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Travel Insurance

Travel Insurance provides some safety and peace of mind when travelling, touring, voyaging, adventuring, or just going on holiday. If you come a cropper while a long way from home, the insurance company helps you out. It's especially important to think about travel insurance in advance before travelling and to take it seriously, especially if you normally live in a cushy country where state provision of insurance (funded by tax) is an assumption in life while at home.

It's best it not be ignored,
that when travelling abroad,
you're not state insured!

The solution is simple: Get some travel insurance before you travel. It's less expensive than might be assumed, because travelling is much safer than most people might guess, and travel insurance companies can spread the risk so it's fair to everyone.

Here is a list of a few companies who can provide travel insurance:

InsureAndGo *

Endsleigh *

Lloyds Insurance *

AA Travel Insurance *
Travel insurance as well as car breakdown recovery

Churchill Travel Insurance *

Direct Travel Insurance *

Barclays Travel Insurance *

Cheap Travel Insurance *

Columbus Direct Travel Insurance *

The Post Office *

Insure With Ease *

J S Insurance *
Don't just cross your fingers; click for instant comprehensive travel insurance from £9.95

Asda Annual Travel Insurance *

Asda Single-Trip Travel Insurance *

Churchill * - aw YES! welcome back!

Essential Travel *

Direct Line Travel Insurance *

Argos Travel Insurance *

Worldwide Insure *

MultiNational Underwriters - USA *

American Express Travel Insurance *

1Stop Travel Insurance *

The following ossuary is a list of places whose affiliate program has gone:

Norwich Union *

Norwich Union Annual Travel Insurance *

Norwich Union Single Travel Insurance *

Zurich *

RAC Travel Insurance *

More Than > Annual Travel Insurance *

Skydeals *

Marks and Spencer Travel Insurance *

GoSure Ltd * (awin)

World Nomads * - Link temporarily removed as we are PENDING at DGM Australia. This is also on the page of Australian Stuff

Primary Insurance *

aspro *

Go Travel Insurance (awin) *

Club Direct Insurance *

TravelCov * - Travel Insurance Specialists (awin)

The preceding is a list of places whose affiliate program has gone

Hastings Direct Travel Insurance - was http://www.hastingsdirecttravel.com - see Hastings Direct

Also, did you know, if you open an HSBC Bank Account you get free worldwide travel insurance?!

Travel insurance can insure you against your luggage getting lost but more notably it can insure you against ill health or accident while you are travelling.

It's worth knowing that car breakdown recovery is a type of travel insurance, where hopefully you never need to claim, but, if the motor conks out miles from anywhere, you'll be glad you had your rescue available.

Another thing: How to avoid being robbed in a hotel room

Also, here's a news article by the data recovery company with some helpful info about Safeguarding your Data While on Vacation - The perils of the "working holiday" explained and covered in advance of the expedition!

This page is part of Zyra's Insurance feature, which is part of this much larger resource (full index). Other pages in the Insurance feature include car insurance , home insurance , health insurance , pet insurance , motorcycle insurance , life insurance, van insurance, and other kinds of insurance