Endsleigh on line Travel Insurance

Advantages: Cheaper on line Insurance no middleman
Disadvantages: None

...I search the Internet a few weeks ago for on line travel insurance because I was on a business trip to Europe... I looked at at least half a dozen companies but www.endsleigh.co.uk came up trumps with comprehensive cover in Europe for 6 days at around £16...not bad at all considering all their ' extras' a policy worth paying for.. two weeks ago upon my return fromEurope I booked a flight to Florida with BA and decided to give Endsleigh an other chance for a quote..for 18 Days insurance Worldwide on a fully Comprehensive basis the price was £45 excllent really, considering the inferior insurance offered by some travel comapnies at nearly twice the price....it really does pay to shop around... I realise that I could have paid for an annual policy but I preferred to go for this one off World Wide Policy... I have no idea what...

Dalesman 14.07.2001 · Read review
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Review of Endsleigh - Travel Insurance

Avoid Direct Travel Insurance

Advantages: V. Cheap
Disadvantages: You get what you pay for

...Direct Travel Insurance - Avoid! My wife, Jill, was diagnosed with breast cancer on August 29, 2008. We had our holiday booked for September 8 so I asked Direct Travel Insurance for a claim form. The form arrived from AIG around September 3. AIG are the company Direct Travel Use to process their claims. It had four pages of A4. Three to be filled in by me and one by Jill's doctor. OK so far. After lot's of ink and £25 for the doctor, I returned the forms a couple of days later. The form signed by the doctor stated that Jill had a hospital appointment for the day we were due to fly. Despite this, AIG continued to turn awful into horror. After about three weeks a letter arrived from AIG asking for the tickets. They knew we were flying with JET2.com, which is a ticketless airline but AIG appeared to have forgotten. I reminded...

Shornoff 29.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Direct Travel Insurance

Great value travel insurance

Advantages: Very competitive price, underwritten by Axa
Disadvantages: I haven't found any

...Travel insurance is one of those things to which most of us give little or any thought. A former colleague flew to America without travel insurance and contracted gastro-enteritis. He didn't seek medical assistance because it is so expensive in America and it really spoiled his holiday. Compared to some he was lucky. A heart attack in the USA could set you back tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in treatment costs. If you're too young to think about heart attacks, how about a car accident? If you go on a package they'll insist you have insurance and you can just take their standard package. This is adequate for most people, but it's not a cheap option. I'm taking a self drive trip to Germany for 5 days shortly and the package operators standard package was over £50. By selecting the right levels of cover with Direct-Travel...

tsr2 19.07.2003 (17.01.2004) · Read review
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Review of Direct Travel Insurance

One Time in One Stop is enough for life

Advantages: Easily accessible, all the basic shops.
Disadvantages: All the same old shops, boring.

...Next week I move to the other side of town, where my nearest shopping area (apart from corner shops and take aways) will be the One Stop shopping centre in Perry Barr. This is in North Birmingham, about 3 miles away from the city centre and easily accessible on buses including the 11 and 51. There?s a huge row of bus stops in front of the shopping centre, which have lots of rubbish and are not the nicest place to hang around. Most of the shopping centre is in an inside mall on one level, but there are also some larger stores outside, surrounding the car park. Access is easy, with lots of free parking spaces, no stairs and a sloped travelator upon going through the main entrance. The malls are wide, although there are a number of stalls in the middle making it a bit crowded at busy times. The stalls offer hair weaving, manicures...

MissDirect 24.08.2002 · Read review
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Review of Perry Barr One Stop (Birmingham)

Travel Insurance- Don't leave home without some!

Advantages: Good Value, Quick and Professional
Disadvantages: None that I could find!

...According to recent survey done by a reputable bank ... * one in three people suffer some kind of problem whilst on holiday * eight per cent had lost their luggage * six per cent had to cancel or cut short their holiday due to unforeseen circumstances * a number of people had personal items or their money stolen * eighteen per cent of people suffered a holiday disaster but could not claim because they had no insurance So, knowing these statistics combined with the fact that my husband and I go on 4+ holidays a year, I decided to embark on finding us the best travel insurance we could at a reasonable rate. But, what should I look for? The Consumers? Association recommends that you should have: * at least £1m of medical cover in Europe * at least £2m in the States and the rest of the world * at least £1...

ukusa 31.03.2005 · Read review
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Review of Direct Travel Insurance

Essential Travel holiday insurance - don't buy

Advantages: They make it easy to buy Essential Travel insurance.
Disadvantages: They make it so difficult to claim that your insurance is as good as worthless.

...Essential Travel initially look good, its a competitive price and they make it very easy to puchase this on-line, however when you come to claim they make it so difficult that your insurance policy is practically worth less. First tactic - (if you ring up first) they tell you that you are not covered by the insurance policy you took out with them and will be unable to claim. This puts most people off - but for those that persevere and read the lengthy policy document properly, find that they can in fact claim. Second tactic, when you do put in a claim they keep demanding more and more documentation before they will pay up. Receipts are not enough, you then need letters from the companies as well. They keep requesting more and more difficult to aquire documentation until you just give up or come up against a brick wall. I...

RJane 01.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Essential Travel Insurance

ESSENTIAL TRAVEL INSURANCE

Advantages: NO INCREASED PREMIUM FOR PRE-EXISTING MEDICAL CONDITIONS
Disadvantages: NONE

...I trawled the internet for this insurance and it is so good I had to recommend it. Both my husband and myself have pre-exisiting medical conditions and it was becoming a nightmare to find an insurance company that didnt highly inflate the premiums because of these. This company did not charge any extra premium for our conditions, all we had to do was phone a medical screening telephone number and go through a few questions, e.g. What medication you take and how your condition is managed, they then give you a reference to use when you are booking the insurance (which can all be done online) and job finished. We managed to get an annual standard multi-trip worldwide family policy for myself (44) my husband (47) and two kids 15 and 17 for just £73.21. This covered our medical conditions too and up to 21 days holiday at one time...

SBROWN487 25.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of Essential Travel Insurance

BEWARE OF NAT WEST VISA GOLD TRAVEL INSURANCE

Advantages: Given as a complimentary bonus for Gold Card holders
Disadvantages: New exemption clauses have recently been inserted regarding pre-existing conditions.

...BEWARE OF NAT WEST VISA GOLD TRAVEL INSURANCE. I have had the misfortune of trying to claim for cancellation of my holiday in August 08 due to the sudden death of my father who was fit and playing table tennis in a league match when he died. The trauma has been made worse by the company which deals with the NATWEST travel insurance - IGCS: Inter Group Claims Services. They have tried every avenue to find a way not to pay out and made things extremely difficult by demanding letters from my father's GP to give details of his medical condition. To cut long story short, they have turned down my claim since they state that he was in hospital within the last 12 months (in fact he was in hospital in June 07, 14 months before he died but they are saying from when we booked the hol. which was January 08). This clause 13 exemption was written...

Trarcher 25.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Natwest Bank - Travel insurance

One stop remedy

Advantages: Helps with spots and other skin ailments, lasts for ages
Disadvantages: Expensive

...for reading. One last thing...enjoy yourself and dont make the internet your life...go out and have fun!...

beccie 25.10.2005 (09.04.2008) · Read review
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Review of Bio-Oil Face Cream

Stop travel sickness fast

Advantages: they work well, cheap
Disadvantages: some people may have side effects

...Travel sickness is one of those strange things with me. I don't get it all the time - for example I have never been travel sick on a boat or plane - even in a car, but every now and then I'll get motion sickness when travelling by bus. I used to do the same one hour journey every two weeks for about 2 years, and although for the first year or so I was fine, I suddenly started feeling really sick after about 45 minutes on the bus. I found that sitting with my head down cured it, and never actually took any medication for it. That was a good few years ago, and I hadn't experienced any sickness since then, but I recently went to Edinburgh on the megabus, and spent the whole way there trying not to throw up. It was a 3 hour journey and I had never felt that bad before ever, so bearing in mind, that I was coming back on the same bus...

pink_champagne 18.05.2006 · Read review
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