Originally Posted by
Dave Marsh
I personally think DXB is just boring after a few times. Even you can bored by staying in the Burj! And my mission is to reduce any unnecceary transit/hotel cost while doign these pure MRs.
Make that one time in my case.
I've now been to most of the destinations in the Gulf, either on business or leisure, but the entire region holds zero affinity for me, and generally bores me to tears.
Just to come back to the OP's point, one other way to afford RTWs is when you're traveling for business. These will take the form of very basic trips; I've done AMS-LHR-JFK-HKG-ICN-TPE-HKG-AMS as a DONE3. It happened to fit with the meetings I had, and was muhc cheaper than buying point-to-point tickets.