With the rising cost of airline tickets on even the simplest of round-trip itineraries, you might just have assumed that around the world tickets would be so astronomically expensive as to make such a trip unthinkable. You might have assumed that you’ll have to postpone your RTW trip indefinitely, or at least until gas prices drop a bit or you’ve managed to save up that extra few thousand to cover airfare. Well, the good news is that although you may have trouble finding things like cheap international airline tickets on simple routes, we’ve got some great deals on RTW tickets for July.
The routes on this month’s special fares list start in either San Francisco, New York, or Los Angeles. The first takes in the highlights of Asia for $1799, including Angkor Wat, Bangkok, Xian, and Tokyo. The second gets you from South Africa to Bali to Bangkok, al for under $2300. And even our most expensive RTW trip deal for July is under $2500 – and it’ll let you see two of Europe’s most amazing cities (London and Paris) as well as world-class destinations in South Africa and China as well.
Here are the July RTW ticket deals – these prices are good through July 31, 2008.
- San Francisco – Singapore – Saigon / Ho Chi Minh – surface – Hanoi – Luang Phrabang – Angkor Wat (Siem Reap) – Bangkok – Xian – surface – Beijing – Tokyo – San Francisco from US$1799 (plus taxes)
- New York – Cape Town – Bali (Denpasar) – Singapore – Bangkok – Hong Kong – New York from US$2299 (plus taxes)
- Los Angeles – London – Paris – Cape Town – surface – Johannesburg – Hong Kong – Beijing – Los Angeles from US$2499 (plus taxes)
And if these itineraries don’t tickle your fancy completely, that doesn’t mean you have to twiddle your thumbs until next month’s deals come out – start planning your own customized RTW trip in seconds and hit just the cities you want.