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Was just browsing the Globe Busters web site. They offer a RTW trip lasting 40 weeks for £75'000. Do you think anyone would actually pay this?
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That amount would last us 5.5 years at our current spending!!!
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Honestly. Thats interesting.
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And the rest: £75k PLUS the cost of your own bike incl servicing/ consumables, fuel, own airfares, most lunches and evening meals...

I don't think I'm their target audience.

Good luck to Kevin And Julia. I'm sure there are people who'll pay that sort of money.
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I'll do it for £37.5k and it'll be good ( minimum group size 10 bikes) you would get a lot more included in that price but still need to provide your own bike.

Serious offer!
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Was just browsing the Globe Busters web site. They offer a RTW trip lasting 40 weeks for £75'000. Do you think anyone would actually pay this?

WOW 75k for 40 weeks is nuts even for a paid tour,if I had that kind of money don't think could part with that much - it is about a fifth of our budget for out two year RTW trip!!
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I think what Mrs Fox meant to say is it's in excess of 5 times our budget for our 2 year round the world trip otherwise, I want to know where this money tree is that is going to magically going to come up with this £375000.00.
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I think what Mrs Fox meant to say is it's in excess of 5 times our budget for our 2 year round the world trip otherwise, I want to know where this money tree is that is going to magically going to come up with this £375000.00.
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While this figure does shock many people, and most of us are indeed doing it for WAY less per day, it can depend.

It's 275 per day. A few top end African game parks, and you'll make a serious dent in it. Easy to blow over 1,000 per day there. A few flights and you could burn another 5k to 10k off that (more if all were first class).

When I worked in software, I would tell clients there were 3 variables they would need to juggle. A project could be A) Cheap, B) Fast or C) Good. I let them pick any 2, and the third would suffer. Always.

To do a Good trip, Fast, it will probably not be cheap.


And no, I wouldn't pay it, but that doesn't mean someone else wouldn't take it in a heart beat. And it may be right down their alley.

And there is a difference between surviving, and living. We have decided we want a really good trip, and I'd prefer 18 great months than 24 miserable months (no booze, skip all attractions, no dinners out....). That said, we don't need to drink hundred euro bottles of wine and eat lobster every day either. Ever actually.

What about the folks that buy €250K+ unicat trucks, and use them for a year and park them up. What's cost per day in depreciation? But still it happens.

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To be fair to Globe Busters it really does depned on what is included in their package.

For some people the best way to go is an organised tour - it's much more time efficient and you probably get to see the best bits without any research on your part.

Looking at their website they do offer a lot of tours at much lower cost but it isn't clear from the site what's included.

My own experience of overland tours is that a lot of time is wasted in administration and whilst it's all part of the 'experience' I would hope that paying £75k for a tour would mean that it was:

1. Quite luxurious in terms of accommodation and food.
2. Stress free - just get up every morning and ride my bike.

But I bet it's not!
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