Planning Your Trip

• Please let me know how flexible you are about dates, order of destinations, priority destinations, and which ones you would like to visit only if it doesn't add too much to the airfare.
• Most routings require that you go in one continuous direction (always east or always west).
• Generally, staying in a straight line in the northern hemisphere will make your around-the-world-trip the least expensive.
• The more times that you dip down into the southern hemisphere involving South America, Africa, and Australia, the more expensive the airfare.
• Departures in June, July, August, or December will increase your airfare.
• Starting and ending in New York or Los Angeles can save you money.
• Some cities are much cheaper than others. From cities such as Bangkok or Nairobi, you can get side trips to small, remote Asian and African countries such as Cambodia, Laos, or Malawi.
• It is often very cost-effective to fly into one city and go by surface (train, bus, etc.) to your next departure city to resume air travel. For example, the trains through Europe or going across the Malay peninsula between Thailand and Singapore is quite safe and well-traveled.
• Children 2 to 11 years of age are usually charged 67% to 75% of the adult airfare. Infants are charged 10% of the full fare.
• The high season for Australia and New Zealand is December through February.