Special September fares for multi-stop tickets on BootsnAll

I’ve been in Milan for the last week, and although I’d heard the horror stories before about the torture that is Milan in August I hadn’t yet experienced it firsthand before my arrival last Tuesday. Y’know that old saying about air being so thick you could cut it with a knife? While I’ve always heard that saying used to describe a tense situation, when I stepped out of the terminal at Linate Airport and was hit with the heavy, humid, dense air of midday, I felt like I’d need a machete to even hail a taxi.

But then late on August 29, something happened – the weather started to change. It was still kind of muggy, but by September 1 the humidity was gone. The change was so quick, from late summer to early autumn almost literally overnight, that I wouldn’t have believed it possible had I not just felt it myself.

All this is to say that I’m pretty sure Milan isn’t alone in going through a dramatic change with the change in seasons. If your summer job is ending, if you’ve just sent your last kid off to college, or if you just want a change of scenery, this is the perfect time to start planning a RTW trip. The itineraries listed below should get you itching to get on a plane – especially the third one, which is one of the rare tickets that will truly take you around the world.

Here are the new special deals on multi-stop airline tickets available through BootsnAll – these deals are good through September 30, 2009:

• Chicago – Cape Town – surface – Johannesburg – Nairobi – London – Chicago, from $US1249 plus taxes
• Los Angeles – Papeete (Tahiti) – Auckland – Sydney – Saigon / Ho Chi Minh – Da Nang – Hanoi – Hong Kong – Los Angeles, from US$2149 plus taxes
• New York – London – Paris – Prague – Rome – Athens – Johannesburg – Kilimanjaro – surface – Nairobi – Bombay / Mumbai – Delhi – Bangkok – Singapore – Bali (Denpasar) – Sydney – Auckland – Nadi (Fiji) – Los Angeles – Honolulu – New York, from US$3999 plus taxes

Of course, if none of these itineraries suits you, you can create your own trip using our RTW trip planner.