is travel insurance compulsory with thomson

hel8itch

Could someone tell me if it is compulsory to have travel insurance when flying with Thomson. I know insurance is important but is it compulsory? Could they stop you flying ?

paulwellerfan

simple answer is NO.
they will ask you to buy it from them but you dont have to and you can get it from any where.
i have done this loads of times.

London50

Hi

As per the T&C on the website; nsurance:
Please Note: Adequate and valid travel insurance iscompulsory for all ourtravellers and it is a condition of accepting
your booking that you agree you will have obtained adequate and valid travel insurance for your booking by the date
of departure

so while the answer to your question is yes you do, you do not need to take out the one offered by them. You can choose your own but remember that IF anything was to happen while you are away the cost to get you or your's back would run into 1000's.
I hope that anyone going away would not risk travelling without it just to save a few pounds

London50

stephb34

paulwellerfan wrote: »

simple answer is NO.
they will ask you to buy it from them but you dont have to and you can get it from any where.
i have done this loads of times.

As above you don't have to buy Thomsons insurance but you do need someones insurance because if Thomson airline do a spot check at check in and ask for your insurance their airline can refuse to fly you. For example, you are taken ill mid flight and the plane has to divert to the nearest airport and you have no insurance who's paying for all the costs involved with that.

SaLoGo

Travel insurance should be made compulsory! Just watching the horror stories on the news of people ending up in coma's or worse while they're abroad and their poor families having to appeal to the public to raise the funds needed for their treatment is enough to make me want to take it out.

It's a very small cost compared to the overall cost of a holiday, pretty sure my last policy cost me £10. I can't understand how anyone would risk going abroad uninsured for the sake of a tenner?!

stephb34

SaLoGo wrote: »

Travel insurance should be made compulsory! Just watching the horror stories on the news of people ending up in coma's or worse while they're abroad and their poor families having to appeal to the public to raise the funds needed for their treatment is enough to make me want to take it out.

It's a very small cost compared to the overall cost of a holiday, pretty sure my last policy cost me £10. I can't understand how anyone would risk going abroad uninsured for the sake of a tenner?!

Agree entirely if you can afford hundreds or thousands to go on holiday you can afford a small proportion of it for travel insurance. I'm fed up of reading about people begging for help in our local paper for donations because they or some relation is in need of help to get home and generally they are people with (some) money who just thought it wouldn't happen to them.

mcfisco

SaLoGo wrote: »

Travel insurance should be made compulsory!

Disagree
Whilst I don't travel without insurance, I'd still strongly object to being forced to do so.
We still live in a relatively free world, I'm all for people being allowed to make stupid decisions.
Besides, some people would and are prepared to accept whatever treatment is available and don't particularly have any great need (should it arise) to be repatriated.

Insurance? - 100% yes, compulsion? - never

Voyager2002

mcfisco wrote: »

Disagree
Whilst I don't travel without insurance, I'd still strongly object to being forced to do so.
We still live in a relatively free world, I'm all for people being allowed to make stupid decisions.
Besides, some people would and are prepared to accept whatever treatment is available and don't particularly have any great need (should it arise) to be repatriated.

Insurance? - 100% yes, compulsion? - never

Yes.

For most of Europe, I am happy to rely on my EHIC but then am confident that I could cope with the system and make the top-up payments required. Others are not and so for many people travel insurance in Europe makes sense, but I would object to being forced to get insurance when I don't feel that it is necessary.

photome

SaLoGo wrote: »

Travel insurance should be made compulsory! Just watching the horror stories on the news of people ending up in coma's or worse while they're abroad and their poor families having to appeal to the public to raise the funds needed for their treatment is enough to make me want to take it out.

It's a very small cost compared to the overall cost of a holiday, pretty sure my last policy cost me £10. I can't understand how anyone would risk going abroad uninsured for the sake of a tenner?!

Agree it small cost but can be many times more than £10, i suspect that was a week in europe.

Why should it be compulsory? I never travel without it but thats because I dont have thousands of pounds spare to cover an unforseen circumstance. If i did and there are many that do I may not bother

Its a free country....just

claire16c

Voyager2002 wrote: »

Yes.

For most of Europe, I am happy to rely on my EHIC but then am confident that I could cope with the system and make the top-up payments required. Others are not and so for many people travel insurance in Europe makes sense, but I would object to being forced to get insurance when I don't feel that it is necessary.

If you die though the EHIC won't cover the cost to fly you home.

mcfisco

claire16c wrote: »

If you die though the EHIC won't cover the cost to fly you home.

I don't think I'd care too much