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# Pacific tour on budget Country forums / Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea
Bartosz86 16:31 UTC 24 Jul 2016 | Hi guys, me and my wife are planing to travel the world early 2017 I am struggling to find chap way of traveling betwin pacific islands can any one help? we would like to visit: new zealand, samoa, fiji, cook island, french polinesies, Easter island : |
mvbergen 16:35 UTC 24 Jul 2016 | On a budget, it will be very difficult because the distances are huge and the transport options are limited... Michel | 1
Bartosz86 16:42 UTC 24 Jul 2016 | I have checked flight prices but i am sure there is cheaper way of visiting these islands. Has anyone heard about ferries or cargo ships | 2
Laszlo 17:12 UTC 24 Jul 2016 | Good luck. You may be sure, but you are still wrong. There are no ferries between those countries, and the few cargo ships that accept passengers charge more than it would cost to fly - not to mention money spent while waiting for your ship to come by. A Oneworld Explorer RTW ticket is a common way to visit these island on a RTW tour, and it is the only RTW ticket to include the NZ-Tahiti-Easter leg. If RTW tickets don't appeal, you will have to buy oneway ones. These would be much cheaper if you ditched eastern Polynesia and visited only the SW Pacific. | 3
lizzieke 08:45 UTC 02 Aug 2016 | Szia Laszlo First thank you for your contribution, you give really good tips! I am planning to go to discover the Pacific from november onwards and was wondering what is the best itinerary with the RTW ticket for 3 months (including parts of Indonesia and New Zealand perhaps). Will be traveling alone, backpacking style, staying at hostels, campings but would like to get out a bit from the tourist crowd as well. Do you have any suggestions? Amugy meg lenne sok kerdesem, de nem tudok neked privatban irni. Kepzeld, csaladom is Budapesten el, kicsi a vilag :) | 4
Laszlo 08:53 UTC 02 Aug 2016 | Irj ide ! Amilyen kevesen utaznak honfitarsaihk kozul Oceaniaba, az majdnem olyan, mintha privatban irnal. ;-) Mind you, 3 months is an awfully short time for a RTW trip! | 5
lizzieke 09:17 UTC 02 Aug 2016 | You suggested a RTW ticket, so I thought you can travel 3 months in the Pacific using that. Might be not the case, I am searching for a good alternative to just take some one-way flights, which will cost a lot because I am planning to visit a few islands. | 6
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