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Special January 2010 fares for RTW tickets

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

The dawn of a new year is about nothing if not navel-gazing, and we certainly don’t want to be left out. But this is no ordinary new year – it’s also a new decade (or the last year of the last decade, depending on how you’re counting them, but still). So that calls for some righteous navel-gazing, indeed.

We decided the best kind of navel-gazing we could do right now would be the kind that would also provide you, the soon-to-be-RTW traveler, with useful information as well. (We’re giving like that.) Which is why we’re proud to say that what we found in our metaphorical navels is a little nugget of informaiton that could radically impact your RTW planning.

It’s the ability to plan without a compass.

What do we mean by that? Well, with traditional RTW tickets you’re forced to continue moving in one direction for the duration of your trip. Once you set off on your journey, you can’t backtrack on that RTW ticket. This can certainly still get you around the globe, but it’s awfully restrictive.

That’s exactly why we prefer the kinds of RTW tickets we sell – the ones that let you zig-zag back and forth all over the planet without regard to what direction you’re going or where you came from. How can we do it? Our tickets aren’t typical RTW tickets – they’re really a series of one-way tickets, which give you the ultimate in flexibility.

And we still have some of the best prices on RTW air tickets that you’ll find anywhere.

Here are the January RTW ticket deals – these prices are good through January 31, 2010.

• New York – London – Amsterdam – Frankfurt – Beijing – Seoul – New York from US$1099 (plus taxes)
• Los Angeles – Nadi (Fiji) – Sydney – surface – Brisbane – Auckland – Tongatapu (Tonga) – Los Angeles from US$1599 (plus taxes)
• San Francisco – Singapore – Saigon / Ho Chi Minh – surface – Hanoi – Luang Phrabang – surface – Vientiane – Angkor Wat (Siem Reap) – Bangkok – surface – Koh Samui – Hong Kong – surface – Beijing – Tokyo – San Francisco from US$1649 (plus taxes)

If you don’t fancy any of those itineraries enough to book it, then we welcome you to design your own – with as many zigs and zags as you like – with our RTW trip planner.

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Special December 2009 fares for RTW tickets

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

There are some locations that evoke very distinct images – at least to me. Acapulco’s heyday may be long past, but just saying the word “Acapulco” still makes me think of some kind of “Leave it to Beaver” era beachside vacation. I hear the word “Paris” and suddenly there’s a soundtrack of accordions playing in my head. And Tahiti? It’s almost impossible to say that without sighing heavily and wistfully staring out your office window.

Like I’m doing now.

See, as I was scanning this month’s round-the-world ticket deals, I saw the word “Tahiti” as the first stop on the first itinerary – and I sighed. And I stared off into space. And I had to force myself to keep reading and get back to work. Because even though I’m not a beach person, all it takes is the word “Tahiti” to make me think of the ultimate escape – a trip to the end of the world to do nothing upon nothing for as long as you like.

I think that’s one of the fun things about any trip, actually – fixating on one location and then building a trip around it. So maybe Tahiti isn’t the place you obsess over, or the one that makes you stare off into space, but with all the destinations listed on this month’s set of RTW deals, there’s sure to be one that does capture your imagination in a similar way.

Here are the December RTW ticket deals – these prices are good through December 31, 2009.

• Los Angeles – Papeete (Tahiti) – Sydney – surface – Melbourne – Christchurch – surface – Auckland – Los Angeles from US$1099 (plus taxes)
• San Francisco – Hong Kong – Bangkok – Bombay / Mumbai – Bangalore – Singapore – San Francisco from US$1499 (plus taxes)
• Los Angeles – London – Paris – Cape Town – surface – Johannesburg – Abu Dhabi – Kuala Lumpur – surface – Bangkok – Hong Kong – Beijing – Los Angeles from US$2599 (plus taxes)

If none of these itineraries includes that ideal dream destination for you, then create your own – it’s easy (and addictive) with our RTW trip planner.

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Special November 2009 fares for RTW tickets

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Sometimes traveling is about booking a trip to a place because you’ve heard something amazing about it, or you’ve wanted to go since you were a kid, or you already devoured a guidebook about it. But sometimes – especially in times when the economy isn’t going full steam ahead – travel is about picking the cheapest ticket you can find and making an exciting trip out of it.

If you’re lucky, you can have the best of both worlds – a cheap ticket and a place you actually want to go. Chances are pretty good you’ll get one of those so-called “win-win” situations with these special deals for RTW tickets this month.

Looking over the itineraries for these really inexpensive multi-stop tickets, you’ll note the heavy emphasis on cities in Asia and the South Pacific. At this time of year, if your home is in the Northern Hemisphere and you’re looking to get away from the oncoming winter, those are some of the places you’d want to go anyway. And if you’re on a budget, Asia is an excellent place to make your money go further.

So have a look through this month’s special RTW fares, and see if one of them doesn’t strike you as the perfect balance of a budget-friendly trip that also happens to include some pretty exciting destinations.

Here are the November RTW ticket deals – these prices are good through November 30, 2009.

• Los Angeles – Nadi (Fiji) – Sydney – surface – Brisbane – Auckland – Tongatapu (Tonga) – Los Angeles from US$1169 (plus taxes)
• New York – Singapore – Bangkok – Cairo – Rome – London – New York from US$1399 (plus taxes)
• San Francisco – Singapore – Saigon / Ho Chi Minh – surface – Hanoi – Luang Phrabang – surface – Vientiane – Angkor Wat (Siem Reap) – Bangkok – surface – Koh Samui – Hong Kong – surface – Beijing – Tokyo – San Francisco from US$1599 (plus taxes)

And, of course, if you want to tweak any of these itineraries slightly – or start over and create your own from whole cloth – you can do that easily with our RTW trip planner.

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Special October 2009 fares for RTW tickets

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Although we’ve been hearing some rumblings of positive economic news lately (in that the economy shrunk less this last quarter than it did in the previous quarter, or something like that), we all know that an economic rebound is going to take awhile. Travel to expensive destinations is way down this year, but that doesn’t mean people have stopped traveling. It just means they’re traveling smarter.

As long-term travelers know, there are many destinations around the world in which it’s cheaper to live than your current home – so what better way to save some cash than by taking a trip to one of those locations? Luckily, many of the stops on this month’s featured RTW itineraries include places with a pretty low cost of living. And if the named stops listed aren’t the cheapest, they’re probably close to fairly inexpensive places where you could stay for awhile, too.

So if you need to escape the bad economic news for awhile, or want to ride out the rest of the downturn with different surroundings, or just spend less money on a daily basis than you are at home, this could be the perfect time to get out of town for a few months.

Here are the October RTW ticket deals – these prices are good through October 31, 2009.

• San Francisco – London – Beijing – Hong Kong – San Francisco from US$1199 (plus taxes)
• Los Angeles – Bangkok – Overland On Your Own – Singapore – Bali (Denpasar) – Darwin – Cairns – Overland On Your Own – Melbourne – Nadi (Fiji) – Los Angeles from US$1599 (plus taxes)
• New York – Frankfurt – Cape Town – Kuala Lumpur – Bali (Denpasar) – Singapore – Bangkok – Hong Kong – New York from US$1995 (plus taxes)

And, as always, if you don’t see the ideal itinerary, you can dream up your very own custom RTW itinerary with our RTW ticket planner.

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Special September fares for RTW tickets

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Most of the time, the RTW ticket specials we bring you at the start of each month aren’t technically “round-the-world” tickets. They’re tickets that include several flights, and they’ll take you to a long list of places around the globe – but they don’t usually continue in more or less one direction around the planet.

What’s great about that is you’re better able to tailor your itinerary to make it exactly the trip you want to take, regardless of whether Point B is actually backtracking a bit from Point A or not. But then an itinerary special pops up that is quite literally a round-the-world ticket – where you’re essentially flying around the globe until you’re back home again – and for some reason that makes us take notice.

It’s not that the other itineraries aren’t great, it’s just that the idea of a RTW trip that will truly have you traveling around the world is so cool that we get a little giddy about it. If you do, too, then take a peek at the 3rd itinerary on the list below and see if it doesn’t make you think about packing a steamer trunk and setting sail…

These are the September RTW ticket deals – these prices are good through September 30, 2009.

• Chicago – Cape Town – surface – Johannesburg – Nairobi – London – Chicago, from $US1249 plus taxes
• Los Angeles – Papeete (Tahiti) – Auckland – Sydney – Saigon / Ho Chi Minh – Da Nang – Hanoi – Hong Kong – Los Angeles, from US$2149 plus taxes
• New York – London – Paris – Prague – Rome – Athens – Johannesburg – Kilimanjaro – surface – Nairobi – Bombay / Mumbai – Delhi – Bangkok – Singapore – Bali (Denpasar) – Sydney – Auckland – Nadi (Fiji) – Los Angeles – Honolulu – New York, from US$3999 plus taxes

And if none of those itineraries is the one you’ve been dreaming of, then play around with our RTW trip planner (warning – it’s addictive!) and create your very own RTW itinerary.

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Special August fares for RTW tickets

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Every month, we publish a few of the special deals on multi-stop tickets which are available for that month. And every month, we look through them and think about whether we’d like to that the trip that’s laid out in them. Of course, if someone were to hand us a free ticket we’d go just about anywhere – but any time we’re footing the bill we’re likely to be a bit pickier.

Now, the good news with these monthly specials is that between the three that come up each month there’s probably one that includes many of the places you’re thinking of including in your itinerary. But there are so many more places you could add to any of these special itineraries, it’s a little hard to narrow it down. A quick glance at our list of where to go on a RTW trip is enough to make you want to extend your trip indefinitely just to hit them all!

But for starters, most of the people who set off on long trips will eventually come home (wherever home may be by that point) and settle into some kind of routine for awhile. That’s not saying they don’t pack up and head out again, it just means that when you do buy your RTW ticket you can’t be completely cavalier about where you’ll go – it pays to make sure your itinerary is one you love from the start.

So, the bottom line is that if you don’t see exactly the itinerary that makes your heart sing when you browse through the specials for this month (or any month, for that matter), be sure to click through and work on tailoring your very own itinerary, custom-made for you and by you. It’ll help you have the trip of your dreams, not to mention heighten your excitement about the journey.

These are the August RTW ticket deals – these prices are good through August 31, 2009.

• Los Angeles – Lima – Buenos Aires – Sao Paulo – Santiago – Los Angeles, from $US1099 plus taxes
• San Francisco – London – Bangkok – Sydney – Honolulu – San Francisco, from US$1999 plus taxes
• New York – Hong Kong – Bangkok – Singapore – Saigon / Ho Chi Minh – Sydney – Johannesburg – Frankfurt – Paris – London – Athens – New York, from US$2899 plus taxes

Don’t see the itinerary you’ve been looking for? Create your own with our RTW trip planner.

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Special July fares for RTW tickets

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

We are now officially halfway through 2009 (don’t ask where the year went – we’re still trying to figure that out ourselves), which also means we’re smack dab in the middle of summer in the northern hemisphere. This being the time when, traditionally, everyone and their brother goes on vacation, it stands to reason that we shouldn’t be surprised by a slight rise in the cost of things like airline tickets or cruises. But we can’t help it, we’re a little surprised.

Why? Because for months we’ve been seeing deals that are so good we thought they couldn’t be topped – and then they were topped a few days later. This flagging economy has been great for travel deal hunters.

Now, while we’re not quite ready to call the season on these fabulous travel deals over, we have been seeing prices creep back up a bit – most likely due to the demand for summer travel rather than any rebound in the economy (because that would be too much to hope for, right?). In other words, if you haven’t already snagged a stellar deal for a quick summer trip, you might want to hang on a moment and see if the prices drop again in a month or so.

But unlike the prices on simple round-trip tickets, the prices on multi-stop tickets never really dropped as much. That may sound like a bummer, but it also means that they won’t be shooting back up again, either. Overall, these tickets for long-term trips are just more stable price-wise, since they almost always require more flexibility and aren’t as susceptible to short-term price fluctuations.

Yes, that’s just one more good reason to take a RTW trip.

These are the July RTW ticket deals – these prices are good through July 31, 2009.

• Miami – Rio de Janeiro – Buenos Aires – Santiago – Lima – Bogota – Miami from US$12999 (plus taxes)
• San Francisco – Hong Kong – Bangkok – Singapore – Bali (Denpasar) – Sydney – San Francisco – Honolulu from US$1999 (plus taxes)
• New York – Beijing – Hong Kong – Singapore – Bangkok – Bombay / Mumbai – Nairobi – Cairo – Athens – Rome – Copenhagen – Berlin – London – New York from US$2499 (plus taxes)

And just in case none of those itineraries appeals to you, you can create a totally customized trip from scratch with the BootsnAll RTW travel planner. It’s interactive and very fun, especially as it’s it’s laid out on a map and will give you a visual idea of all the places you’ll be going on your trip. Have fun planning!

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Special June fares for RTW tickets

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Travel is, for many, a luxury. It’s one of the things that’s easy for many people to eliminate from their list of expenditures when they’re trying to cut back on spending – which is precisely what many people are trying to do right now as the economy continues to stutter slowly back to life. But for those of you who are considering a round-the-world trip, travel isn’t a luxury – it’s a lifestyle. What’s interesting right now is that some people who have found themselves out of work because of the economic downturn are changing their minds about travel as a luxury, thinking more about travel as a way of life instead.

The good news is that – no matter whether you started out in the “travel as a lifestyle” camp or are a recent convert – the travel bargains right now will make you smile.

We keep talking about the incredibly low prices we’re seeing, but it’d be silly for us to pretend that wasn’t still the biggest story for bargain-hunting travelers. And there are deals to be had no matter what kind of travel you’re doing, too, from a quick weekend getaway close to home to the typical American two-week vacation to the long-term trips people who read a blog about RTW travel are contemplating.

These are the May RTW ticket deals – these prices are good through June 30, 2009.

• New York – Hong Kong – Dubai – London – New York from US$1399 (plus taxes)
• San Francisco – Hong Kong – Bangkok – Bombay / Mumbai – Bangalore – Singapore – San Francisco from US$1549 (plus taxes)
• Los Angeles – Papeete (Tahiti) – Auckland – Sydney – Saigon / Ho Chi Minh – Da Nang – Hanoi – Hong Kong – Los Angeles from US$2199 (plus taxes)

And what if none of those itineraries inspire you to drop everything and travel the world? No worries – if you play around with the RTW trip planner on BootsnAll enough, you’ll put together a custom itinerary that should do the trick. Be warned, that trip planner is seriously fun to play with. It’s addictive. Like travel.

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Special May fares for RTW tickets

Monday, May 4th, 2009

It’s quite possible you’re going to get sick of reading about how insanely good the travel deals are at the moment. Because every time we turn around, they seem to get better. First we saw lower-than-normal winter airfares and rejoiced. Then the deals continued into the spring, when we all love to travel anyway. But we assumed that come time for summer fares to start showing up, those cheap airline tickets would be a thing of the past.

Turns out we were, thankfully, wrong.

Summer travel deals to all the places that people love to go in the summer but normally pay through the nose for are everywhere we look, and we’re kind of giddy about it. And that goes for everything from simple round-trip tickets to the most complicated multi-stop itinerary. So if you’ve been putting off buying your RTW ticket because you figured you’d missed the winter and spring deals and would have to wait until the fall, think again.

These are the May RTW ticket deals – these prices are good through May 31, 2009.

• Miami – Rio de Janeiro – Buenos Aires – Santiago – Lima – Bogota – Miami from US$1249 (plus taxes)
• Los Angeles – Tokyo – Singapore – Delhi – Istanbul – Rome – Prague – Madrid – Dublin – Los Angeles from US$1999 (plus taxes)
• New York – Hong Kong – Bangkok – Singapore – Saigon / Ho Chi Minh – Sydney – Johannesburg – Frankfurt – Paris – London – Athens – New York from US$2899 (plus taxes)

These itineraries cover so many points on the globe that it’s hard to imagine you not finding at least one that’s interesting. But if you need to make a minor change to one of them, or want to start over entirely and create something specifically tailored to your dream trip, you can do just that with this easy and fun RTW trip planner.

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Special April fares for RTW tickets

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Seasoned travelers know that summer months generally mean higher prices when it comes to things like airfare and hotel rooms. Even in a time like this, when the overall costs of travel are considerably lower than they might otherwise be, that’s still going to be true – the unbelievably cheap air tickets we saw advertised for winter travel just a few months ago are gone now. But the good news is that some of the prices on summertime trips are the lowest we’ve seen in awhile.

While the cheapest airline tickets – on simple round-trips or longer trips – might still be the ones you’ll get out of the peak season, that doesn’t mean you should put off your search for RTW tickets until after the summer. Some of the deals available this month are truly fantastic.

These are the April RTW ticket deals – these prices are good through April 30, 2009.

• New York – Istanbul – Athens – Rome – Madrid – New York from US$1149 (plus taxes)
• San Francisco – London – Delhi – Singapore – San Francisco from US$1435 (plus taxes)
• Los Angeles – Papeete (Tahiti) – Auckland – Sydney – Saigon / Ho Chi Minh – Da Nang – Hanoi – Hong Kong – Los Angeles from US$2199 (plus taxes)

As mentioned, the itineraries listed here are great deals, but if they don’t quite work for you then consider them food for thought. Then head over to this RTW trip planner and start having some fun creating your own customized itinerary. It’s incredibly addictive to play with, so consider yourself warned!

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