Thomas Cook Travel Insurance

There are times in life when a rip off leaps out and grabs you! The insurance policies sold by travel agents and tour companies are so obviously poor value for bog standard protection, that shopping around for insurance is best done before booking the holiday! When Thomas Cook quoted me £169.95 to insure my clan on holiday for two weeks in Minorca, I cracked up laughing. Given that we could book a basic self-catering holiday in the UK for a week for this sum, I knew there had to be a better option. Not too much wrong with the cover offered. Just the price! I surfed in to AOL land and tried their recommended cover from Lloyds TSB. Well, they were ...  Read the complete review

I must admit, I had never booked with Thomas Cook until a couple of years ago. Reason being is I had always been told they were expensive. It appears nowadays one holiday firm is the same as any other so it blows that theory clean out of the water. They are always very busy when I go in there so that too is a good sign! Recently I booked the holiday of a lifetime for my honeymoon. To make it a bit different, we wanted to spend a bit of time talking it through with someone, have it taylored for us and most of all, plan it properly. This is where the Thomas Cook service took over. We booked an appointment with their "long distance and ...  Read the complete review

But it ciould have been worse had we not taken out this great insurance. The insurance was purchased with our holiday from Thomas Cook, not sure which company they use to underwrite so tha't why it's in this section! Anyway, last year off we went on our jollies (me and my wife to be) to the lovely Island of Cyprus - reviewed elsewhere! We could only afford a weeks self catering, and the reson we bought the insurance was that my fiance's mother works for the company and twisted my arm! Thank goodness for (future) mothers in law! Anyway we wre having a great holiday in the resort of Ayia Napa (I'm not going to plug this one!) ...  Read the complete review