ROUND THE WORLD TRAVEL

For travelers seeking to do complicated multi-destination stopover trips, a Round the World, Circle the Pacific or Air Pass may represent a better travel deal than simply buying tickets to individual destinations. All of the websites listed below offer incredible savings for international travel. Reading the rules carefully and have your bag packed since when you see the travel deal prices you can snag with the click of a mouse or a phone call, it’ll be hard to contain yourself.

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Airtreks: This website is a wonderful travel resource for those interested in complex multi-destination travel such as Round the World and Circle the Pacific trips. Airtreks has a sophisticated interactive world mapping feature which allows you to point and click on the destination cities you want to visit; it then links these city destinations by mapping and pricing them for airfare costs. There s a large deals section as well as links to tours, cheap sleeps, travel gear, etc. See website for details: http://www.airtreks.com/Products_AirSpecials.aspx

Airbrokers: A well known air consolidator based in California which provides excellent prices for Round the World and Circle the Pacific travel deals. Prices many vary according to travel seasonality. Airbrokers will work with you on the phone and send you a detailed price quote for any trip usually within 48 hours. See website for details: http://www.airbrokers.com/html/around_the_world_deals.php

Bootsnall: An excellent search engine to utilize for multi-destination and round the world travel. The site has an easy to use interactive world map. Click on any region of the world and you can begin to plan your trip. There are links to specialty travel information such as the world’s best kept secret destinations, unique small ship cruises, and the most remote island destinations in the world. Bootsnall has loads of feature and traveler articles submitted by fellow travelers. There are links to popular travel blogs for travel gear, the World Cup, and cheap tickets. The site also offers local travel guides for business travel, Africa and numerous international destinations. See website for details: http://www.bootsnall.com/

Bootsnall Travel Tool Kit: http://toolkit.bootsnall.com/

Circle the Planet: Nick is one of the early founders of the cheap round the world travel movement. This site is easy to use and has incredible Round the World and Circle the Pacific prices. Once you see a sample routing you may be interested in, you submit your request via email to Nick and he usually gets back to you within 24 hours. See website for details: http://www.circletheplanet.com/circle-planet.asp

Star Alliance: Large consortium of airlines working together to offer Round the World Fares based upon 3 different levels of airline mileage usage. See website for details: http://www.airtimetable.com/star_alliance_around_world_fares.htm

General Round the World Airfare Info: http://www.airtimetable.com/Around_World_Airfares.htm

OneWorld Alliance: another airline consortium which has two options for Round the World airfare savings: OneWorld Explorer and Global Explorer programs. See website for details: http://www.airtimetable.com/one_world_explorer.htm

International OneWorld Alliance Fares from Bangkok: http://www.aaairticket.com/aroundtheworld-oneworld.asp

International Air Passes: http://www.airtimetable.com/airpass.htm