UK insurance for travel to Oz and PNG

Any recommendations?

Looking for a year's worth of worldwide cover, individual trips
of less than 30 days, but primarily for the upcoming "expedition".

--
"I was nauseous and tingly all over.
I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Mary Pegg wrote in news:uMCDe.5144
:

Any recommendations?

Looking for a year's worth of worldwide cover, individual trips
of less than 30 days, but primarily for the upcoming "expedition".


I should imaging 12 months worth of travel insurance would be incredibly
expensive.

Australian has reciprocal health care arrangements with some european
countries (e.g.UK, Ireland). If you are a resident of one of these
countries you are eligible for subdisided emergency health care in
Australia. Depending on how long you plan to say in Australia, you might
find you don't need travel insurance the whole time

Check http://www.hic.gov.au/yourhealth/ser...llers/vtta.htm

You could them limit yourself to times when you are going to more
expensive/awkward places (PNG?)

Cheers

Les.

On 21 Jul 2005 10:32:39 +0800, Les Chandra
wrote:

Mary Pegg wrote in news:uMCDe.5144
:

Any recommendations?

Looking for a year's worth of worldwide cover, individual trips
of less than 30 days, but primarily for the upcoming "expedition".


I should imaging 12 months worth of travel insurance would be incredibly
expensive.

Not overly so - can't remember off the top of my head, and don't have
the paperwork to hand, but I paid something like AUD600 for two months
cover, up to a maximum of 30 days per trip. Anything over a 30 day
trip I have to purchase a new policy for the extra time.

Dave

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There are 10 types of people - those who understand binary, and those who don't.

In fact it's just $475 from Mondial for a 12 month policy, which covers you
(and wife/partner). It's WorldCare's Frequent Traveller Policy. I don't know
why people buy anything else.

https://www.worldcare.com.au/traveli...avel/tr20.aspx

Cover is limited to a maximum duration of 90 days per trip, multiple
journeys over 12 months. All limits are reset at the end of each trip.

Great Value - but not what the OP needs



"Dave Proctor" wrote in message
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On 21 Jul 2005 10:32:39 +0800, Les Chandra
wrote:

Mary Pegg wrote in news:uMCDe.5144
:

Any recommendations?

Looking for a year's worth of worldwide cover, individual trips
of less than 30 days, but primarily for the upcoming "expedition".


I should imaging 12 months worth of travel insurance would be incredibly
expensive.

Not overly so - can't remember off the top of my head, and don't have
the paperwork to hand, but I paid something like AUD600 for two months
cover, up to a maximum of 30 days per trip. Anything over a 30 day
trip I have to purchase a new policy for the extra time.

Dave

=====

There are 10 types of people - those who understand binary, and those who
don't.

Les Chandra wrote:
Mary Pegg wrote in news:uMCDe.5144
:

Any recommendations?

Looking for a year's worth of worldwide cover, individual trips
of less than 30 days, but primarily for the upcoming "expedition".

I should imaging 12 months worth of travel insurance would be incredibly
expensive.

As other posters also mentioned, I don't think it's expensive. For
example for us, from The Netherlands (a.k.a. as "Holland") it is just
(about) AUD$ 250 (EUR 150) for *two* people with a maiximum stay per
trip of 60 days (extendable to 180 days at 25% increase). And that
includes (possibly partial) cancellation- insurance.

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Mary Pegg wrote:
Any recommendations?

Looking for a year's worth of worldwide cover, individual trips
of less than 30 days, but primarily for the upcoming "expedition".


Are you just asking for Annual travel insurance?

We are with Churchill, who after looking up several insurers offered exactly
what we needed. eg individual trips of up to 60 days ( this was the most
important for us, most only offer around 45 days ) and cover for short break
UK trips as well as day trips to Europe. We pay £113.50 for the 2 of us.


Jan

We signed up for a Royal Bank of Scotland, Royalties Gold account when we
went to NZ and it gave us annual travel insurance for the whole travelling
party. It also got us 10% discount on the flights and hotels. I think they
charge £9 a month but it saved us money in the long term. But saying that, I
can't remember if there is restriction on the length of each trip.
WM
"Mary Pegg" wrote in message
...
Any recommendations?

Looking for a year's worth of worldwide cover, individual trips
of less than 30 days, but primarily for the upcoming "expedition".

--
"I was nauseous and tingly all over.
I was either in love or I had smallpox."

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:21:30 GMT, Mary Pegg
wrote:

Any recommendations?

Looking for a year's worth of worldwide cover, individual trips
of less than 30 days, but primarily for the upcoming "expedition".

You haven't said what country you're from but I'm guessing it's the
UK, based on your email address (and rDNS for your news server is in
Cambridge).

The following people should be able to help:

http://www.direct-travel.co.uk/

We've got an annual multi-trip policy with them (covers us both) for
£99 all in. That includes cover for scuba diving, hot air ballooning,
ATV touring (quad bikes) plus we've included a winter sports option as
we'll be skiing in Europe come the winter. You're also covered for
loads of other stuff too.

Not sure where these quotes of AU$500 etc are coming from - I
sincerely hope that's NOT what they have to pay in Oz! :-(

Simon Pleasants wrote:

You haven't said what country you're from but I'm guessing it's the
UK, based on your email address (and rDNS for your news server is in
Cambridge).

Golly, what a lot of work to go to... given the subject line grin.

The following people should be able to help:

http://www.direct-travel.co.uk/

Thanks, sounds good.

I've a quote from Asda (of all people) for ~55 GBP for multi-trip
exc. North America - will check the above and report back!

Not sure where these quotes of AU$500 etc are coming from - I
sincerely hope that's NOT what they have to pay in Oz! :-(

Yeah, all a bit frightening. Maybe that's for a whole year
on the road.

--
"I was nauseous and tingly all over.
I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Mary Pegg wrote:

http://www.direct-travel.co.uk/

Thanks, sounds good.

I've a quote from Asda (of all people) for ~55 GBP for multi-trip
exc. North America - will check the above and report back!

Direct Travel produced a quote for 51, including North America.

--
"I was nauseous and tingly all over.
I was either in love or I had smallpox."