Travel Agents for Round the World Trip

pheasantplucker

i am planning the big trip around the world for next year and in the past have found trailfinders unhelpful and more expensive than others. has anyone used any web addresses / other agencies to book tailored round the world trips that they would recommend?
want to head across to south america for 6 - 8 months and then on to nz/oz etc. any ideas would be super.

thanks..

tabatha

i booked a great holiday with tony roche travel just over a year ago. i would also recommend clubtravel.ie and twohig tavel. u could also look at this website which lists all irish travel agents www.itaa.ie

daveg

pheasantplucker wrote:

i am planning the big trip around the world for next year and in the past have found trailfinders unhelpful and more expensive than others. has anyone used any web addresses / other agencies to book tailored round the world trips that they would recommend?
want to head across to south america for 6 - 8 months and then on to nz/oz etc. any ideas would be super.

thanks..

:eek: We have just booked a RTW trip with trailfinders and I found them excellent. The airfare (BA 7 stop) was standard price (rang loads of places/checked the web all seemed to be about the same price). As for accommodation I could not find better (believe me I did try hard). Finally I found all of the representatives to be very knowlagable and informative. Are you sure it was trailfinders?

hussey

Try sayit travel - in trinity - found them very helpful

cee_jay

Keep away from Usit
Booked Round the World with them - Thailand, Oz, NZ and South America, and paid the deposit
Then when we went back to pay off the flights, apparently they weren't booked and had suddenly jumped in price by €600!!!! :eek:
They apparently sent me a handwritten letter - of which they had no copy (and I never received) - informing me of this!
Were so unhelpful - and had to fight to get the deposit back in the end!!!!

pheasantplucker

daveg wrote:

:eek: We have just booked a RTW trip with trailfinders and I found them excellent. The airfare (BA 7 stop) was standard price (rang loads of places/checked the web all seemed to be about the same price). As for accommodation I could not find better (believe me I did try hard). Finally I found all of the representatives to be very knowlagable and informative. Are you sure it was trailfinders?

Maybe I have just been unlucky with the reps I get. Three times I got the most unfriendly, unhelpful rep who seems determined to get me up off the seat and out of there as quickly as possible. One in particular didn't offer me any alternatives for a long haul flights and when I went across the road to ebookers it seemed there was a much cheaper alternative for time I was travelling. Maybe I will give it another go.. but thanks for advice.

james1234

Hi,

also planning similar trip, have been to trailfinders recently, they quoted me €2099 (ex. tax/ins) for 4 continent plus 4local flights per continent. As I plan travelling from India to China (which very few operators cater for) that has pushed the price up, but if any of you know if any cheaper alternatives, please advise!!!

MazStar

Ive just booked with ebookers longhaul on Dawson St. Anyone have any dealings with them? Got RTW flights -7 stops for €1630 +tax.

humbleCounty

i went into trail finders and they were very helpful, going back to book it next week. I think im going for the one world ticket too, (thats the 20 flight, 2099euro one) a bit more expensive, but it will be very handy having those extra flights, especially in South America.

davidoco

I dealt with jennifer in gohop.ie who are a travel agents based down on Dame Street. All correspondence done by email which means you see exactly what you booked etc. She was very professional and helpful and the price was exactly as advertised by the airlines for RTW trips no hidden extras.

A good thing about gohop is that they put my details on viewtrip.com which I can look at online. I also got notified of a change in flight time towards the end of the trip automatically by viewtrip by email while i was away.

GO HOP

Mickah

I´m in South America at the moment. We booked ours with Sayit travel, 7 stops certain amount of air miles. Paying the extra for the 4 local flights within the countries is well worth it. We´ve bought 3-4 local flights already. They do rack up.

james1234

Humblecounty, yea, agree, the OneWorld seems to be deffo worth that bit xtra for the amount of Intra continental flights, 4 per continent.

Just paid off ours at trailfinders too (ouch), each time we went in to pay, the taxes, (which can be 450-550) came down by about €40 each time.

The staff in trailfinders are extremely knowledgeable on pretty much all the regions we are planning to visit. We spent 2.5 hours planning our route and booking the actual flights, we started at about 12:00 one saturday, poor chap was a tad late going for his lunch break!

I'd definitely recommend them for the service alone. Prices for the OneWorld are pretty much standard, as it's what's charged by the airlines, plus you pay extra tax and the travel agency comission, (€90 in trailfinders anyway).

Insert name____

humbleCounty wrote:

i went into trail finders and they were very helpful, going back to book it next week. I think im going for the one world ticket too, (thats the 20 flight, 2099euro one) a bit more expensive, but it will be very handy having those extra flights, especially in South America.

We were qouted 3,400 for this. Do you reckon its coz of the places we wanna go to? We told him the main places and thats what he came up with. 4 flights per continent except for N america where we can have 6. Max of 20 flights.

Fabrizio

How much do ye people bring on a trip of this size? Do ye work during it or what?

Im planning to go to Australia next year but after this forum would defiently consider a round the world trip!

What do ye reckon - money is the main factor i spose!

Norinoco

Fabrizio wrote:

How much do ye people bring on a trip of this size? Do ye work during it or what?

Im planning to go to Australia next year but after this forum would defiently consider a round the world trip!

What do ye reckon - money is the main factor i suppose!

Doing the RTW trip in pieces. Have flights as far as Oz booked.
Estimate about 1,5k for asia for 1 & half months (im sure can be done on alot less), then have 4k for Oz (need to have 3,3k on a bank statement entering Oz on a working visa).

Then when in Oz, will book the flights home via south america.

Flights will be the most expensive cost on the home trip.

You better start saving!!!

humbleCounty

insert_name: sorry man, just saw your post now. That 3400 is very weird. The ticket is a standard (British Airways i think) ticket, and you should not be charged more for different destinations, the only restrictions i was aware of were the number of flights within a continent, and the east-west/west-east direction of the other major flights.

i say check it out, probably just a mistake