Category Travel Insurance

It’s a question that always comes up when planning and budgeting for a trip. Is the extra expense necessary? Why not save on that premium and spend it on something…

Is travel insurance a rip-off? That is a simple question with a complicated answer. To properly understand this issue, you should first understand what travel insurance is. The definition of…

In November 2007 the MS Explorer, carrying over 150 tourists and crew hit an iceberg in the Antarctic and sank. Miraculously, no souls were lost or turned into human lollipops,…

So you’ve done it. After months of shopping and browsing through brochures you’ve gone ahead and setup your dream vacation and finally decided on your perfect destination of choice. But…

Taking a holiday or business trip is usually quite straightforward. Most of the time, you buy your tickets, fork out a bit extra for travel insurance (because it’s just what…

It seems that many people in the UK ask themselves this question and conclude that there isn’t a reason to take out travel insurance. For a very few this may…

The primary benefit of travel insurance is the knowledge that should something go wrong while you are abroad, you won’t be responsible for finding the money to put it right,…

Consumers often rely on the travel insurance available as part of their credit card facility, medical aid cover or insurance policies, but this could leave travellers stranded in a foreign…

Traveling can be exciting and rewarding, but it can also be expensive when the unexpected occurs far from home such as sickness or injury, travel delay, baggage loss, or worse.…

Getting medical treatment in Europe has been easy enough for a number of years now, by way of the E111 form. You may not have heard of the form which…