Any travel insurance with missed connections cover?

martindow

shedlord wrote: »

A good example: We live oop North and are off to Disneyland Paris soon. To get to the station in London on time for the Eurostar we are reliant on trains into London not being delayed for very long.

For this you need to be sure that your domestic tickets are to London International and not just an ordinary ticket to St Pancras. CIV regulations then cover you for missed connections and Eurostar will put you on the next available train. These tickets are usually cheaper than normal tickets especially at peak times.

For all things international rail related seat61 is full of good advice

http://www.seat61.com/UKconnections.htm#London%20International%20CIV

Incapuppy

shedlord wrote: »

A good example: We live oop North and are off to Disneyland Paris soon. To get to the station in London on time for the Eurostar we are reliant on trains into London not being delayed for very long.

Surely you are reliant on using enough common sense to ensure that you allow plenty of time for your journey to allow for possibilities such as your train to London being delayed?

shedlord

Incapuppy wrote: »

Surely you are reliant on using enough common sense to ensure that you allow plenty of time for your journey to allow for possibilities such as your train to London being delayed?

Yes, but depending on how far you are travelling to get there you don't have that much wriggle room. We are driving down to the midlands and staying with family the night before. The train in the morning from Tamworth departs 6.47am and is meant to arrive at at Euston 7.57. We then plan on jumping into a taxi to St Pancras, which is not far away. The Eurostar leaves at 9.44. They recommend getting there an hour before departure but don't say how early you *have* to be.

Is that a common sense plan? I haven't travelled to London for quite a few years so genuinely don't know.

Would be good to know we were covered for extra ticket costs if there was a major train problem before Euston. Our ticket is an ordinary one to Euston, not to London International.

dzug1

With Eurostar it's about half an hour - though they are not over strict to the minute on it. They can also be moderately flexible about letting you on a later train if needed and there's room.

Depending on luggage you could walk to St Pancras - 10 minutes.

alanrowell

shedlord wrote: »

A good example: We live oop North and are off to Disneyland Paris soon. To get to the station in London on time for the Eurostar we are reliant on trains into London not being delayed for very long.

You can now book tickets from oop North to Disneyland Paris on the UK version of the Eurostar website - so you don't have to worry abour missing the onward train due to delays. Works just the same way as other UK train tickets with changes or connecting flights

steve.wri

Fascinated by the correspondence on this topic and I have an extension to the issue. I'm travelling from Birmingham to Poprad, Slovakia and back by train in July/August. This involves Eurostar with Virgin Trains add-on to Brussels, Deutsche Bahn to Cologne, Euronight to Prague, Czech Rail to Poprad. Return is via Bratislava and Vienna, then overnight back to Cologne. All are advance bookings direct with rail companies - so fixed to one train each leg.

Connections are all pretty generous but any one bad failure (train breakdown, say) that misses the planned connection breaks the chain and means an overnight stay somewhere and then probably re-booking the rest at full prices. Anyone know of any insurance that covers this risk?

martindow

steve.wri wrote: »

Fascinated by the correspondence on this topic and I have an extension to the issue. I'm travelling from Birmingham to Poprad, Slovakia and back by train in July/August. This involves Eurostar with Virgin Trains add-on to Brussels, Deutsche Bahn to Cologne, Euronight to Prague, Czech Rail to Poprad. Return is via Bratislava and Vienna, then overnight back to Cologne. All are advance bookings direct with rail companies - so fixed to one train each leg.

Connections are all pretty generous but any one bad failure (train breakdown, say) that misses the planned connection breaks the chain and means an overnight stay somewhere and then probably re-booking the rest at full prices. Anyone know of any insurance that covers this risk?

Have you looked at seat 61? It is the fount of knowledge of all things to do with international rail travel.

http://www.seat61.com/

CIV regulations seem to require all European railways to sort out problems caused by their delays

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIV_%28rail_travel%29