World travel - Weltreisen

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World travel has always been a topic that has interested adventurers. Ever since Jules Verne wrote his classic around the world in 80 days more than 100 years ago, the adventure has become even more concrete. Jules Verne's trip around the world cost £ 20,000, nowadays the pleasure is much cheaper.

A trip around the world is a journey in which every degree of longitude is crossed at least once and often the equator as well.

By plane

Round-the-world ticket

A Round-The-World-Ticket, RTW-Ticket for short, is a special flight ticket that enables a complete circumnavigation of the world. RTW-Tickets usually have a limited number of stopovers (intermediate stops) are common between 3 and 15, which is also the Travel time is limited, from 2 weeks to a year, or the number of continents that can be flown to is limited. The minimum stay per stop is 24 hours to 7 days.

Star Alliance

Star Alliance has the largest selection of 27 airlines serving 1,160 destinations in 181 countries Round the World tariff depends on the miles of the planned trip and the country in which the trip begins. The miles are calculated using the TPM table (TPM: Ticketed Point Mileage) of the IATA (International Air Transport Association): There is also a Special Economy Round the World tariff with 26,000 miles, where the journey cannot begin in Japan Taxes, fees and possible surcharges are added to the RTW tariffs. The tariffs are available in Economy, Business and First Class, while the Eco-Class with 26,000 miles is available from 2,500 euros. The regular RTW tariffs with 29,000, 34,000 or 39,000 miles cost from 3,000, 3,500 and 4,000 euros.

Oneworld

The members of Oneworld offer more than 750 travel destinations in nearly 150 countries.

Here the price depends on the number of continents, 4 to 6 stops per continent are allowed. If you are satisfied with 3 continents, the price starts at around 2,000 euros, for all 6 continents (South and North America are considered different continents) you pay from 3,200 euros upwards. There are 2 ticket variants, the Oneworld Explorer, which only includes the 12 member airlines, and the Oneworld Global Explorer, which is also valid for other airlines. The tickets for the Oneworld Explorer can be booked online, for the Oneworld Global Explorer only at the travel agency.

SkyTeam

SkyTeam offers 916 destinations in 169 countries. The Go Round the World Pass is also available in 4 levels from 26,000 to 39,000 miles with prices between 2,600 euros and 4,100 euros.

By boat

Numerous cruise lines have already discovered the world tour for themselves. Current world trips by well-known shipping companies are listed below. Some of these can also be booked in sections so that you do not have to go on the entire world tour. The longest variant of the trip offered is listed in each case.

  • AIDA Cruises
    • AIDAaura: October 28, 2019 - February 22, 2020, from / to Hamburg (Germany)
  • Costa cruises
    • Costa Deliziosa: 05.01.2020 - 26.04.2020, from / to Venice (Italy)
  • Cunard Line
    • Queen Mary 2: 01/03/2020 - 04/25/2020, from / to New York (USA)
  • MSC cruises
    • MSC Poesia: 10.05.2019 - 25.08.2019, from / to Auckland (New Zealand)
    • MSC Magnificia: 05.01.2020 - 30.04.2020, from / to Genoa (Italy)
    • MSC Poesia: 04.01.2021 - 02.05.2021, from / to Civitavecchia (Italy)
  • Oceania Cruises
    • Oceania Insignia: 01/08/2020 - 07/20/2020, from / to Miami (USA)
  • P&O Cruises
    • Arcadia: 03/01/2020 - 12/04/2020, from / to Southampton (England)
  • Phoenix travel
    • Artania: December 21, 2019 - May 9, 2020, from Hamburg to Bremerhaven (Germany)
    • Albatross: 23.12.2019 - 22.04.2020, from Monte Carlo (Monaco) to Trieste (Italy)
    • Amadea: December 20, 2020 - May 22, 2021, from / to Nice (France)
    • Amera: 22.12.2020 - 26.04.2021, from Monte Carlo (Monaco) to Bremerhaven (Germany)
  • Princess Cruises
    • Sea Princess: 14.05.2019 - 29.08.2019, from / to Sydney (Australia)
    • Pacific Princess: January 5th, 2020 - April 26th, 2020, from / to Fort Lauderdale (USA)
  • Regent Seven Seas Cruises
    • Seven Seas Mariner: 01/06/2020 - 05/17/2020, from / to Miami (USA)
    • Seven Seas Mariner: January 5th, 2020 - April 26th, 2020, from / to Fort Lauderdale (USA)
  • Seabourn Cruise Line
    • Seabourn Sojourn: 04.01.2020 - 28.05.2020, from Miami (USA) to San Francisco (USA)


All data as well as start and destination ports come from https://www.kreuzfahrtberater.de/.

More options

  • With a vehicle
  • By bike: For more than 100 years, people have also been making their way around the world by bike. Some of them went on a world tour by bike, i.e. traveled to many different countries, others have cycled around the world, so tried to really cover all the routes that can be mastered by bike on the complete circumnavigation of the earth by bike. An attempt to explain what a circumnavigation of the world can actually mean can be found in the cycling wiki.
  • On foot
  • By public transport such as train, bus and ferry.

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