Special May fares for RTW tickets

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.