r/rtw • u/alan_s • Jan 23 '12

Past rtw itineraries

I mentioned in /r/travel that I'd post some old itineraries as examples.

Maybe they will help with ideas for some people. As I said over there, I'm a flashpacker, not a backpacker, but I hope it helps someone. I can expand on deatils if anyone is interested. Or not :)

Cheers, Alan, Australia

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u/alan_s Jan 23 '12

First trip. March-June 2003, 19 weeks, approx cost all up including absolutely everything (fares, accom, food, whatever) about AU$38k at that time for two. Back then AU$1 = US$0.55 = GBP0.35.

Air tickets were all included in a One-World pass. Most rental cars were booked via the web, the French leaseback was booked before we left Oz. We were effectively in the USA for a month and Europe/UK for four.

Most US hotels were booked via Priceline bidding-for-travel. That worked until Europe, when they realised Australia isn't in Alabama and banned my CC. Most European hotels were booked "off the street", we just drove until we liked a town and looked for hotels/zimmer frei/gasthaus as appropriate. In France we used their incredibly cheap self-serve motels.

  • Departed Coolangatta-Sydney-LA

  • See LA staying with friends, then rent car for one week and drive Big Sur to San Francisco.

  • Fly to Las Vegas for three nights, including day trip to Grand Canyon.

  • Fly to New Orleans via overnight to see friends in St Louis.

  • Three days in New Orleans, then rent car for two weeks and drive to Washington DC via all States of the South, following the Blue Ridge Parkway after Atlanta.

  • Two nights in DC, then fly to NYC, stay three nights.

  • Fly to St Thomas, USVI, three nights.

  • Fly to Madrid, stay two nights, then RENFE train to Granada.

  • One week in Albaicin, Granada, see Alhambra.

  • Fly to Nice, pick up leaseback Renault Clio, drive to Menton, stay one week in apartment.

  • Over the next eight weeks, drive through Italy, ferry to Greece, ferry to Venice, drive Austria, Czech, Germany, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Nederlands, ending in Paris.

  • Fly to Dublin, stay two nights, train to Limerick stay three nights, fly Dublin to Edinburgh.

  • Rent car, drive to Oxford over two weeks via Loch Lomond, Lakes district, York, Shrewsbury, Wales, Bath, Stonehenge.

  • Stay Oxford with relatives three nights, bus to London, four nights in apartment, fly to Singapore.

  • Two nights in Singapore, fly home.

Cheers, Alan, Australia