'Round the world flights'

Having a browse on roundtheworldflights.com, looks like there are decent deals to be had.

Anyone ever done one, if so what destinations?

Depending on where you want to go look into booking direct with Air New Zealand. They cover Los Angeles /SF, Pacific Islands, Aus /NZ, Japan and China. Good airline with excellent long haul economy service, frequently very cheap too. http://www.airnewzealand.co.uk/round-the-world-and-multistop-flights

Depending on where you want to go look into booking direct with Air New Zealand. They cover Los Angeles /SF, Pacific Islands, Aus /NZ, Japan and China. Good airline with excellent long haul economy service, frequently very cheap too. http://www.airnewzealand.co.uk/round-the-world-and-multistop-flights

Cheers for that. Want to do NZ/Auss next year. But how to then go on to Rio from either one of them is the question.

Done it about 3 years ago, 18 stops with BA, Qantas and their group.

Well worth the money. Lots of things to watch out for though in the small print.

http://www.oneworld.com/

Covered us from Oz to the US, down through Central America to South America. From their to the UK, Russia then onto Japan and back down through Asia to Australia. Could of done more of Europe but already been to most places.

Cheers for that. Want to do NZ/Auss next year. But how to then go on to Rio from either one of them is the question.

BA have the best global network from the UK and fly to South America as well as Aus. If you are set on going to specific places and can find one airline which goes to all of them it will generally be cheaper than mixing and matching. On the other hand if your pretty flexible about where you go some of the agents deals are great.

There is a holiday company in Seattle that leases three First Choice B757s in about 100 first class seat configuration every winter and does about 18 to different destinations, I did one Manchester Washington, Lima (Machu Picu), Guayaquil (Galapagos), Easter Island, Raratonga, Townsville (Barrier Reef), Ayers Rock,Phnom Penh (Killing fields, Ankhor Wat temples) Agra (Taj Mahal) Mombasa, Victoria Falls, Kilimanjaro, Malta, Stansted. Should have also gone to Kathmandu and Petra but security problems caused rescheduling. We carried extra crew, Chef, Catering Asst, Loadmaster, two Engineers, cost must be close to $100k. Lots of itineraries, South America, China, Russia, Asia. I did 36000 miles in 26 days, carried a $95000 float for incidental expenses. Spent about $50000.

I have done a BA one which was to Montreal,LA,Auckland,Melboure,Bangkok,Rome and London.

I just chucked my ticket when I got to OZ as BA have the most flexibility as I was changing dates left right and centre.

Having a browse on roundtheworldflights.com, looks like there are decent deals to be had.

 

Anyone ever done one, if so what destinations?

If memory serves me correct, you're a young lad so try STA travel. They do special Under 26/Student fares.

Alternatively have a look on Opodo, Expedia, Kayak, ebookers etc at multi stop destination flights, you can get some bargains on there. I booked one recently that would've cost over £2,000 if done separately but it came in at £680 for me.

Done it about 3 years ago, 18 stops with BA, Qantas and their group.

 

Well worth the money. Lots of things to watch out for though in the small print.

 

http://www.oneworld.com/

 

Covered us from Oz to the US, down through Central America to South America. From their to the UK, Russia then onto Japan and back down through Asia to Australia. Could of done more of Europe but already been to most places.

I now understand your username!

We did Air New Zealand last February. Heathrow - Hong Kong - Sydney - Christchurch - Auckland - Honolulu - Los Angeles - Heathrow. 30 nights away from home, 31 night trip. My accountant lives in Dunedin and I have a big customer in Sydney so we went business class. The Air NZ website will let you plan your own schedule but after about 4 flights it gives up so I had to download all the daily schedules and work out the dates myself. There are specialist websites: http://www.roundtheworldflights.com/ amongst others. It was a childhood dream of mine to go round the world.

Done it about 3 years ago, 18 stops with BA, Qantas and their group.

 

Well worth the money. Lots of things to watch out for though in the small print.

 

http://www.oneworld.com/

 

Covered us from Oz to the US, down through Central America to South America. From their to the UK, Russia then onto Japan and back down through Asia to Australia. Could of done more of Europe but already been to most places.

18 stops, how did you manage that!

That's the site i've been looking at Whitey, sounds a good trip that.

If memory serves me correct, you're a young lad so try STA travel. They do special Under 26/Student fares.

 

Alternatively have a look on Opodo, Expedia, Kayak, ebookers etc at multi stop destination flights, you can get some bargains on there. I booked one recently that would've cost over £2,000 if done separately but it came in at £680 for me.

Cheers for that, which one did you book that one on, where you going?

18 stops, how did you manage that!

 

That's the site i've been looking at Whitey, sounds a good trip that.

I booked all mine through http://www.newzealandsky.co.uk/ but I don't know if they are the cheapest. We had a 13-night self drive on South Island and 2 nights on North. Not long enough of course.Waikiki was great fun, can thoroughly recommend it.

18 stops, how did you manage that!

 

That's the site I've been looking at Whitey, sounds a good trip that.

Looks like they have changed it to 16 only now, used to have a choice from 14 to 20 I think it was.

Also remember inbetween stops you can just book internal flights separately which is cheap as in places like S.America and Asia.

I have done this a number of times for business trips. I found Star Alliance to offer the best deals. This includes Airlines such as Lufthansa, Thai Airways, Singapore Airlines, Air New Zealand, United, ANA and Continental. They do a ticket where basically you can make upto 16 stops and less than 35000 miles. I would definitely recommend Asian Airlines over BA and Qantas as there is non of this pc nonsense forcing them to hire ugly middle aged stewardesses.

I did Singapore - Bangkok- London- Berlin-Munich- NY-Baltimore-Miami-Sao Paulo-San Francisco- Sydney -Tokyo- Singapore last year for about US$ 5000. Prices vary a little on stops you make primarily because of airport taxes and surcharges which are obviously different.

The good thing about this ticket is you can go back on yourself where some insist you have to keep going East or keep going West.

You can also book through Star Alliance's website.

Hope that helps.

 

The good thing about this ticket is you can go back on yourself where some insist you have to keep going East or keep going West.

Yeah oneworld does this...

Cheers for that, which one did you book that one on, where you going?

I used eBookers and I'm doing London - Beijing - Shanghai - Tokyo - Osaka - Bangkok. The nearest fare was £1400 with ridiculous stop overs and to book those flights individually was over £2000.

In the (very) old days I used to go around the world first class with PanAm for £1499 (2 or 3 times a year) !

Any amount of stops but you couldn't go back on yourself and I even got airmiles which gave me loads of personal travel on top !

Flight PanAm 1 went around eastwards and PanAm 2 went westwards with plenty of stopping points !

The only slight problem was that most PanAm staff were old and useless!

Mostly we went shopping in USA and then on to Asia for proper business, a bit tiring at times especially as I once did it in 10 days !

Better stop now as I'm beginning to sound like Dubai_Phil