Travel Insurance in general Reviews

Several years ago my husband suffered a heart attack on our holiday to France. We had booked through a travel agent and taken out insurance, so hopefully when we claimed things would be straightforward. I won't bore you with the details but suffice it to say that the cover provided was by Mondial and our experience when trying to sort things out ...  Read the complete review

How to buy the right cover? It would be easy to simply suggest that anyone going on any trip abroad buys the right travel insurance policy for them and the kind of trip they are making. But how? Firstly, almost certainly price is not the only thing you should consider - and anything that is free won't be if you are left with ...  Read the complete review

OK, you're a traveller - one of the intrepids who takes your family off to the Mediterranean once a year. You spend hours checking out the resorts, research on the web what other visitors have said about the place that takes your fancy and you then make a booking. At this stage, most of us switch off. And this is a big ...  Read the complete review

Be careful when buying travel insurance if, like me, you have a pre-existing medical condition which will not be covered by standard travel insurance. This may include things like, previous heart conditions, lung conditions, blood and blood pressure problems, cancer, or any condition for which you are currently on medication. When ...  Read the complete review

I recently used their family rate for a european holiday up to 17 days and it worked out half the price of any other I could find. From a cost saving point of view I couldnt find anything cheaper. I would probaly use them again but I would be interested to know If anyone has had to put a claim in and how the service held up. ...  Read the complete review

I booked a holiday recently and was about to get sucked into that “buy our insurance…” thing when I heard the cost. It was going to cost me nearly £40 for a week! I booked the holiday but exerted my right to shop around first. In the end, for convenience I went to my university travel agents. It only cost me £18 to insure me ...  Read the complete review

Six weeks before we were due to go to Tunisia for a Winter holiday, my sun-loving partner was identified as having possible melignant melanoma requiring a major operation and skin graft, to remove the offending article, sadly the predicted diagnosis turned out, on this occasion, to be spot-on. Bearing in mind my history with Thomsons, and ...  Read the complete review

I have done a lot of travelling in the last ten years and I would say that insurance is where the travel agents really slot a few tenners in the back pocket. Package tours and bargains on the high street that look so sexy nearly always include their insurance to get the price. I think it’s their second biggest rip off out side of the ...  Read the complete review

Myself and my wife have just returned from an excellent weeks holiday in the Loire Valley, France. Whilst we were there the dispute over fuel prices came to a head and the petrol blockade began. This didn't worry us too much as - 1) we were in the countryside and the local petrol didn't run out until Thursday 2) we ...  Read the complete review

Ok so most of you looking at this site will already be thinking of travel insurance - Trying to find the cheapest prices - Best deals ( scrougeing). Five years ago I took my family on a ferry/drive trip to Disneyland Paris. On the way back, driving through rouen, I was stationary at traffic lights and was hit from behind by a ...  Read the complete review

I love travel and have been on some great hols to various destinations but what really bugs me about booking these holidays is the insurance issue. I am a sensible (ish) adult and do appreciate the necessity of travel insurance, what upsets me is the way it is now sold. Travel Agents are no longer allowed to offer discounts on condition that you ...  Read the complete review

We travelled to Florida earlier this year via Schipol. Unfortunately we were delayed an hour in Edinburgh and missed our connection in Amsterdam. As it was Queen's day ( their busiest day) we unable to continue our journey until the next afternoon and had to spend the night in Amsterdam - not much fun with 2 kids, no local currency and no ...  Read the complete review

If, like me, you are not content to lie on a beach but prefer to do something a bit more active- beware! Make sure you read the small print of any travel insurance before you take it out. It may not cover you for activities such as sailing, diving, snorkelling etc. These are not especially high risk persuits but a lot of the cheaper ...  Read the complete review

A word of warning to all those going on holiday, we have just been to Ibiza, unfortunatly my seven year old son started complaining of ear ache, and kept me up all night crying, so I duly called the doctor, which I assumed my Thomson medical insurance would cover, and we would not have to make any payment. To my shock when I produced my insurance ...  Read the complete review