Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Near the pole, at the beach, top of mountains, underwater, golfing
Programs: AC E, FPC plat, TK E, VA G, HIlton diam, spg plat, CX gold, US air Plat, Hyatt Dia, A club Plat
Posts: 287
tips to maximize F mini rtw
for mini rtw asia 1 newbies: if you are saving the points for a long time for the mini rtw in J / F, and since you are allowed 3 stop, try to book the stopover as far as possible from each other.
if from NA, one stop in northern europe (CDG or FRA or whatever in europe), 1 stop in south east asia (BKK or SIN), one stop in north east asia / australia
reasons are :
1. flights intra europe are dirt cheap. you can book and pay your own to almost anywhere in europe.
2. J /C europe is nothing to get excited about. it is the same seats as economy, except no one in middle seat. no F in intra europe.
3. flights intra asia (BKK and SIN) are also cheap (with discount airlines like airasia etc)
4. it is the long haul flights more than 4 hours that it worth it to be in F. otherwise Y is ok.
to maximize F experience, you can depart from FRA in F (or C then later F) to get access to first class terminal. you can depart BKK in TG F for the spa and TG fist class ground experience.
for example, from BKK you can go to HKT (phuket) then catch a direct flight to DPS (bali) then to SIN, then to REP (Siem Reap), to SGN etc... with discount airlines it is cheap.
from LHR: to CPH to LED to ARN etc...
it will allow you to have a truly RTW trip. first class RTW travel on budget.