plantpot

Any ideas of places we can break out flight for a few days (maybe 4?) on route to Sydney from the UK Mid November?

(not Dubai been here for 3 years already!!!)..

Was thinking Singapore? Any other ideas and where could we stay and what could we do bearing in mind we have a 2 year old.

Many thanks

PP

ossigeno

Florida or LA.

Blossom

Hong Kong

tinkerbelle146hp

hi we flew to Sydney last week with a 2 and 6 yr old.We flew London to LA with United for 5 days took in disney land and Universal great for kids.Also meant we got bigger luggage allowance we had 8 cases at 23 kilos each, 4 bits of hand luggage, a lap top, car seat and pram!!
Other benefit with US flights is your child can sit in thier cars eat on the plane, which my son did, and he slept really well as it was familar to him.
Then we flew from LA to Sydney again with United on a night flight.as we had just flown with them they upgraded us to economy plus for no extra charge (didn't even have to ask!!) so had 5 extra inches of legroom as well.
No complaints about United, they were great, have flown with BA and Virgin and they were rubbish next to United!!!
four tickets cost us £2800 with travel planners so not much more than going the other way, plus the extra baggage!!!
Hope that helps

plantpot

23kgs times 8? so in total 92kgs?
Ahhhh I geddit, with emirates kids seats only allow 10kgs...that's great !!!!
What car seat did you use? Was it a special American compliant one or a sit and stroll? WOuld be mighty handy to have the car seat with us tbh for when we arrive..

plantpot

No I multiplies by 4 not 8!!!!! so you were allowed 46 kgs per person!!!

Seriously!!!

Wandathecat

Hi

We are going to Dubai, Hong Kong, Bangkok (cambodia), Bangkok, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth!!!!

Our multi stop ticket was just as cheap as a one way to perth!!!!

Purchased via www.roundtheworldflights.com. Emirates.

I also know Air NZ were doing some good deals on multi city too!!!

Cx

tinkerbelle146hp

yes thats right we had 46 kgs x 4 so in total 196 kgs, plus lap top bag and 4 hand luggage bags packed full !!!
Car seat we used was normal maxi cosi car seat- forward facing for child over 9 mths.Apparently on american flights they let you sit your child in their seat to fly as long as its american approved....................no body asked me if mine was or wasn't!!!!

paddyo

We flew Singapore Airlines which I always like and stopped off in Singapore for 2 days. Had our 3 year old son and we all enjoyed it. We stayed in Sentosa island resort which had lots to do and see.

Pobman

Oneworld.com have an excellent round the world ticket planner and for not much money I came up with

Moscow - London
London - Toronto
Toronto - Jamaica
Jamaica - Houston
Houston - Hawaii
Hawaii - Tokyo
Tokyo - Singapore
Singapore - Perth
Perth - Melbourne
Melbourne - Brisbane
Brisbane - Sydney

and with the bonus that the ticket has a return to the UK/Russia option still available for the 12 months the ticket is valid should it be needed.

True the above is quite a trip, but there are not many times in life I will get the chance to do it!

Star Alliance offer similar, and in fact the connections worked out a little better, but it cost more. The virgin/singapore/Air NZ offer is pretty good too if you dont want to make quite so many stops.

IvanM

Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Seoul, LA and San Fransisco are the main stopover options. It depends on what floats your boat and what your two year old can eat.

plantpot

2 Year old eats anything that moves...Singapore it is...

Wol

Tokyo's a good stopover.

IvanM

Probably the easiest with a toddler if not the most exciting as an adult.

IvanM

With JAL you can also arrive in Tokyo and depart from Kansai (Osaka). Great if you want to see Tokyo and get a bullet train to Kyoto. Quite an amazing country.