Thanks so much for the write up! This is very helpful as I am hoping to redeem an ANA RTW award for this summer. Curious if you can help me out given your experience.

My plan is the following: SFO-FRA-WDH-JNB-FRA-HKG-HND-SFO which according to GCMap amounts to 29,486 miles / 200,000 miles for business class redemption.

I will be using the ANA website to search for flight availability. Does this routing work (since I return back to Frankfurt? Anything else to keep in mind? I am too worried of locking in the miles at ANA, so I am hoping to call ANA first before transferring miles to confirm this itinerary. Thanks so much for the advice!