Insurance for cruise

kag214

I am going on a cruise next Feb and decided to get annual insurance to include that and a couple of trips to Europe. I was astonished. £70+. Trips to Europe i hacve cover now for £20, is this amount normal for cruise?

Tescodealqueen

If you need medical evacuation from a cruise it can cost a fortune. Your quote seems very reasonable, Carribean cruise insurance for someone with pre existing medical conditions can cost thousands. Our sons two week cruise last year in the med was over £50 for a single trip with no medical conditions for example

DullGreyGuy

Medical costs on a ship are exceptionally high, it can often involve medivac which is expensive, depending on where you are it can involve more than 1 medivac where they take you to the nearest island hospital and then on again to a major mainland hospital. 

The largest travel claim I've seen was almost £2m from someone who had a stroke on a cruise ship in the Caribbean, first airlifted to a tropical island and then a second time to the US. The claim would probably have been much higher but the passenger died after a month or so in the US hospital. 

Nearlyold

On our last cruise there were three medical evacuations by helicopter, they weren't short hops to the shore either.  Goodness knows what they cost.