RTW Using Vacation Time at Work
 

Hello,

I'm just starting my career and I can't really take a full month off to do a RTW. Since the RTW is good for 1 year of travel, are there certain strategies/tricks to break it up?

For example, I could probably squeeze 2 weeks at a time. So I thought I would:
1. Take the US-Aus/NZ portion of the RTW for 2 weeks
2. Book a RT AUS-US-AUS flight (returning back to AUS a few months later for my next vacation time block)
3. Continue my RTW from AUS-ASIA for 2 weeks
4. Book an ASIA-US-ASIA to restart my RTW a few months later
5. ASIA-DXB-EU-US for 2-3 weeks...

How are the rest of you guys doing it? Retiring? Taking leave of absence?

If I break up the RTW, it would be better to take a break where there are cheap RT flights to the US; which int'l city pairs to LAX/SFO generally have the cheapest fares?

If you're going to do it like that -- with all the to-ing and fro-ing rather than 'simple' :) rtw-ing -- I think you'd be better off making an r/t to Asia as the first step. You can buy an RTW in a number of places in Asia for much less than the ex-USA price.

cheers,

Henry

I'm in the middle of a RTW right now, and I'm at home. (Well, at work actually.)

In February, I flew from Boston (home) to Stockholm on the outbound leg of an award ticket. I started my RTW in ARN, and spent 17 days (10 vacation days, 1 company holiday, and 6 weekend days) traveling to Berlin, Bangkok, Lijiang, and Tokyo before returning to BOS.

In August, I'll take 2 weeks (incl 3 weekends) traveling to Paris and Kenya before returning to Stockholm to complete the RTW. Then, I'll use the back half of my award ticket to fly ARN-BOS.

It'd be nice to have more vacation, but that pesky job pays for the travel.