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# RTW Offer from Europe?? Country forums / Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea
louiz 00:46 UTC 21 Sep 2007 | Hi, 3 months looking for a RTW offer from London, Frankfurt..., October to March, but very very expensive, around 3.000 €. I´d like stops in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and Rarotonga, for 6 months. I don´t mind only stops in Fiji and Raro, but impossible find it cheaper. Please, any advice would be a great help. Thanks |
raro 03:14 UTC 21 Sep 2007 | Flights between Fiji and Rarotonga will stop at the end of next month. If you are on Air NZ, you can hit Fiji, OR Tonga and Samoa. | 1
Laszlo 08:32 UTC 21 Sep 2007 | Note that if you choose to stop in Samoa and Tonga, you could add Fiji as a cheap side-trip from Tonga with Air Pacific. If you use Air NZ, you could also have Rarotonga as a stopover between the US and NZ, but it would be quite hard/expensive to combine it with anywhere else in the South Pacific. If your RTW wouldn't involve Air NZ, Fiji would be the most likely possiblity. In that case you could still get a Triangle Fare to fly Fiji-Samoa-Tonga-Fiji with Air Pacific quite cheaply. | 2
louiz 05:49 UTC 23 Sep 2007 | Thanks a lot both for the information. And I´d like to know normally how much budget travelers pay for a 1 year RTW ticket from London... (London-Aukland-Fiji-London, for exemple) and which travel company. Thanks again. | 3
raro 08:00 UTC 23 Sep 2007 | Not sure of the prices, but I think it was something like US$1500 or so, maybe a bit less or more. But the main thing for South Pacific travel is to pick which of the two main alliances you want to travel on, Star Alliance which includes Air NZ, or One World, which includes Qantas. And that of course depends on where you want to stop. Check the route maps for each, and see what the fares are for each, depending on where you plan to go. | 4
silvanocat 08:24 UTC 23 Sep 2007 | If that is your route then consider a roundtrip ticket to Auckland instead of a RTW. That way you could stop at either Fiji or the Cooks in one direction and hit Samoa and Tonga on the return. I bet it would price out cheaper than a RTW. | 5
Laszlo 18:48 UTC 23 Sep 2007 | Indeed, if you have no interest in Australia (which could still be a cheap add-on from NZ) and especially Asia (which could not), an Air NZ ticket would be worth looking into. Though as they seem to charge extra for island sopovers these days, it may not work out cheaper than a RTW. You could start looking at fares from London here - but do also check Air NZ's own website, even websiteS, as their UK and German sites tend to offer different fares! | 6
louiz 16:33 UTC 24 Sep 2007 | Thanks so much. | 7