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Travel insurance - question about missed connections
jd87
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Me and OH are travelling to Greece in July. Our plan was to fly to Athens, spend a night there to see some sights, etc, and then catch a ferry to the islands the next day. We have booked all of this and bought our travel insurance already. Today I got an email from the ferry company saying they have changed their schedules and the ferry we booked has been cancelled.
This means we now need to change our plans and with the other ferry options available it's not really worth us spending a night in Athens. We'd hardly have any time to see anything and would just be rushing around. Instead it's probably better for us to go straight from the airport to the ferry.
The problem is this leads to the risk that the flight might be delayed and we might miss the ferry. There wouldn't be another sailing until the next day. If this were to happen, would I be covered by my travel insurance for the expenses incurred? We'd probably have to buy new ferry tickets, pay for a night in a port/airport hotel, and we'd probably lose the first night in the hotel already booked.
If I am in theory covered for this, does it matter that this ferry booking will have been made after I already bought the insurance?
This means we now need to change our plans and with the other ferry options available it's not really worth us spending a night in Athens. We'd hardly have any time to see anything and would just be rushing around. Instead it's probably better for us to go straight from the airport to the ferry.
The problem is this leads to the risk that the flight might be delayed and we might miss the ferry. There wouldn't be another sailing until the next day. If this were to happen, would I be covered by my travel insurance for the expenses incurred? We'd probably have to buy new ferry tickets, pay for a night in a port/airport hotel, and we'd probably lose the first night in the hotel already booked.
If I am in theory covered for this, does it matter that this ferry booking will have been made after I already bought the insurance?
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