Travel plan idea blog

Did I imagine an ad for Cathay pacific round-the-world flights?

I was playing with Cathay Pacific's Oneworld system to see what kinds of fun itineraries I could dream up and what they'd cost.

I thought I saw an ad a week or two ago about Cathay pacific round-the-world tickets for around $2,000. That seemed like a possibly affordable way to visit family in New York, get some good pizza in Italy, and see Angkor Watt in Cambodia.

I couldn't find anything close to what I was looking for though. According to the website, a 3 continent Oneworld explorer package starting in the US would cost $3,900 for economy, $8,600 for business and $11,600 for first class.

Then the Global Explorer package starts at $4,500 for under 26,000 miles. I'm guessing that's tier 1: "Minimum of 3, maximum of 5 stopovers, with no more than 2 within any region." Doesn't seem like much of a deal but by this point I was a bit confused.

I'm not even sure what the difference is between the Oneworld explorer and the Global explorer packages. There must be a reason why they bother making the distinction but I didn't notice it explained anywhere.

By the way, blog entries should start coming more regularly soon. I'm still busy working on my textbook but a few other things should soon be over. I really need to finish my visits to the dentist. My teeth felt fine before I went and all I wanted was a good cleaning. They cleaned my teeth for 2 minutes and said I keep my teeth perfectly clean so there's nothing else for them to do. But they charged me $50 for the cleaning and found 3 cavities (which cost a lot more than $50 each). I'm done with 2 of them but I have a chunk of a tooth missing and Thursday I get my first ever gold filling.

And I still don't understand why I got cavities if my teeth are so clean...

Posted by James Trotta at October 29, 2008 11:28 PM