Travel insurance for a year (Europe)

fatboyonadiet

A friend is going to be studying in Denmark for about a year, where's the cheapest place for them to get insurance so they're covered if anything happens. TIA>

alared

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

fatboyonadiet

£160 for a year for a student at the standard level - seems a bit much to me, any other suggestions?

sloppychops

Try

https://www.insureandgo.com

fatboyonadiet

Economy costs £123 but Silver annual (which looks like a much better level all round) only costs £39?!?!

sloppychops

fatboyonadiet wrote:

Economy costs £123 but Silver annual (which looks like a much better level all round) only costs £39?!?!

is that from the insureandgo website?

If it is i have just checked and i get annual bronze at £29.84
or
annual silver at £39

dixie_dean_2

An annual policy will be a multi trip policy designed for lots of short trips but will have a maximum stay on any one of (usually) 30,60 or 90 days. As for a year long cover, any insurance will become invalid if the person returns to the UK for more than 24 hours. Some companies, STA for example, do offer a study abroad insurance that permits 3 returns home to the UK, however, buying 3 separate policies from other places may work out cheaper.

fatboyonadiet

sloppychops wrote:

is that from the insureandgo website?

If it is i have just checked and i get annual bronze at £29.84
or
annual silver at £39

It was, but the annual bronze didn't seem to come up, I'll give it a go later and probably book it. Cheers.

sloppychops

dixie_dean wrote:

An annual policy will be a multi trip policy designed for lots of short trips but will have a maximum stay on any one of (usually) 30,60 or 90 days. As for a year long cover, any insurance will become invalid if the person returns to the UK for more than 24 hours. Some companies, STA for example, do offer a study abroad insurance that permits 3 returns home to the UK, however, buying 3 separate policies from other places may work out cheaper.

Yep your right ,god know where my head was when i was looking at ordinary annual policies.

fatboyonadiet

Looks like Endsleigh also do this - but they're asking £230 for a year!