Round the world tickets

frostie500

Just wondering if anyone could give me any advice on these. I'm planning a trip in October but that would see me possibly travelling to Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Abu Dhabi and Spain. Would it make sense to get one of the round the world tickets?

Thanks!

Challo

hey,

worth your while looking into it anyway, they can be great value. You have to do a full circumnavigation though, so a stop in the US on the way home probably ? I'm not sure if Abu Dhabi or anywhere in Middle East are typically on the route but call into or ring Trailfinders to get a start. Also, you have to have certain connection points on RTW e.g. flying from Spain to Abu Dhabi might be difficult.

frostie500

Challo wrote: »

hey,

worth your while looking into it anyway, they can be great value. You have to do a full circumnavigation though, so a stop in the US on the way home probably ? I'm not sure if Abu Dhabi or anywhere in Middle East are typically on the route but call into or ring Trailfinders to get a start. Also, you have to have certain connection points on RTW e.g. flying from Spain to Abu Dhabi might be difficult.

Didnt realise that I might have to actually do the circumnavigation element of it, just assumed it was mileage based and that I'd have to use certain connections at different times. I'm trying to get to five F1 and MotoGP races in the space of six weeks and was pricing it as individual flights and managed to find it for 2100, which I was pretty happy with!, but obviously wanted to see if something like this would be better value. If it's a case of it has some restrictions (maybe you have to stay places for a certain length of time or something rather than four or five days like I'll be planning) then the inflexibility of it would make it a poor choice for me

Challo

No you don't have to stay anywhere for a set amount of time, the only generally rule is that the entire trip has to be less than 354 days. But I'm 99.99% sure that you have to finish where you started, and you can only travel in one direction. Aswell as Trailfinders, look at USIT and the One World Alliance website for RTW deals.

http://www.oneworld.com/flights/round-the-world-fares/

Use the planner to see what kinda price you'll get.

ardmacha

Don't worry about including Spain, Ryanair to Spain is readily available. Otherwise you can just go through Korea to Australia, the RTW would allow you visit other places, you might never get to Tahiti or Fiji again.

frostie500

ardmacha wrote: »

Don't worry about including Spain, Ryanair to Spain is readily available. Otherwise you can just go through Korea to Australia, the RTW would allow you visit other places, you might never get to Tahiti or Fiji again.

Yeah Im not too pushed on including the Spanish leg of the trip in the RTW ticket it's just on my way back home. I doubt that I'll be going anywhere off my current list of destinations as time is going to be tight during the trip so it really is just a case of trying to find something as cheap as possible but as I said earlier if the RTW has stipulations within it I probably won't be buying it and will just book individual flights.

Thanks for the feedback guys

schemingbohemia

This might help, just put in all the journeys you want to make on it.

http://matrix.itasoftware.com/

Though I would think you might get better value through trailfinders.

jjbrien

have a look at this http://www.staralliance.com/en/fares/round-the-world-fare/

frostie500

I decided to take Korea out of the trip as it would have been tough to get enough time off work and ended up booking with an English company, gapyear.co.uk.

I'm only going for a month and I'm basically looking to get to a couple of Grand Prix so Im flying out to Kuala Lumper and staying there for four days for the Malaysian MotoGP before travelling to Australia. I've got 15 days in Oz and another race the first weekend that Im there and apart from that I have nothing planned.

I'm eyeing up a flight to NZ for a long weekend but not sure if I'll do that or just travel around Australia and head up to the gold coast. Leaving there and flying back through Dubai for the Abu Dhabi F1 race and then back to Dublin. Got the flights for about €1350-1400 depending on how the exchange rate works out and everything is pretty much direct (2 hour layover in Dubai on the way out) with Emirates.

It was funny but if I had included Korea the price would have been the same and obviously I'll hop on a Ryanair flight to Spain if I still want to go there at the end of the trip. All in all I'm pretty happy with the deal I got especially as seeing so many of the round the world trips would have had a lot of stipulations in them