Originally Posted by
eternalX
There seem to be two groups of people on this board who buy RTW. ONe group does the RTW to see all the different F or C cabins of each airline. They maybe spend a day in each city, but it's more about the airline experience then anything else.
The other group (less of this group) buy the RTW ticket to actually see the destinations. We are planning on traveling for a year and the flights themselves are less important to where we're going. The RTW fare is a great value to us when we might have a total of 40k to spend all year long.
There is a third group:
Business people who realize they can often get a RTW fare cheaper that a round trip in J to a single destination who then "lump" several trips in to one to maximize their travel budget. For example, if you have business in Europe and Asia rather than booking several round trips you combine them and do one RTW itinerary.