Road Trip or Driving Tour?

[whythem]

A road trip is "pick a destination and go with no plan" and a Driving Tour is "a pre planned route, with specific stops along the way" or at least thats how I would define the difference. For me a road trip conjures up images of young people piling into a banger and just going. Where as a driving tour conjures up images of morris minors or some other classic being driven by old people in the country.

Anybody else got deffinate ideas about which is which?

[chevy-stu]

Most of the driving tours afiliated to or organised by people on PH tend not to be highly populated by old people in Morris Minors..

[fluffnik]

Hoons, blats and runs are what actually happen...

[Davey S2]

whythem said:

Where as a driving tour conjures up images of morris minors or some other classic being driven by old people in the country.

I've done a lot of driving tours and never experienced that. The most recent was last month when I did a trip through France to Monaco with a Bentley Continental T, Ferrari F430 Spider and a Dino.

Off the cuff 'road trips' are fine but planning a route to take in the best roads is also great fun.

[skodamanpat]

In the PH sense,eg alpine touring, I would define a driving tour as a defined route with defined and booked hotels along route, whilst a road trip as a proposed route with defined special interest roads and hotels found along the way day by day to give greater flexability.

Edited by skodamanpat on Saturday 22 May 17:45