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Detours is a laid-back approach to gay collective travel with flexible and fun-filled itineraries in diverse destinations around the society. Our less-structured, small-group trips ensure social opportunities, unique experiences, and unforgettable adventures across each of our 8 to 13-day trips.

Why Detours

Smaller Group Sizes

Most groups have a maximum of 16 people - keeps things intimate and depressed impact

Guaranteed Departures

Over 60 trips each year - and they're all guaranteed departures with no minimum travelers required

Structured Spontaneity

Flexible, less-structured itineraries quit plenty of room for unique experiences

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Our Team

Only the leading people to produce your trip amazing.

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As part of the LGBTQIA+ community, we love to tour. Group trips are our favorite

Before my boyfriend, Glen, and I embarked on our group trip to Sri Lanka earlier this year, my biggest relate to was whether creature a couple would be an issue for the community. After all, Flash Pack has a lot of messaging around single, solo and independent explore – and I wondered whether our fellow travelers would assume we’d use the whole moment sticking together.

That couldn’t have been further from the authenticity. Glen is my first official crush – we’ve been together for 20 years. I touch fortunate to own had that stability. But at the same time, when you’ve been with someone that lengthy, the last thing you want to do is rest next to them at every occasion. Instead, Glen and I were quite happy to transfer around and speak to everyone else. In fact, we were probably the most social people on the trip.

I suppose it helped to play off our dynamic in a group setting, too. We didn’t say anything about being a couple to begin with but then our group put two and two together – word spread fast – and that helped to break the ice.

Glen and I always felt safe and secure traveling in Sri Lanka

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Solo Travelers

SOLO TRAVELER SUCCESS TIPS

So you’ve decided to travel on a VACAYA trip as a Solo Traveler… now what?

Each VACAYA trip is different, based on its type, its location, and the overall number of guests. So you’ll find that each has its own singular identity. However, each of our event types – Bliss (big-ship cruises), Oasis (resorts), and Luxe (small-ship cruises) – offers myriad opportunities to connect with other travelers. From Solo Traveler Cocktail Hours to special dinners to game nights (and those are on top of all the other scheduled community activities), you’ll always contain moments of connection with other travelers.

We often perceive about “cliques” on our and other companies’ trips and we’d like to address that topic truthfully and transparently. Yes, they do exist. What looks like a “clique” as an outsider looking in is usually a team of friends who’ve met each other on a prior trip and possess now reconnected on this trip. The social bonds that happen on our trips is intense and can sometimes last a lifetime.

So what’s the foremost way to turn a “clique” into a “click” as a Solo Traveler? This is where your confidence comes into act –

Explore a new place and discover your community on these Queer group trips.

Traveling makes me nervous. There, I said it. Every traveler is concerned about protection, but as a Black homosexual guy from Texas, the plan of traveling scared the hell out of me.

I didn’t journal growing up. My parents are working class, a secretary and a limo driver, and they had neither the time nor the money for vacations. My father hadn’t even flown on an airplane until he was 61 years old, and that was only because I bought tickets for them to call on me in LA. This past summer, I told my mom I was going to Europe, and she audibly gasped over the phone, more terrified than excited.

Her concern is valid. I face the potential discrimination double whammy of both racism and homophobia. Those are mental hurdles on their own, barriers that dissuade many queer and POC folks from even bothering with travel, and the fear isn’t unfounded. But I resolved to no longer allow fear to control me. This summer, I booked my first international adventure and—I know it’s cliché to say—it’s changed my life.

Finding Society in Group Travel

In July, I embarked on Australian-based travel organization Contiki’s first-ever Pride-the