travel insurance

Hi AFF Members Can anyone recommend a real good comprehensive travel insurance policy that covers these items please? Evacuation insurance, Medical expenses, Loss of luggage, Cruise and land content, Airfare cancellation charges, Travel within your home state, including, local taxes and...

I'm planning to travel interstate (to NSW) for the first time in a long while. Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for domestic travel insurance that would cover the costs of additional accommodation due to the need to isolate based on the local rules (e.g. if we test positive)? EDIT...

I am currently in Bangkok enroute to India . My original flight was a qantas classic award BKK - KUL -BOM .(MAS) My MAS departure flight from BKK was changed to later one requiring me to cancel and rebook my onward Indian domestic flight as I would arrive at a later time in BOM . This entire...

Received an email this morning from Amex about the travel insurance on my QF Ultimate card. For the most part, it seems like an improvement and clarifies what is and isn't covered for Covid related stuff. See American Express Insurance | AMEX Australia for details of the changes.

We have recently booked a Luxury Escapes package for Fiji in early 2022. Looking at the official fiji.travel government website there is a clear requirement for all international travellers coming in to have "medical travel insurance, with international coverage that covers COVID-19 before...

Hi All, What's everyone do or recommend for domestic travel insurance? Is it worth it? I've read a lot of mixed feelings about it. I have a 2 week holiday coming up in the New Year domestically and was wondering whether it would be worth getting. I'm looking at it more so to cover all the...

Hi, has anyone used or needed to use the travel insurance cover that comes automatically with westpac altitude platinum credit card? what policy number would you quote if you need to use it? Cheers

If you end up in hospital due to Covid-19 internationally. Is it blanket no coverage? or dependent on vaccination status? Are children covered ? As much info as possible would be great. Thinking about future travel destinations.

Hi, I'm (very) cautiously hoping that international travel will start again next year. But there is one key thing I haven't seen mentioned in the talk about vaccination rates, international borders, quarantine options etc. That is will there be travel insurance available that covers...

As usual you have to be aware of all of the exclusions from any policy. After some bad publicity American Express said "it would reach out to the family to offer some "financial support" but declined to elaborate on the details."...

Does anyone know of any Company offering international medical and repatriation insurance at the moment? I still have a contract to work in Tokyo for the Olympics but the Organising C'tee/IOC require insurance coverage. I cannot find any organisation offering insurance due to the closed border...

Like many people here I'm used to having an active/rolling Annual Multi-Trip policy that covers me globally. What are people doing now for new trips from AU to NZ with the bubble open? I'm actually not worried so much about cover for COVID border-related cancellations. I knew the risks of...

There is an article today about ASIC's case against Allianz and its underwriter. I guess tis would back up a lot of suspicions people have about the travel insurance industry. Allianz charged over insurance advertising

we are booked on a tour in July to Darwin and top end and would like to know the best travel insurance to take out

Be interested if anyone has had any luck at all claiming cancelled international flights and flight replacement costs from their travel insurance? (Flights purchased with Citibank credit card.) Thoughts please 🤔☹️

Hello, I received an exemption from the Australian government travel ban for essential work travel to Europe next month (November 2020). Is anyone aware of companies currently selling travel insurance to Australian travellers? I don't expect COVID cover, but there are of course other issues to...

Which of the QANTAS credit cards offers free travel insurance? Paid for an annual policy last year and it has proved useless. Any recommendations? Friends previously satisfied with NAB.

First of all this is not COVID related. I read through all the threads and couldn't really find someone with a similar experience so interested to know if any one has experience with type of situation. It relates to a flight I had cancelled, booked with rewards points, due to Typhoon Hagibis in...

I've just been onto a few websites looking to get annual domestic travel just to cover things like hire car excess and if I lose anything and can't seem to find anyone offering it. Does anyone have any experience of getting this and any suggestions on brokers or similar who might be able to...

I got an email from Columbus direct today since I have a multi trip with them. “Given the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic and its unprecedented impact across the world, we have made the difficult decision to suspend sales of our travel insurance products indefinitely.” “We are writing as we note...