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Old May 6, 2011 | 5:27 pm
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Originally Posted by Gardyloo
Yep, it's a major pain.

One thing worth noting is that all the Euro-denominated fares are identical, so searching for one Euro-zone nation does for all;

All of South America, ditto;

US/Caribbean, ditto.

That leaves a pretty long list, to be sure, but one can look at past "leaders" such as South Africa, Israel/Jordan, etc. Otherwise I don't know an easy work-around short of EF or KVS pulling together some sort of method to summarize.
I assumed all Euro-currency countries would be the same, good to have that confirmed.

Playing around now, it looks like South Africa remains an excellent starting point at ~$7k for a DONE4, versus ~$8k for a DONE3 with a Euro country or NRT start. So, for less money you get an extra continent (which is good because you need an extra one if you weren't originally going to Africa).
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