Page 1 of Travel Insurance - Any Recommendations?

Just booked our flights to San Francisco - woohoo! 8)

Now we need travel insurance. Anyone got any thoughts on who to go with, or avoid like the plague?

Egg look quite cheap (got an Egg card so get a 10% discount), Elephant wasn`t much dearer.

We`re going for 14 days, so need cover for that amount of time, or would possibly consider annual insurance depending on the price.

Ta

Try the Post Office, decent price and good cover. Always check what you are and are not covered for and what excess there is etcetera.

Nick

Always used http://www.norwichunion.co.uk/

Normally the cheapest by a few quid. Been using them for about 5 or 6 years. Not sure what they are like for the US though (most places charge more) used them for Europe and Far East.

I went to San fran is Feb and used these http://www.24drtravel.com/index.asp . It was the cheapest I could find.


Cheers

This year I am off to Sri Lanka and The Maldives for my Honeymoon.
So searched for a week or so at loads fo different travel insurers.
In the end by far the best was Churchill Insurance
I think it was £64 for both us.
At Sainsburys/Tescos type ones were £80
and others ranged from £90-150

Post office by the way would charge us £110 - so pretty steep.

http://www.churchill.com

I have annual multi-trip cover from Argos - their travel insurance prices start at £10.99

Try www.atlasdirect.net - they won a Which? Magazine Best Buy award a couple of months ago (they check the level of cover etc. and took that into account with the price). We got insurance for a 10-day trip to Spain for £11.77 each.

Gosure are also supposed to be pretty good.

Shaun

DIRECT TRAVEL

A trip to the states comes out at 55 quid for 2 people.. THE cheapest anywhere... and i`ve been using them for about 3 years now

W/R,
There`s already plenty of suggestions offered for your consideration ( We`ve found the Post Office good for shorter haul cover ) .

So enjoy your holiday, I`m sure you`ve worked damn hard for it, ( and everyone resident in the great Cumbernauld Metropolis needs to see how badly the rest of the world compares to our magnicent town centre facilities ) 8)

Cheers P.

P.S. Do you know that in Cumbernauld Town centre we now have our very own Rangers F.C retail outlet ? ( no need to worry about the reaction of the other half of the old firm`s supporter`s )
Beat that, shopping malls of America !! :/

This item was edited on Wednesday, 30th July 2003, 09:25

Thanks for the suggestions, I`ll have a look into them all.

kywy - don`t know how`ll I`ll cope without the magnificent Phase 5 experience - and the thought of Phase 6 just makes my knees go weak. Nothing a bomb couldn`t improve.

Anyway I thought swear words were automatically starred out on these forums? How did R****** manage to slip through the net. :p