Costs

Pre-Trip
Since this is our first time traveling around the world we really have no idea what things will cost and how much we are going to spend. As we start narrowing down our itinerary and things we want to see on our trip, the costs are becoming clearer. With inspiration from GoBackPacking.com’s pre-trip cost spreadsheet, we created our own. It should be interesting to compare our pre- and post-trip costs as we go along. Click here to see our estimated trip costs.

Airline tickets
Deciding whether to book our trip through one of the alliance members, an agency specializing in RTW travel (like Airtreks), or going it alone was not an easy decision. In the end, we felt we might be able to find better deals by remaining flexible and doing it ourselves. Airtreks is probably a good “in-between” option, but we could not figure out how they offered anything beyond what we could do ourselves (as any ticket changes/cancellations incurred fees as well). Below are the costs quoted by the alliance members and our projected do-it-ourselves costs.