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There are some unfortunate stereotypes around certain types of holidays. The commonly held beliefs include the idea that only students go backpacking, only the rich go on cruises and only retirees ever take coach trips. As is generally the case with generalisations, none of the above statements are actually true. All forms of journey have their distinct advantages and disadvantages. Cruises and coaches have a similar dilemma of putting you in a confined space with a group of complete strangers, which can either result in a fantastic holiday with people who go on to be life-long friends or the most hellish experience of your entire adult life. In that regard, such trips are in the lap of the Gods. On the other hand, cruises and coach trips also offer is the opportunity to visit a large number of places in a relatively short period of time with your accommodation already secured. It has a lot of parallels with backpacking, only without such significant risk. While this is particularly advantageous to the elderly, it is also useful for those who are just inherently disorganised or faintly paranoid. It is not so unusual to find young people aboard a cruise ship or a coach, though it is considerably more common to see them on the latter due to the fact cruises are generally expensive. While it is not only the wealthy who commonly stalk the decks of luxury liners, it is rare to see a young traveller who has managed to save up the money for such a journey. Coach trips do not necessarily have to be boring places and for boring purposes, which is why they are not automatically exclusively the preserve of those who are drawing a pension. Some companies run overlanding tours of every continent in the world using lorries which have been modified to resemble coaches. Others run tours of European cities, with particular focus on the party districts. The coach is merely a mode of transport – a convenient means of getting from point A to point B. What you do at point B is entirely up to you and can be completely different for different types of people. Even this statement is a massive generalisation. It is not unusual to find a young person with enough interest in history to join what might be thought of as an ‘old person’ holiday and it is certainly not that odd to find an older person who still wants to party. Age is entirely relative – the number means nothing.
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