Renewing travel insurance for working holiday

pandora205

My daughter is currently on a working holiday in New Zealand and has a young person's working holiday Visa for 12 months, which she is applying to extend. I am planning to extend her insurance, which I purchased initially for 6 months (shortly to expire) via STA Travel.

How do I find a good deal for this? I paid around £200 for the 6 months and at present I'm going to extend for another 6 until it's sorted that she is staying for another year.

Thanks

anna42hmr

pandora205 wrote: »

My daughter is currently on a working holiday in New Zealand and has a young person's working holiday Visa for 12 months, which she is applying to extend. I am planning to extend her insurance, which I purchased initially for 6 months (shortly to expire) via STA Travel.

How do I find a good deal for this? I paid around £200 for the 6 months and at present I'm going to extend for another 6 until it's sorted that she is staying for another year.

Thanks

you may have to see if you can extend the existing one as a friend of mine found that it was difficult to arrange new insurance when the person was already out of the country. they ended up extending their existing policy as it was a lot easier in the end, not sure who it was with

pandora205

Thanks. I did email STA but they just gave me a link to purchasing new insurance, which didn't seem to make sense. I think I probably need to call them directly.

It was just thinking that £400 a year seems like quite a lot of money and that there may be more competitive providers.

moonrakerz

pandora205 wrote: »

£400 a year seems like quite a lot of money

Less than £8 a week, I would say that was very reasonable. You wouldn't complain about £16 for a 2 week holiday.

Cheapest is never the best anyway !

pandora205

Thanks that sets it in perspective. It doesn't sound quite so much put that way.