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What should come with travel insurance

By: Estell Giandelone

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If you are considering taking out a travel insurance policy, there are several things to bear in mind. By looking at your requirements and specific needs you can go a long way towards securing a better deal than you might have.

Firstly, it is strongly recommended that you buy travel insurance online. It is a little known fact that while a holiday company may be able to offer you insurance at the time you get the holiday as a package, such policies often work out a lot more expensive and do not cover you for very much. Profit margins on such policies are quite high, but why be ripped off?

The online travel insurance market has boomed in recent years and with good reason. It is so much easier to search for and compare quotes on the internet, with the click of a mouse. To this end, several excellent price comparison and portal sites have been set up enabling you to find the best deal.

Looking at the actual policy itself, you should be clear whether it is applicable to the activities you will undertake on holiday. This sounds obvious, but with some policies winter sports cover is not included as part of the main policy which means that if you were involved in a skiing accident the enormous cost of being airlifted and medically repatriated would fall wholly on you rather than the insurer. If your skis or snowboard were lost, damaged or stolen, you might also not be able to claim for it.

Similarly, some policies do not necessarily cover 'adventure sports' such as windsurfing or even kayaking, and it is highly advised to read the small print ? or trade up to a higher policy. Simply going for the cheapest is not necessarily the best way to do things.

One essential thing to look for in your policy is age related cover if you are over 65. Many insurance companies are reluctant to insure those over retirement age and consequently the standard types of insurance policies would not cover you. A major benefit of taking out a tailored policy for those over the age of 65 is that medical benefits are greatly increased, from the usual ?1m or ?2m to ?10m for example. They also include extra curtailment and cancellation cover, which comes in very handy.

If you are travelling with your family, it is advised that if possible you take out cover for all the family, and a family travel insurance policy makes a whole lot more sense than buying individual policies not least from the cost savings. This is especially so if older children might then be travelling independently from you further on in the year ? take out an annual policy and ensure that they are written in to it, thus saving further expense of having to buy additional policies when they travel.

Lastly, you may want to look at your existing home insurance policy cover ? while you could potentially claim for lost or stolen belongings on your home insurance, this may have the effect of increasing premiums significantly the following year and it is more cost effective to claim on the policy than on the more expensive home insurance one. Therefore check that the policy contains cover for personal effects lost or stolen while away.

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