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Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by megablast »

lukeholder wrote: post #78
damian2000 wrote: post #60

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Its fascinating that some of these destinations seem initially to be way off the beaten track, e.g. Kiev, Perth, Agadir. Never thought they would feature on any cheapest RTW itinerary.

Perth is not off the beaten track. It's the San Fran of Australia!

Perth is one of the remotest cities in the world (along with Honolulu), it is around 3,000 km to the nearest city, with a huge desert in the way.

It might be the San Fran of Australia if you are a miner.

Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by [deleted] »

mseebach wrote: post #49
laumac wrote: post #10

For the cheapest route ($1,730), here are the cities visited: Depart New York - Georgetown (South Am) - New York (North Am) - Berlin (Europe) - Agadir (Africa) - London (Europe) - Turkey (Europe) - Tehran (Asia) - Kuala Lumpur (Asia) - Perth (Oceania) - Bangkok (Asia) - End New York

Geography nitpick: The airport in Istanbul is actually east of the Bosporus, making it Asia.

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Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by Monotoko »

todsul wrote: post #40

Here are the winning flight details: This is a 6-Continent RTW itinerary for $1,730. We personally verified that it's a valid itinerary, and at the time of checking, all flights could be booked. JFK 18-Oct-2012 GEO 18-Oct-2012 Delta (New York, US to Georgetown, Guyana) GEO 25-Oct-2012 JFK 25-Oct-2012 Delta (Georgetown, Guyana to New York, US) JFK 14-Nov-2012 TXL 15-Nov-2012 Air Berlin (New York, US to Berlin, Germany…

Can you break down the price by flight? Or would that be too much information? I'd be interested to see how much each flight costs.

Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by weirdcat »

michael991 wrote: post #97
blyuher wrote: post #95

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No, PMs are not possible, but my email is bblyuher AT gmail dot com. Thanks!

No problem :) Sent!

I feel bad for piggybacking like that, but I'm planning a trip (probably WAW-BKK) and this kind of insight would help me a lot. If you could copy me on that email at notabing --at-- gmail.com, I'd be mighty grateful. :)

Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by aleem »

blyuher wrote: post #93
michael991 wrote: post #81

Hi, I'm the creator of this itinerary. This is a site with great potential. If you appreciate the effort it took to come up with the trip and are interested in trying out the site, please follow my referral link and you'll get a 25% discount on your first flight! http://flightfox.com/referral/16686 Thanks :) Michael

How did you find BKK to KBP to JFK flight? Skyscanner and Hipmunk don't return this within the results. But so doesn't Aerosvit site.

Kayak brings it up for $331 if you search BKK to JFK:

http://www.kayak.com/#/flights/bkk-JFK/2013-04-18

What's interesting is that BKK>JFK is a cheaper itinerary than BKK>KBP so if you wanted to travel BKK>KBP you are better of booking BKK>JFK and throwing away the last leg.

Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by lolcraft »

ramchip wrote: post #63
jerf wrote: post #47

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todsul beat me to it (good show!), but in the spirit of teaching a person to fish: for airport in JFK GEO TXL SXF AGA LGW LTN SAW IKA KUL PER BKK KBP; do curl "http://airportcode.riobard.com/airport/$airport?fmt=JSON"; echo; sleep 1; done Semicolons are present because I did this in one line, left so you can too. Linebreaks are for HN convenience only. echo is because curl doesn't add linefeeds, sleep 1 is to be poli…

Doesn't work on Windows ;)

    $wc = New-Object "System.Net.WebClient"
    $airports = @("JFK", "GEO", "TXL", "SXF", "AGA", "LGW", "LTN", "SAW", "IKA", "KUL", "PER", "BKK", "KBP")
    foreach($airport in $airports) {
        $wc.DownloadString("http://airportcode.riobard.com/airport/" + $airport + "?fmt=json")
    }

Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by damian2000 »

yitchelle wrote: post #96
taligent wrote: post #61

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Perth is the cheapest way to visit Australia if you are already in the Asia region.

After you have done Perth, then what?

Fremantle & Rottnest island are good for tourists and cheap to travel to.

Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by damian2000 »

lukeholder wrote: post #78
damian2000 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its fascinating that some of these destinations seem initially to be way off the beaten track, e.g. Kiev, Perth, Agadir. Never thought they would feature on any cheapest RTW itinerary.

Perth is not off the beaten track. It's the San Fran of Australia!

Amen, I live in Perth and its an awesome place. I meant its off the beaten track of tourists coming to Australia - something like <5% of tourist visitors to Aus take the time to visit Perth.

Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by plasticgun »

mseebach wrote: post #71
todsul wrote: post #53

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Hey mseebach, We had a few issues in the beginning defining these border countries and decided to allow Istanbul as Europe, but will definitely group it for Asia in future. We had a handful of difficult decisions, but luckily the winning entry visited all continents without contention. Guam was the tough one for us. Would you say Oceania?

For the winning intinerary, it's a moot point as both Europe and Asia are represented at different stops. Istanbul Atatürk (TAV) airport is Europe, Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) is in Asia. The border is the straight of Bosporus. Continents are a rather vague concept[1]. Any definition is going to be arbitrary. For the purposes of your contest, I think the spirit would be to have gone to the continents "proper", i.e. I wouldn'…

> I'd be inclined to allow New Zealand as part of Australia as the only exception.

Sure - why not, there's only a sea between us that you can fit an area the size of California to Nebraska into ... pretty close really.

Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by mason55 »

plasticgun wrote: post #109
mseebach wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the winning intinerary, it's a moot point as both Europe and Asia are represented at different stops. Istanbul Atatürk (TAV) airport is Europe, Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) is in Asia. The border is the straight of Bosporus. Continents are a rather vague concept[1]. Any definition is going to be arbitrary. For the purposes of your contest, I think the spirit would be to have gone to the continents "proper", i.e. I wouldn'…

> I'd be inclined to allow New Zealand as part of Australia as the only exception. Sure - why not, there's only a sea between us that you can fit an area the size of California to Nebraska into ... pretty close really.

Are you saying NZ is its own continent? Or that the continent should be referred to as Oceania?
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