Drinking Holiday Insurance

zagfles

callum9999 wrote: »

You've gone on about it much more than they mentioned dental work, yet they're supposedly obsessed over it. And I genuinely cannot believe how a functioning adult still cannot grasp such a mind numbingly simple analogy!

She grasps it alright

zagfles

Moto2 wrote: »

The worst holiday decision I ever made was to take my two teenage daughters to Turkey, when walking out or sitting outside at a restaurant, it was a constant fight to keep the !!!!!philes away from them.
We ended up staying in the complex and even that wasn't totally safe.

We found the Turks a mix of extremes, we went before we had kids and just wheeling the trolley out of the airport arrivals, a couple of hairy arms just took the trolley off us and started wheeling it! He wanted a tip for wheeling a trolley a few yards to the bus - I gave him 10p (didn't have any Turkish Lira yet), he wasn't best pleased :rotfl:

Then going round a market having bought a bag of apples, we started getting hassled to buy some tat and when we made clear we weren't interested, one of they guys put their hand in out bag and took an apple and started eating it!

But then in the restaurants and bars we met some incredibly friendly people, it really was like making new friends every time you you went out, they taught us a few useful phrases in the language (such as leave my apples alone!), one restaurant owner who used to run a kebab shop in the UK gave us some really useful advice and ended up buying us drinks for the rest of the evening, and taking us to some non-touristy beaches in the area over the next few days, no agenda, no attempt to get us to buy stuff or take us to his brother-in-law's shop etc as we were expecting, just a really friendly guy who we kept in contact for a good while after the holiday.

Moto2

We did meet some very friendly and helpful people - most of them really

But - with hindsight - taking blue eyed, blonde young girls was a big mistake.
It's difficult to articulate what was going on and the vile abuse that followed without risking the censor, I'm not sure I want to re-live it anyway

zagfles

Moto2 wrote: »

We did meet some very friendly and helpful people - most of them really

But - with hindsight - taking blue eyed, blonde young girls was a big mistake.
It's difficult to articulate what was going on and the vile abuse that followed without risking the censor, I'm not sure I want to re-live it anyway

Must have been very unpleasant.

On a lighter note, I've just noticed your signature and rewatched the clip it refers to - brilliant :rotfl:(and I bet them Romans never had travel insurance nor dental insurance!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8

Moto2

zagfles wrote: »

On a lighter note, I've just noticed your signature and rewatched the clip it refers to - brilliant :rotfl:(and I bet them Romans never had travel insurance nor dental insurance!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8

A truly brilliant piece of comic acting

zagfles

Moto2 wrote: »

A truly brilliant piece of comic acting

One of the best films ever. I was at university at the time and the p*sstake of all the different revolutionary groups all with the exact same aim yet who hated each other, and were all talk and no action, was just like student politics with the socialist workers, militants, revolutionary communists etc!

Someone in our flat went to see it with a socialist worker mate of his. His mate walked out during the "what have the Romans ever done for us" part :rotfl:

People remember it for the religious controversy it caused but "loony lefties" were equally offended by it!

duchy

Deleted_User wrote: »

Just out of interest and nothing more - in how many of these cases did the insurance company involved try every trick in the book to wriggle out of their responsibilities ?

And apart from alcohol what are the other main contributory factors which tend to invalidate the standard travel insurance policies that most tourists take out ?

Absolutely no idea. All that stuff was done before it hit my desk however I certainly saw some cases that were borderline. The company however was very well known and reputable so I suspect they were less likely to weasle.

The one they covered that completely amazed me was the seventeen year old pregnant with twins flying to Benidorm in August -she lied to the airline about how pregnant she was (just over eight months -had they known they'd have refused her carriage) and went into labour almost as soon as she landed (altitude changes will do that). We flew 2 nurses and an incubator out and Mum and the twins back. The nurses all wanted that job - far nicer than the more common middle aged MI escort job.

At eight months with twins there was no way she wasn't travelling against medical advice - which would (should) have invalidated the policy. Quite why anyone that pregnant - let alone with twins wanted to go somewhere that hot anyway (in August) was a question that was never answered !

blindman

zagfles wrote: »

One of the best films ever.

Seconded.

Will never been bettered IMHO:D

ttoli

Has anyone told the OP that the EHIC card is NOT valid in Turkey ?

duchy

Yes they already knew- that is why they were asking about insurance (as they don't bother within the EC anyway)