxes or turn their weekends into vacation since actual vacation time remains tethered to email.
I don't use my vacation days at work for actual vacations.
Even beautiful weather left me uninspired as I noted with envy that other families seemed to be taking actual vacations.
You need time to recharge the psychic batteries, whether for only a day or a half-day now and then... or of course an actual, proper vacation when the time comes.
And there the spell was broken: the Intergalactic Travel Bureau was not, in fact, facilitating actual space vacations; the travel agent was really Lucianne Walkowicz, an astrophysicist.
An important determinant of the actual duration of vacation is the vacation entitlement (cf. Ohtake 2003, Altonji and Usui 2007 and Schnitzlein 2012).
