Over 65s Travel Insurance Guide Discussion

john_holmes

Single trip insurance has limited days coverage, how can can pre-holiday accidents & other events be covered due to this

EssexExile

You tell the insurer when you're going on holiday & pay them the money. If anything stops you going on those dates, & it's an insured occurrence like accident or illness, they refund your money.

sheramber

The limited days is only for the trip. You are covered for needing to cancel from the date you take it out.

Dewpoint

Holidaysafe Lite fell at the first hurdle for me. It refused to quote for a 180 day trip to Spain (65+) and would only consider insuring a trip up to 120 days at an extortionate premium (£188+).
Holiday insurance is a rip-off.

gilesfitzh

I have just renewed our annual multi trip cover with Alpha travel insurance. Their quote was £31.91 for a couple aged 65 and 63 for Europe incl. Spain upto 31 days

nickyhatherell

I'm new to this so forgive me if I am posting in the wrong place or asking a question that may have been asked before but.....

My 78 year old mother has recently had had a TIA (mini stroke) but is now fine. She wants to carry on as usual and visit her apartment in Spain. However because of this recent event travel insurance will cost her a fortune, so we are asking ourselves does she really need it? She travels on a budget airline with only a small case as hand luggage.

As it's in Europe we understand any Healthcare would be free for her, she has her own place to stay indefinitely if necessary, no holiday bookings that could need cancelling, no luggage to cover.... are we missing something?

Thank you for any advice anyone can offer.

EssexExile

The only thing I can think of is repatriation, that can be very expensive if she needs to be brought home.

zunky

Similar question.
We travel by car to our French house. Our belongings are covered there by our French policy and we have RAC european breakdown cover. I think our domestic policy in UK also covers belongings when travelling.

anamenottaken

nickyhatherell wrote: »

I'm new to this so forgive me if I am posting in the wrong place or asking a question that may have been asked before but.....

My 78 year old mother has recently had had a TIA (mini stroke) but is now fine. She wants to carry on as usual and visit her apartment in Spain. However because of this recent event travel insurance will cost her a fortune, so we are asking ourselves does she really need it? She travels on a budget airline with only a small case as hand luggage.

As it's in Europe we understand any Healthcare would be free for her, she has her own place to stay indefinitely if necessary, no holiday bookings that could need cancelling, no luggage to cover.... are we missing something?

Thank you for any advice anyone can offer.

It may not be free. I believe she would pay what a national of the country would pay if there is a charge. Have a look at
http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/Healthcareabroad/countryguide/Pages/healthcareinSpain.aspx

nickyhatherell

Thank you for the responses, very helpful and seems to reinforce what we had been thinking