Cost of getting home if ill on holiday with no travel insurance

lilac_lady

Your MIL won't be the only penny wise/pound foolish tourist. If she thinks the excess on her insurance is too dear then she shouldn't go abroad.

Saint_Chris

hammy_the_hammer wrote: »

i've just wasted 45 seconds of my life reading this

me to

will people never learn

Voyager2002

Another thought: what is the sense of paying a premium for an invalid insurance policy? If she is absolutely sure that nothing will go wrong then she might travel without insurance, and would be in exactly the same position as if she had an insurance policy that she had knowingly invalidated through her own behaviour.

jonesMUFCforever

MIL is probably saving the £50 to buy fags!!

poe.tuesday

I was watching airport yesterday and they had a man on there who had been in a skiing accident, he had to have a major op on his leg, his insurance company flew out a nurse to check that he was fit to fly and to get him home, he flew home with swiss air taking up 8 seats, there were private ambulance transfers to and from the airports etc

they said that the cost for this would have been in excess of £15000

it's a no brainer really

buyitall

My mum was taken ill on hol last year, was in hospital for 2 weeks in Majorca and had to be flown home by air ambulance with a doctor and nurse from the UK accompanying. The air ambulance cost approx £18,000, plus medical care, hospital stay, ambulances in Spain and UK. The insurance company (AXA, via Thomsons travel company) were VERY thorough about checking for pre-existing conditions before they would authorise anything, if they could have wriggled out of paying they would have. I would be sure to declare absolutely everything in future, based on my mum's experience.

alared

Why are we all wasting our time answering what seems on the face of it a "wind-up",silly question.

alanrowell

alared wrote: »

Why are we all wasting our time answering what seems on the face of it a "wind-up",silly question.

Because there are people who are stupid enough to do what the OP's MiL is suggesting

alared

The OP doesn`t seem to worried as they haven`t got back on here.

Incapuppy

Does anyone thinnk it's 'Welshfella' with a different hat on? ;0)