Travel Insurance including a Helicopter Tour?

Saver-Rob

Hi all,

Planning a trip abroad later in the year and hoping to go for a helicopter tour when there. I have been looking for some kind of travel insurance that covers us for the tour (i.e accident or worst case death & repatriation etc) but most policies make no mention of helicopter travel being covered and the only one I have found where it is specifically mentioned it says that we are NOT covered.

Does anybody know of any companies that provide travel insurance with this included?

Thanks all!

elsien

I wouldn't imagine it'd be that hard to find - think of all the people getting married in Vegas who do helicopter flights.
I'd try direct travel - found them reasonably priced and helpful on the phone for general queries.

markwilkinson

Can't be too hard surely? Lots of people that visit Niagra Falls take a helicopter trip. We have 'free' worldwide travel insurance through our bank accounts. A few years ago we took our last ski holiday. I had a sudden thought that the insurances might not cover us for winter sports, so I phoned them up. Winter sports not included but they upgraded us for free.

If they can upgrade a holiday drunkard hurtling down an Alpine mountain on a snowboard for nothing, helicopter trip insurance should be easy?

As an aside, I said our last ski trip. We used to have 2 holidays a year, one ski/snowboard trip, one beach in the summer. On the last winter trip I said to my wife, half way through, that I just wasn't enjoying it any more. These days, I'd rather spend the money going somewhere warm, yes, I'm getting old.

Bob_the_Saver

Saver-Rob wrote: »

Hi all,

Planning a trip abroad later in the year and hoping to go for a helicopter tour when there. I have been looking for some kind of travel insurance that covers us for the tour (i.e accident or worst case death & repatriation etc) but most policies make no mention of helicopter travel being covered and the only one I have found where it is specifically mentioned it says that we are NOT covered.

Does anybody know of any companies that provide travel insurance with this included?

Thanks all!

Wouldn't worry helicopters don't crash very often.
(just once usually)

peachyprice

Have you ckecked to see whether you'd be covered by the helicopter company's public liability insurance?

If they don't have any, run a mile!

Bob_the_Saver

peachyprice wrote: »

Have you ckecked to see whether you'd be covered by the helicopter company's public liability insurance?

If they don't have any, run a mile!

Wouldn't that only cover you if the helicopter company were at fault in your demise, rather than say the helicopter was hit by
something else causing it to plummet like a stone with occupants
spending a seemingly long agonising wait for it to hit the ground and kill them all in a painful, spectacular and ever so messy way.

Teahfc

Been on heli in Vegas twice blue ridge mountains once and Cape town and never even give it a second thought, good chance you would die in a heli crash so repatriate after you have been cremated, much cheaper

Bob_the_Saver

Teahfc wrote: »

Been on heli in Vegas twice blue ridge mountains once and Cape town and never even give it a second thought, good chance you would die in a heli crash so repatriate after you have been cremated, much cheaper

Yes or they could just put the bits they found in a jiffy bag.

peachyprice

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

Wouldn't that only cover you if the helicopter company were at fault in your demise, rather than say the helicopter was hit by
something else causing it to plummet like a stone with occupants
spending a seemingly long agonising wait for it to hit the ground and kill them all in a painful, spectacular and ever so messy way.

Would it matter if you were dead anyway?

Bob_the_Saver

peachyprice wrote: »

Would it matter if you were dead anyway?

No/...............................

Red_dog_Sam

I checked this out prior to a helicopter trip on holiday in US.
Found that our Flexicover (Gold) annual policy covered it - there was a mention in T&Cs about pleasure flights but just that cover only applied to flights taken with a properly registered flight operator. (In true MSE style - their policies can be bought online with discount codes usually easy to find + quidco cashback). Chck T&Cs before you buy to make sure still the same.