128 – Planning our round the world 2010 travel

In this short show, we speak about the trials and tribulations of planning and booking our round the world travel for 2010 and beyond.

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Thanks to your suggestions, we have a good idea of what to look out for as we make our plans for 2010. However, we’re hamstrung by a combination of cash and freedom. The round-the-world ticketing options that we’ve found have either

• a) been too expensive,
• b) been too restrictive, or
• c) not gone where we want to go.

We’re currently looking at buying two tickets from .

• 1. A return ticket from Auckland to South America (either Santiago or Buenes Aires)
• 2. A RTW flight landing in Vancouver, Frankfurt and Bangkok.

Given the centrality of these locations, we can easily string together budget flights and coach and rail travel to go where we want, when we want then return to the airport city to fly out again. By reducing the amount of flights we’re committed to, we get the freedom we want and we might end up saving on money. In any case, we don’t need to pay for everything up front.

Resources

We’ve used the following resources to help us plan and make these decisions:

• Chris Guillebeau’s Travel Ninja. We’re going to be making use of his new air miles book too (reviews coming soon).
• Go Green Travel Green’s How to find cheap airline tickets (review).
• We’re probably going to be booking through .
• The Global Traveller has given us heaps of time and advice on RTW fares and strategies.

You can help add to our plans by commenting below.

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