2 nights Paris by Eurostar - is insurance necessary?

lolly5648

bryanb wrote: »

I read they are only charging outside the EU. Do you know different?

No I don't but with the way things are going.......?

zappahey

richardw wrote: »

So you can afford an air ambulance then, how much have you budgeted for one?

Why would I want an air ambulance? I'm sure going by road would be much cheaper.

colmil

Not harsh at all, why do you bother with an annual policy?

Double standards, I'm afraid.

With regard to £32 or so for cover, buy an annual policy, shop around, try www. direct-travel.co.uk, a year is a long time

richardw

zappahey wrote: »

Why would I want an air ambulance? I'm sure going by road would be much cheaper.

But there isn't a bridge from the holiday island where anybody could have an accident resulting in spinal injuries. Not bothering with Travel Insurance isn't money saving.

lolly5648

colmil wrote: »

With regard to £32 or so for cover, buy an annual policy, shop around, try www. direct-travel.co.uk, a year is a long time

As I said earlier I have some health problems and an anual policy cost £245 last year and I really shopped around for quotes. It runs out the day before we go to Paris!

freeasabird

I have existing health problems and I got a year's world wide policy with www.direct-travel.co.uk. It cost me less than £60.00 for the whole year. EVen if it's £100 dearer, that's better than £245.00. I like the peace of mind of having an annual policy because it's one less thing that you have to organise and for me it works out cheaper than single policies. Also if you build up a track record of not claiming, you can pay less. I think that's partly the reason why my policy was cheaper. I hope you manage to sort this out.

omelette451

richardw wrote: »

So you can afford an air ambulance then, how much have you budgeted for one?

Surely if an air ambulance is required to take you to hospital it's as free as a normal ambulance? The air ambulance in the UK doesn't charge EHIC 'customers' any more than it does UK nationals.

I think what you're referring to though is actually a 'repatriation flight' to bring you back to the UK so you can receive treatment here rather than in the other country, which is only covered by insurance. Personally I would be quite happy to stay abroad receiving treatment until I was well enough to return home myself so my 'budget', if you will, would be zero.

dacouch

But your treatment abroad may not be free eg you would have to pay for it, the EHIC does not neccessary cover anything but A&E treatment depending which county it is. So there is a chance once you are out of A&E you would have to start paying

Parisien

I use these people......annual EU wide, family insurance for £46


http://www.direct-travel.co.uk/

omelette451

dacouch wrote: »

But your treatment abroad may not be free eg you would have to pay for it, the EHIC does not neccessary cover anything but A&E treatment depending which county it is. So there is a chance once you are out of A&E you would have to start paying

...in which case I'd get on a train/in a car/walk to a hospital here.