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Thought this would be a good opportunity for everyone who has made the trip around the globe to sound off about their routing, destinations, clubs, planes, and hotels.

Go!

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My only real RTW is JFK > MXP > PRG > AMS > NRT > HKG > JFK coming in November. Super pumped :)

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Did a few:

Msp-dtw-pvg-cdg-Malabo-cdg-Algiers-msp

Msp-ist-mon-Phl-msp

Den-pvg-doh-lhr-GRU-msp-bud-den

Just finished one myself, broken into 3 parts:

1. SEA - LAX - DXB (mix of AS and EK F)
2. DXB - ZRH - CPH - BKK - HKG (LX, SK, TG J)
3. HKG - SFO - SEA (CX, AS F)

26,875 miles in 8 days :o

Flew 4 so far. The two that I reported in the TR forum are:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-...dventures.html

AMM-xLHR-SIN-NRT-xDEL-HKG-JFK-SFO-DFW-ANC-xDFW-xORD-LAX-xORD-FCO-HEL-xLHR-DXB.


http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-...ga-pixels.html

SFO-xLAX-xLHR-KUL-PER-MEL-SYD-BNE-HKG-PEK-NRT-ICN-TPE-xHKG-PVG-LAX-SFO

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In 2010 did RTW buying individual tickets...
LAX to Fiji (10 day stopover)
Fiji to Christchurch, NZ (3 weeks)
Queenstown to Syndney (2 weeks)
Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur
KL to Langkawi
Langkawi to KL
KL to Ho Chi Minh (2 weeks in Vietnam)
Hanoi to BBK
BBK to Amman (2 weeks in Jordan)
Tel Aviv to Athens (1 week in Greece)
Athens to Madrid (3 weeks in Spain)
Madrid to Lisbon (1 week in Portugal)
Lisbon to NYC
NYC to LAX

Total time traveling--5 months

I've done twice.
First RTW:
BOS-MUC-HKG-PVG, PVG-SIN-EWR-BOS
Second RTW:
BOS-IAD-BRU-VIE, VIE-NRT-TPE-PVG, PVG-BKK-NRT-ORD-BOS

LHR-FRA-KIX-NRT-HKG-BKK-USM-BKK-SIN-AKL-PPT-BOB-PPT-LAX-ORD-LHR 15 years ago for my honeymoon. I think the whole ticket cost something like $1,500 (not including the segments to USM and BOB) and I got upgraded on NRT-HKG and FRA-KIX because it was my honeymoon.

Ord-nrt-hkg-blr-bom-hel-lhr-ord

I booked a few award and revenue flights back in March...

PER-SYD-DXB-DOH-LHR-IAH
IAH-DEN-ORD
ORD-PIA
PIA-DTW-BOS-JFK
JFK-DXB-SIN-PER

Over 2 weeks, mix of personal and work

All in F except for PER-SYD, SIN-PER and those little regional ORD-PIA and PIA-DTW

In 2001 I spent a year doing London-Frankfurt-Mumbai//Chennai-Singapore-Hong Kong-Singapore-Denpasar-Darwin-Perth-Yulara//Sydney-Auckland//Christchurch-Singapore//Bangkok-Tokyo-Vancouver-Boston-London.

Then last year did a much-shorter Newark-Frankfurt-Bangkok-Haneda//Narita-JFK.

Currently in the middle of a JFK-London-Frankfurt-Seoul-Beijing-Hong Kong- JFK.

Thankfully the latter 2 mostly in F unlike my 2001 backpacking saga...

CDG-JFK-HKG-MNL-HKG-CDG.
2 nights in each city ( JFK, MNL, HKG). 7 days total.
Flew AF miles promo award to JFK in J
Use AA miles to fly CX F & J JFK-HKG-MNL and HKG-CDG
Cash for MNL-HKG and got opup to J
Got affected by jet lag only in MNL, took 3 hours to sleep.
A great trip.

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Last year, so happy AA was still doing it:
JFK-SYD-MEL-AKL-BNE-HKG-BKK-DEL-AMM-CAI-MAD-LIM-IPC-SCL-PUQ-OPEN JAW-GIG-JFK. $700 in taxes total & 160,000 miles.

17 years ago, with a pack on my back, I bought one--LAX-CPH-LHR-PRG-BKK-PNH-BKK-TPE-LAX. Early in the trip i met a boy, and by the second BKK I decided to come back to London to see him and I'm still here now. So I guess I haven't finished it yet.

Earlier this year I did jfk, Istanbul, tel aviv, Addis Ababa, Hong Kong, manila, Kuala Lumpur, Phnom Penh, siem reap, bangkok, chiang mai, Beijing, Chicago, jfk.

It was definitely the most fun thing I have ever done. Was a united award to and from asia with stopovers and open jaw, and air Asia and phillipine airlines filling the gaps.

Air asia is outstanding.

Yep. Aaages ago, as a graduation present to myself.

CHC-BNE-SIN-BKK-CPH-BGO-(CPH)-EWR-MEX-HAV-MEX-GDL-TIJ; SAN-LAX-HNL-AKL

In 2003 on a Star Alliance RTW ticket.

My 'regular' return tickets were RTW as well sometimes, but I'm not counting them.

Highlights were BKK, SAN, MEX and everything in Cuba. TIJ was only a transit point to cross the border to SAN, back when Mexicana belonged to Star Alliance :-D

Jfk-hkg-bkk-nrt-fra-muc-ewr

Did one with Star alliance in Nov-Dec 2013.
MEL-SIN: SQ
SIN - PVG: SQ
PVG- PEK
PEK - FRA: LH
FRA - CDG : LH
CDG-TLS: AF(NON *A FLIGHT)
TLS-FRA: LH
FRA - JFK : LH
EWR-DFW : UA
DFW-SEA: AA(NON *A FLIGHT)
SEA-SFO : UA
SFO-LAX : UA
LAX-AKL : NZ
AKL-MEL: NZ

My route (February 2015):


FRA - PRG - FCO - NRT - BKK - REP - SGN - HKG - MNL - GUM - (Micronesia "Island Hopper") - HNL - LAX - CDG - FRA

I flew one last year when I had a feeling the ex-CMB cheap one-ways were on their way out, figuring it was one of my few opportunities to try out Emirates First, and get a nice premium cabin "mileage run" out of the Memorial day long weekend lol. Went with a friend.

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=SFO-HKG...OH-DXB-LHR-SFO

SFO-HKG-SIN on CX F, CX J (67,500 AA + $2.50)
=Spent 2 days=
SIN-CMB on SQ Y (a few LifeMiles)
CMB-DOH on QR J
DOH-DXB on QR J ("F" since it was domestic-ish)
=Spent 1 day=
DXB-LHR on EK F (EK7 as QF8007)
LHR-SFO on BA F (~$1600 ex-CMB paid F tix)

Amount Spent: ~$1600 + 67,500mi
Miles Earned: 19644RDM (and 13181-EQM)
Total Outlay: ~$1600 + 47,856mi

Visited the newly renovated (at the time) Wing and the Pier lounges at HKG, SilverKris Business lounge at SIN (meh), the Premium Terminal at DOH with a Jacuzzi, the First Class Lounge at Dubai (my lord, what a lounge) and the Concord Room at LHR.

I'm in the middle of a second one right now, actually, leaving to come home tomorrow. Colombo's been good to me :)

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=SFO-HKG...UH-CDG-DFW-SFO

SFO-HKG-KUL on CX F, CX J (67,500 - 10% cardholder discount = 60,750 AA + $2.50)
KUL-MAA on AirAsia AK Y (exit row, pre-paid Nasi Lemak, all in less than $100)
=Spend 1 week=
MAA-CMB on Sri Lankan UL Y (bulkhead, 4500BA + $18)
=Spend 1 week=
CMB-AUH on UL J
AUH-CDG on EY F
CDG-DFW on AA J ($700 1/2 of the EY jumbo sale)
DFW-SFO on AA Y ($237 for a paid AA Y tix)

Amount Spent: $1039.50 + 60,750mi
Miles Earned: 18,888RDM (and 10,210EQM)
Total Outlay: $1039.50 + 41,862mi

Visited the Wing again on the way in, looking forward to visiting the Etihad First lounge at AUH tomorrow.

Got in on the EY jumbo sale, figured I'd make a trip out of it :) Third one planned for later this year.

I've done one each year since 2006, all on oneworld products.

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Oh Lordy, this will move up to the top of new threads in no time!

My story: All on US Airways/* Alliance for 120,000 + $140 on First/Business-

PHX (US)-IAH (TK) -IST (TK) -MLE (SQ) -SIN (SQ) -ICN (OZ)-SFO (US) -PHX

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=phx-iah...in-icn-sfo-phx

22437 mi in 10 days...best trip ever...

I did a few in my life, and usually in F or J class or a combination of both.

I did one with my partner to celebrate New Year 2000 and the itinerary was
CDG-SIN-PER-MEL-SYD-AKL-EZE-IGU-RIO-MIA-CDG on Oneworld in J and F
We celebrated New Years eve in Sydney with a splash

The most memorable RTW was the one I did in October 1993 on the Concorde
It was an Air France aircraft specially chartered for the trip.
It was an amazing experience since the aircraft visited places it had never flown before and attracted thousands of people to the airport to have a glimpse at it.
The plane was like our motorcoach, we could leave some personal items on board between flights and so on. the crew was the same for the 18 days trip.
The itinerary was : CDG-IAD-LAS-SFO (refueling stop only) HNL-PPT-NOU (refueling stop) SYD-DPS-CMB-MCT-CAI-CDG

A lifetime experience!

The only RTW I did was in 2007 over the course of 4 months. Mostly on one ticket (Qantas issued but every single flight a codeshare) but split up into a few segments as I did a few overland trips.

My route was

LHR - BKK (BA)
SIN - CNS (JQ)
MEL - CHC (JQ)
AKL - NAN - LAX (FJ)
LAX - SFO (AA - add on single)
LAX - JFK (AA)
JFK - LHR (BA)

This was the first trip I started collecting miles, I haven't looked back since!

I've thought about doing another RTW again as I make regular trips to Australia but unfortunately haven't had the time to make if work yet.

I did a few

TUN-DOH-CMB-SIN-ICN-NRT-LAX-LAS-YVR-PHX-BOS-YUL-CDG-TUN


TUN-IST-ICN-SIN-EWR//JFK-FRA-VIE-IST-TUN


TUN-IST-JFK//LGA-ORD-NRT-IST-HKG-ICN-IST-FRA-LHR-CDG-IST-TUN

Does it count if you backtrack? My most recent was
LHR-SIN-AKL-SYD-ICN-LAX-DFW-ORD-ZRH-LHR。

As e-ticketing is pretty much mandatory, the maximum segments now is 16 (somehow when the e-ticketing system was conceived - they did not expect that a fare would require more than 16 segments or 4 conjunction tickets). So - here is what I managed in 2007 on a LH-paper ticket. It took over 90 mins to do the manual tax calculation by a very patient agent at the LH YVR ticket desk. All in Business - total fare was approx. 5400 EUR.

CDG-FRA-CAI-SIN-MEL (open) SYD-AKL-KKE (open) AKL-NAN-LAX-SFO-YVR-YYC-EWR (Open) LGA-YHZ-LHR-FRA-CDG

Total time - 12 months. 7 weeks from CDG-YVR and then 10 months in YVR - followed by 2 weeks from YVR-LHR. Last 2 coupons disposed - were only required for fare to price.

Throughout August/September, I'll be doing:

HND-DXB-CMN-DRH-DUS/CGN-VIE-CDG-RKV-JFK-SFO-MEX-SFO-YVR-MNL-HND

Excited! :D

I've done a number of them, but the first one was in 1973.

As I recall, the routing was MLI-ORD-NYC(JFK, I think)-FRA-BEY-DEL-BKK-HKG-SEL(Kimpo)-TYO(Haneda)-ANC-SEA-ORD-MLI. It was leisurely, took four months all in, stopping off for sight-seeing, visits, meetings, and tours.

Long before Frequent Flyer accounts, so no "mileage" figures, and long before airline alliances so lots of carriers, but portions were on the RTW route Pan Am flew in those days.

Many times,in all classes! This used to be nice when you could buy a Star C RTW ex BKK for something like 4000 euro,with 27 segments/39.00 miles. Nowadays I realy cannot understand why anybody would buy them,except for traveling round the world in a single trip.

The last one,in C,I did in about a week,bcs the coupons were getting to their use by date and I had only used the BKK-IST and some European short hops before.IST-FRA-EZE-EWR-NRT-HKK-BKK,and a separat flight to IST,I think! I got frantic calls from my Turkish bank abouth my CC being used "all over Asia over abouth 3 days".

I've done a couple.
2008: ams-cdg-bud-fra-pvg-nrt-hkg-kul-bkk-sin-syd-lax-jfk-bcn
2013: jfk-fra-bkk-dps-kul-hkg-nrt-jfk
2014: jfk-icn-nrt-bkk-cdg-vie-jfk , jfk-hkg-bkk-mdl-bkk-cmb-doh-jfk(that i changed last minute to cmb-sin-jfk)
I have in august a jfk-jnb-hkg-ord.in december a jfk-nrt-han-dad-rep-kul-dps-jfk and next march jfk-ams-cdg-kix/kmq-jfk

3X -

SAT-LAS-SFO-PEK-DEL-DOH-LHR-LIS-(ship)-MIA-SAT
SAT-PHX-LAX-NRT-TPE-HGK-(ship)-SIN-CMB-AUH-LHR-DFW-SAT
MIA-IAH-AMS-DXB-BAH-BKK-NRT-ORD-MIA

:cool:

Once in December 2012
PDX-LAX-SVO-ICN-PVG-LAX-PDX

Don't know if these count:

JFK-HKG-BKK-REP-BKK-KIX-NRT-FRA-JFK
Went to a friend's wedding, checked out Angkor Wat, and spent Thanksgiving Day week with family in Japan

JFK-MAD-CMN-DOH-HKG-JFK
3 OW airlines.
Few new locations: Madrid, Morocco (bunch of places), Doha

Our honeymoon ended up being a RTW, though it wasn't exactly our intention:

DTW-MIA-JFK-FRA-SIN-MLE-SIN-HKG-ORD-DTW

I did two, in business class. These we're business trips and a RTW was cheaper and more convenient. I don't remember the details clearly of which destinations were on which trips, but it was something like the following:

MSP-HKG-IST-ARN-AMS-MSP

MSP-NRT-SYD (with separate tickets to several other places in Australia) -IST-AMS-MSP

Have done a few, all oneworld fafres - the longest was in the days of 20 sectors:

CPT - LHR - CAI - AMM - JFK - YVR - DFW - ANC - DFW - JFK - EZE - LIM - SCL - xJFK - HKG - SIN - NRT - DPS - HKG - JNB - CPT

Did one winter 2010-11, took about 5-6 months to complete since it was done before and after a semester of grad school.

ICN-HKG-JNB (about 8 days in SA split between Jo'burg and Cape Town)
JNB-ZRH (around 5 days in Switzerland)
ZRH-YYZ (weekend)
YYZ-IAH (semester)
IAH-SEA (2 days)
SEA-ICN (summer bumming around Asia)

Haven't yet.... have my first planned for myself and Mrs. SANbound next spring.

SAN-SEA-LHR// Eurostar to Paris and back to London // LHR-DXB-SYD-BKK-HKG-ORD-PHX-SAN

All OneWorld First except for the SYD-BKK-HKG which is on TG F and Regional J. We are pretty excited as I haven't done Intl F since the days of the recliners in the late 90's and the wife has never experienced it.

Have one scheduled in November 2014.

DFW-LAX-SYD-DXB-DOH-DFW, although considering route change in way home to be HKG-LHR-DFW just so I can try out CX first and first ride on a 747.

Cannot wait!