I used the Skyteam tool (yes, it sucks) to plan this route at the 24,000 mile tier, which is the lowest and therefore least expensive mileage tier: ATL-LOS(connection only)-NBO-BKK-NRT-HON-LAX-ATL. As others here have experienced, despite saving the itinerary AND emailing it per the instructions, when I called Skyteam they couldn't find any record of it. But they helped reconstruct it. Anyway, the end result was a quote for US$3799.37 in Economy. What do you people think? Seems like a good deal to me.

An incidental question that I cross-posted over on the credit card branch: If I book this through Skyteam on my Delta AMEX Gold, would I get double miles the same way I would on a ticket booked directly from Delta? (It's not possible to book the Skyteam RTW ticket directly through DL--when I called DL, they transferred me to Skyteam.)

By way of background, our original plans involved only Nairobi and Bangkok, but once we priced out some tickets from Atlanta we figured we should look into a RTW. I've never been to Japan, so maybe now is the time to spend a few days in Tokyo and then relax in Hawaii before returning home.