Nationwide Building Society

Advantages: Trusted household name
Disadvantages: Hard to get through

We've all been warned now not to accept automatically the offer of insurance from a travel agent when book a holiday, being advised instead to shop around. And that is absolutely the right thing to do. However, one insurer I won't be recommending you bother with is the Nationwide. This isn't because their premiums are high - they are pretty average I suspect - nor because the cover has lots of get-out clauses - the cover is probably pretty average ...
...- I fully expect that it's as good as anyone else's. So why am I not recommending them? Because they don't want your money. Or at least that's the impression they give. I admit that a freephone number is good news - it's been a long time since I last called a company on anything other than a freephone number if I had a choice. But even so, I am not sure that "being busy" is a good excuse for keeping you hanging on at the end of a phone line for ... Read review