Originally Posted by
JohnAx
You can't have SQ in an OW rtw (without buying a separate unrelated ticket on SQ) but I suppose you know that and were just giving an example.
Yes, I did know that but had a momentary lapse... meant to say JAL and have fixed my post.
Originally Posted by
JohnAx
If you decide to fly A class you'll quickly learn that about 95% of what people call "jet lag" after the end of a 12 hour trip in coach is fatigue due to the punishment you've had to endure.
That hasn't been our experience. We do a fair bit of international travel, always in First or Business. We do get jet lag. (I'm an 8-hours-a-night-or-I-am-crabby girl, though.) I will agree with you that it's much less horrible than when we used to fly Coach, though!
Originally Posted by
JohnAx
The most important thing for maximizing rtw pleasure is maximizing the time you spend doing it - 12 months would be way cool, three months worthy. We usually can only eke out 5 or 6 weeks, very much on the low side of good.
That's an interesting take on it. We aren't restricted on time. As long as we have high-speed Internet access about every other day, we're able to travel more or less indefinitely without a problem.
The thing is, we usually tend to fly to one destination and spend a fair amount of time there. So we thought it might be fun, as a change of pace, to do a trip where we visit a lot of different places for only 2-3 days each. We can always go back to the ones we liked best and do them in depth later. I envision this trip being about 60 days long.
Originally Posted by
JohnAx
Thus you can have a European vacation, a North American vacation, and an Asian vacation, without necessarily busting one year's vacation budget.
True, but not a factor for us.
Originally Posted by
JohnAx
the train ride between Montreal and Quebec City just before Christmas has a good chance of being beautiful.
Glad to hear it. We're going to be doing that this year.
I think the point of my original post was not clear. I am not having trouble figuring out interesting places to go -- I'm having trouble figuring out how to string them all together into a workable *ONE* itinerary that allows us to visit some of those interesting places AND maximizes the legs on great airlines, ideally with "true First" service. Make sense?