For your next big trip, what if you could take advantage of a single airline ticket to check several

If you dream of traveling the world but your vacation time and budget pale in comparison to the size of your Bucket cruising motorcycle forum List, it might be time to rethink how you vacation. This month s Hot Topic series cracks the code on Round-the-World travel with globe-trekking wisdom from Jenny McIver , travel cruising motorcycle forum expert and author of The Grown-Up s Guide to Globetrotting.  Jenny is also giving away a copy of her best-selling book as part of our October Facebook Travel Giveaway.  You can enter here .
For your next big trip, what if you could take advantage of a single airline ticket to check several destinations off your travel wish list for a fraction of the time and expense of seeing them one at a time? That’s right, it’s not just for backpackers and billionaires anymore…Round-the-World (RTW) travel just might be for you.
A RTW ticket cruising motorcycle forum is simply cruising motorcycle forum a multi-stop airline ticket traveling east or west and crossing over both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. You can travel for as little as a week or as long as a year. All of the major airlines offer RTW tickets but many people aren’t even aware they exist. Why? Created for jet-setting executives making multi-stop business trips, cruising motorcycle forum the airlines don’t market them to consumers. But anyone can buy one and if you’ve been saving up frequent cruising motorcycle forum flier miles there’s no greater redemption value. If you don’t have the miles, the best fares can often be found with a RTW ticket specialist like BootsnAll or AirTreks .
If your vacation time is limited to the traditional two weeks, RTW can be the perfect way to see more of the world in less time. Let’s take a look at what’s possible with two weeks and a RTW ticket. For our sample RTW itinerary, we’ll include cruising motorcycle forum some of the world’s most popular cruising motorcycle forum destinations like the Pyramids, the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall. To break up the flights a little, let’s add stopovers in Paris and Honolulu. Here’s what the trip looks like if we start in New York:
Now, pick your favorite airline booking site (I used Kayak.com) to estimate cruising motorcycle forum the cost of individual round-trip flights to each destination. Then, price the same itinerary using a RTW ticket specialist (I used BootsnAll.com) for a single RTW ticket. Here are my results:
Did your results surprise you? The cost savings of nearly $2,000 are obvious and substantial but for me, it’s the time savings that are truly staggering. Consider that with the higher priced roundtrip flights you’ll cruising motorcycle forum also spend 113 more hours in the air than with the RTW ticket. That’s almost 3 entire work weeks! I don’t know about you but I’d rather spend those 3 weeks seeing the world, not the inside of an airplane.
Next week: Jenny will discuss cruising motorcycle forum how to book a Round-the-World ticket and the pros and cons of booking through an airline alliance versus a RTW ticket specialist. Follow Jenny on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RTWin30Days and Twitter @jennymciver.
Hi Peter! Not necessarily promoting Bootsnall, just using it as an example of how a RTW ticket can save time and money. In the next part of this series I ll talk about the pros/cons of booking through the three global alliances versus using a RTW specialist. The main difference is that when you book a RTW with Star, oneworld or Skyteam you ll only get routing options from their member airlines, whereas a RTW specialist can pull fares from all airlines which often yields the lowest RTW fare.