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130,000 MR points
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130,000 MR points
45,000 CIBC Aventura Points†
40,000 Scene+ points
35,000 RBC Avion points†
Uncategorized Oct 23, 2025
Reviews Jun 26, 2025
Deals Jun 18, 2025
What company did you go with for the balloon ride?
Turquaz Balloons. Pretty good quality and price – 165 EUR per person.
Ricky,
I am planning to do miniRTW but looks like I cannot have to go Istanbul twice if I want to go to NAV (Cappadocia) and it’s not really possible due to the miniRTW rules as far as I know. How do I go about this issue? I am going west bound from YVR to ATH and then Turkey and then JOH and Asia and back.
Thank you
Easy – simply have a stopover in IST and then buy a cash ticket to NAV. It was really cheap – about $70 roundtrip.
Wow. It is hard to top what you did and saw on this trip.
Hi Ricky
congratulations
Is it possible to have your detailed route, stopover, layover for this travel?
You can refer to the original post I wrote before taking the trip: princeoftravel.com/blog/booked-a-journey-through-the-old-world
Awesome review Ricky! How much a night was Oia, Santorini?
It was 60,000 Bonvoy points a night, which I booked before the March 2019 category increases. Nowadays it’s 85,000 points a night, and when peak/off-peak rates are introduced it’ll vary between 70,000 and 100,000 points a night.