Travel insurance costs

danco

I'm aged 92 and, not surprisingly, have various medical conditions (high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, etc). Take lots of pills, have never needed hospital admission, can walk fine.

Insureandgo have quoted me £450 for a one week single trip to France, and £1700 for an annual policy for Europe.

I'm wondering if these are sensible prices or if I should look further. When I looked last year InsureandGo seemed good value. I think that single trip makes most sense, as I could take this trip and even another two weeks elsewhere for less than the annual cost.

Given my age and general health I'm not expecting low prices, but I have no diseases or injuries, just the sort of thing for which preventive medication is recommended.

Confusedlad

Shop around. Try Avanti amongst others. Seems steep to me.

danco

Thanks. I hadn't heard of Avanti, but they seem a good price if they are a decent firm. But they seem to have bad reviews from those who have attempted to claim from them.

Actually Saga are reasonably cheap and are a Which Best Buy.

I think the reason I looked particularly at Insureandgo is that they offer annual policies, but I think Saga only offers single-trip policies for people my age. But anyway it does look as though single-trip makes most sense for me, the days when annual policies were best are past now.

Ayr_Rage

I am 67 with paroxysmal afib and only taking two drugs.

I shopped around all of the companies mentioned so far and eventually bought my policy from SAGA.

They were by far the cheapest and an annual policy with 90 day trip extensions allowing a total of 180 days insured in a year was actually cheaper than their own single trip policy for the 88 day trip to Thailand I am currently enjoying.