Backpacker travel insurance mid trip

Hagopm

Hello All,

My girlfriend and I have been away from the UK for around 5 months now, travelling in South America. We recently decided to extend our trip by several months, requiring us to extend our insurance.

For this trip we bought 'insure & go backpacker light 1', the cheapest we could find, as all we want is medical cover. This costed £68.

On contacting the company to renew, we have been told the only way to renew is to upgrade to bronze cover, which has identical policy details, but costs £192 each. We have been told this is the only way we can renew with insure & go.

We feel this is an exorbitant premium and do not wish to support such exploitative tactics from an insurance company. We would prefer to buy a new policy from another company.

Does anyone know of any backpacker insurance policies that can be bought once the trip has commenced? It is a general condition that travel insurance must commence on the day of travel when the traveller is still in one's home area. We are currently in Colombia.

Thanks for reading!

Hagop

Wammer

Try World Nomads or Worldwide Insure, but neither are cheap