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Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / February 2006Round the World trip- should we go Left or Right???
Hi My wife and I are in the very early stages of thinking about a Round the World trip. Apart from New Zealand (I was there many years ago in the Merchant Navy) and the USA (My wife's brother lives there) we haven't actually given any thought of any other stopovers as yet, or direction of travel. Stopovers are easy to decide on, but out of curiosity, is there a preferred direction of travel for flying round the World; do we start from the UK and fly West? - Or is flying East the better option? What are people's opinions - West or East and why? I know that on frequent flights to the US to visit my wife's brother, I am usually not affected by jet lag after flying West to the USA at the start of our trip, but I am seriously affected on arriving home after flying East back to the UK, but cannot decide whether the fact that jet lag doesn't bother me flying to the US - but does flying home - is merely the "excitement" of starting a holiday or something physiological. Regards KGB > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > KGB Definately travel West to minimise jet-lag. But be aware that you will lose a day of your vacation. If you travel East you will gain a day, but it will come from getting up early at each stop. >> Hi >> [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >If you travel East you will gain a day, but it will come from getting up >early at each stop. Could be just me, but I always have less jet-lag when I travel East. I prefer the short days and short nights. I find it easier to come to terms with that than those endless hours sitting on planes to find you've only moved on a couple of hours time wise. There is definately something in the difference between going and comming though, which ever direction it is. --==++AJC++==-- >>> Hi >>> [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > ever direction it is. > --==++AJC++==-- Definitely travel west. We did this, and we went USA, Fiji, Sydney, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Phuket, Bangkok, Dubai, Home. We never suffered any jetlag at all. We did lose that day though which was very strange. Have a great time, which we were doing it again. What sort of timing are you allowing too? We thought we had plenty with two months, but we were quite surprised at how little time we got to seeing some of the places we visited in more detail. The message <43fee95e$0$49817$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net> from "Miss L. Toe" <missltoemissltoe@hotmail.com> contains these words: > If you travel East you will gain a day, but it will come from getting up > early at each stop. You also get the last leg from the US with more weight allowance for those trinkets;) I really have no idea which is 'best', but those I have known do it, have gone east; none have gone west first.  SignaturePam > The message <43fee95e$0$49817$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net> > from "Miss L. Toe" <missltoemissltoe@hotmail.com> contains these words: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > You also get the last leg from the US with more weight allowance for > those trinkets;) You should get the full transatlantic weight allowance for the whole trip. (But not for any side trips that are not on the RTW ticket) > I really have no idea which is 'best', but those I have known do it, > have gone east; none have gone west first. http://www.statravel.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/SID-0A536D8E-0BB9FE1A/uk_division_web_li ve/hs.xsl/914.htm has a fun RTW planner, and were very helpful to the one person I know who has done an RTW. The message <43ff03ab$0$36557$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net> from "Miss L. Toe" <missltoemissltoe@hotmail.com> contains these words: > http://www.statravel.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/SID-0A536D8E-0BB9FE1A/uk_division_web_li ve/hs.xsl/914.htm > has a fun RTW planner, and were very helpful to the one person I know who > has done an RTW. That is a great link, thanks... got some very reasonable prices from a few lovely trips... pity I do not have the time to go:( SignaturePam > http://www.statravel.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/SID-0A536D8E-0BB9FE1A/uk_division_web_li ve/hs.xsl/914.htm >has a fun RTW planner, and were very helpful to the one person I know who >has done an RTW. There is another RTW planner at www.airtreks.com >Hi > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >Regards Have a look at the BA jetlag advisor: http://www.britishairways.com/travel/arsleepimpact2/public/en_us http://www.britishairways.com/travel/drsleep/public/en_us?redirect=RD_DRSLEEP -- Kristian > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > - is merely the "excitement" of starting a holiday or something > physiological. Westbound from the UK to the US you're flying with the sun; back to the UK it is an overnight trip with a large time change. That's why westbound usually makes more sense to me, The exception, of course, is from the US West Coast to Australia/New Zealand, or if you choose an overnight trip from the UK to Asia/Australia. > Regards > > KGB My friends who have done the trip did west to east and made certain to ship things home every time they reached a reliable package shipping spot. They did wind up sticking to parts of the world with fairly similar (warm) climates though - too much luggage the other way. Carol Editor - Lowfares.com http://www.lowfares.com Westbound is far less of a chore on the body & brain, at least in my experiences. As one who detests a) ultra long haul flying and b) overnight flights, going West allows me to avoid overnight flying in almost every region - even trans-Pacific. > Westbound is far less of a chore on the body & brain, at least in my > experiences. > As one who detests a) ultra long haul flying and b) overnight flights, > going West allows me to avoid overnight flying in almost every > region - even trans-Pacific. Yep this is what sells it to me too. The loss of a nights sleep by travelling overnight (having never successfully slept on a plane) is far more of a problem to me than the time shift. tim >> Westbound is far less of a chore on the body & brain, at least in my >> experiences. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > successfully slept on a plane) is far more of a problem to me > than the time shift. Plus after you spend a long time travelling you also have the benefit of it being just about time to go to bed, so you can sleep it off! e.g. When I went London to Seattle I arrived at what was to me about 5am, but since it was only 9pm there I had the whole night to sleep it off and when I woke up in the morning I was adjusted, no problem. Going back is the killer, I've never been so tired in my entire life. So all the better if you never have to fly the eastbound leg! |
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