Dear Unterwegs,

Thanks for your reply, i am leaning towards Saigon because i will be also going to Con Dao island and there is a direct flight from Saigon to there so that makes it a bit easier.I have been to Bangkok a couple of times should i think of Saigon a bit like that or is it completly different?

Regarding Star, i have looked into that but the problem with them is that their RTW is miles bases which makes it more restricted in routing and going east from Papeete is impossible or you have to backtrack to AKL to go to LAX.Plus one way prices on the PPT-LAX or PPT-IPC-SCL routes are double or more then the AKL-PPT sector.