The flights have been booked, it is all feeling real now, we are actually going travelling.
After many weeks of searching the Internet, telephone calls and emails to find which company to use to book our flights, we decided to book with STA Travel. We sat in the Guildford branch for over 4 hours searching for the best deal. With a lot of date switching and swooping one airline for another we found the route we wanted at a price we were very happy with. Andy, the travel agent at STA Travel who we were dealing with was fantastic and a massive help. I think it would be fair to say though that as we walked out the door he was probably glad to see the back of us.
Booking some of the flights have been a little difficult due to airlines only releasing seats 11 months in advanced. As some of the flights are more than 11 month in advance the dates for the latter part of the trip have to be dummy dates until the seats are released later in the year. This however shouldn’t be too much of a problem as STA offer a package which allows unlimited flight changes for £99, this is something that we managed to negotiate into the price of our ticket, and now allows us to change the later flights in out trip to dates that suit our timetable.
The flights are as follows:
Flying with Emirates - Heathrow to Bangkok - Tuesday 4th October 22:00 London
Singapore to Brisbane 12th December
Sydney to Christchurch – date to be confirmed
Auckland to Fiji – date to be confirmed
Fiji to LA – date to be confirmed
LA to home – date to be confirmed
Having now booked the flights I think its fair to say that we are more than a little excited at what lays ahead. Travelling has all of a sudden become real. We leave for Bangkok in four and a half months.
