Have about 25K – 35K American or United miles to get you home from Tokyo? Want to visit both Budapest/Prague and Tokyo for under $400 from Los Angeles? Well, you can with this! Round the world for under $400 and 35,000 frequent flyer miles is amazing!
Also remember to enter our $200 Visa Gift Card Giveaway and LoungeBuddy Cathay Pacific Free Trip to Hong Kong Sweepstakes.
H/T: man4business on FlyerTalk
5/24/2014 @ 1:10AM Eastern – FARE GONE
Please do not call Alitalia etc to book. This is a mistake fare — the fuel surcharges are being left off! Priceline will also works for booking. If Orbitz isn’t giving you the itinerary you want, try Priceline!
Sample Date:
- November 12th:
- LAX – CDG (Paris) – FCO (Rome) – BUD (Budapest)
- For Prague, replace BUD with PRG
- LAX – CDG (Paris) – FCO (Rome) – BUD (Budapest)
- November 17th
- BUD – AMS (Amsterdam) – NRT (Tokyo)
Fare Availability:
- Between November and March
How to Search for Availability:
- Go to Google/Flights and enter it as multi-city.
- As you can see, we entered it as:
- LAX – BUD
- BUD – NRT
- Play with the dates to find the price — the initial price might be higher. The price will show once you confirm the Air France, Alitalia and KLM flights
- You will have to play around with the dates, but the date range you can depart is above. Monday through Thursday will give you best pricing.
Fare Class:
- V and L
Routing:
- LAX – CDG (Paris) – FCO (Rome) – BUD (Budapest) – AMS (Amsterdam) – NRT (Tokyo)
Mileage:
- 13,988 miles or 2.6 cents per mile. Alitalia, Air France, KLM are members of the SkyTeam alliance and Delta partner. This fare will earn 100% mileage with Delta.
How to Book:
- Support us by using our Orbitz link to book with dates found on ITA Software Matrix Airfare Search. Make sure you select multi-city and enter it as below with the corresponding dates
- Segment 1: LAX – BUD
- Segment 2: BUD – NRT
- It will price $7 more than Google Flights because Orbitz is charging a $7 fee for multi-carrier itineraries
- Save $400 off your next travel purchase after signing up for the Barclaycard Arrival Plus™ World Elite MasterCard®.* Earn 40,000 bonus miles when you spend $3,000 on purchases in the first 90 days – that’s enough to redeem for a $400 travel statement credit
How to Get Back to the United States:
Getting back to the United State is cheap on miles. If you have between 25-35K American or United miles you are golden. You can also buy a one-way for under $700!
Option 1 – 25K American Airlines Miles (Off-Peak). 32.5K (Peak)
Option 2 – 35K United Miles
Accommodations:
For hotel bookings, we recommend that you only book using online travel agencies (Hotels.com, HotelsCombined.com or Hotwire.com) if it is a non-chain hotel. We don’t want you to miss out on earning rewards with chain hotels.
- Accor Hotels
- Sofitel, Pullman, M Gallery, Grand Mercure, Novotel, Mercure, Ibis
- Aloft Hotels
- CheapTickets
- Country Inns and Suites
- Four Points
- Hilton Hotels
- Waldorf Astoria, Conrad, Hilton, DoubleTree, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Inn, Homewood Suites, Home2
- Hotels.com
- HotelsCombined.com
- Hotwire
- Intercontinental Group
- Intercontinental, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites, Candlewood Suites
- Le Meridien
- Orbitz
- Preferred Hotels & Resorts
- Preferred, Sterling, Summit
- Radisson Hotels
- Radisson Blu, Radisson, Park Plaza, Park Inn, Hotel Missioni
- Sheraton
- Venere
- Westin
- W Hotels
- Wyndham Hotels
- Wyndham, Tryp, Wingate, Hawthorn, Microtel, Dream, Planet Hollywood, Ramada, Night, Baymont, Days Inn, Super 8, Howard Johnson, Travelodge, Knights Inn
Car Rentals
- Avis – US and Canadian Rentals
- CarRentals.com
- Fox Rent A Car
- Hotwire
- Orbitz
- Payless Car Rental
- Sixt Car Rental – Good Agency for Rentals in Europe
Background Information:
Hungary:
- Visa: US Citizens – not required. Other nationals, check the TIMATIC Visa Database
- Currency: Hungarian Forint (HUF). $1USD = 220 HUF
Netherlands:
- Visa: US Citizens – not required. Other nationals, check the TIMATIC Visa Database
- Currency: Euro (EUR). $1USD = 0.73 EUR
Japan:
- Visa: US Citizens – Not required. Other nationals, check the TIMATIC Visa Database
- Currency: Japanese Yen (JYP) $1USD = 101.53 JPY
Tips for saving when using credit cards at international destinations:
- No Foreign Transaction Fee Credit Cards to save on international purchases
- Don’t get hit with Dynamic Currency Conversion
- Get your taxes refunded when shopping
- How to Avoid International Data Roaming Charges
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- Go to the The Los Angeles Flight Deals page
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