[Default] On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:51:12 +0100, Hiram
offered the following words of wisdom:

wrote:


Maybe things are different in the UK (if that's where you're
travelling from). But in New Zealand, we get our travel insurance
through our health insurance provider,

That would be nice if I could - but we have a state health system, so
the private health system is really small. I don't have health
insurance unless I travel outside the UK.

Like yours the NZ state health system doesn't cover travel insurance
outside NZ. But considering that my wife's aunt died alone on a gurney
in a corridor of a public hospital in the UK after being forgotten -
literally - by the idiots who work in that system, I'd sure as hell
have private health insurance if I lived in the UK.

BTW - NZ's public health system isn't all that flash either. Which is
why we've had private health insurance since 1978.

Also, some credit cards like MasterCard or charge cards like AMEX
offer free travel insurance if you pay for your flights with their
card.

Yeah this has crossed my mind

Don't know about the RAC or the other driver's organisations in the
UK, but our AA also offers competitive travel insurance packages.

My advice: look in your Yellow Pages and ring around the insurance
companies.

Yep, could do that, but I was kinda hoping to use the Internet.

Have you tried google? Here's the list that came up the first time I
tried:

http://www.google.com/search?q=trave...n___NZ308&aq=t