Originally Posted by
gandalf7
Hi,
Thank you so much for all your responses.
After much deliberation, I pruned my itinerary to the following destinations.
Bangalore - Dubai - Cairo - Athens - Istanbul - Bucharest - Budapest - Vienna - Salzburg - Zurich - Paris - London - Bangalore
It was a bit of a let down
but I guess it makes sense monetarily. Also I will be able to spend more time at each destination!
Will I have any problems with the above itinerary? I mean...since I would be coming back from London, and crossing over between Asia<-> Europe twice? I was not able to plan this trip on the Star Alliance website because of this issue.
any other suggestions/comments most welcome!
If your relative has miles to give you, then do the following :
Bangalore - London / / Return from Paris - Bangalore
From London, take a low cost carrier, like Ryanair, or Easy Jet to Budapest.
www.easyjet.com
From Budapest - take the train, (use a Eurailpass for people under 26 years old) to the rest of your destinations. You may see how much it costs here:
http://www.eurail.com/eurail-passes/eurail-global-pass
Go to a travel agent in Bangalore (or your home town) to buy this pass before you travel - and they can also explain to you how this works. The best one for you is the 10 days in 21 days.. which means you can use this pass 10 days in 21 days so you can stopover and see the sights a few days here and there. Your travel agent can also advise and assist you in obtaining visas for the many countries that you're going.
End your journey in Paris and fly home from there.
Forget about Cairo for now. Same with Istanbul. You may consider them at another time. Cos its harder to get to the latter from Europe on a train! Unless you want to take another low cost carrier from say Vienna. Besides Cairo may not be the best place to go for now...