Editor Review
The Good: This plan offers essential coverage for travel risks and broad reasons for trip cancellations.
The Drawbacks: Emergency medical expense limits and travel delay limits are relatively low.
The Bottom Line: This is solid travel insurance that covers the essentials with reasonably priced upgrades to enhance the coverage for your travel needs. Cover trips up to 30 days long.
Coverage
Benefits | Maximum |
Trip cancellation | 100% (maximum trip cost $10,000) |
Trip interruption | 100% (no return air if $0 trip cost) |
Missed connections (12 hours or more) | $300 |
Travel delays (12 hours or more) | $100 per day/$300 maximum |
Medical expenses | $10,000 ($50 deductible/$750 dental) |
Emergency evacuations | $100,000 |
Baggage loss | $750 ($50 deductible, $250 per/$500 combined) |
Baggage delay (24 hours or more) | $200 |
24/7 assistance services | Yes |
Plan Details
This plan is unique in that it provides the following:
- Long review period (14 days) and get a premium refund.
- Covered reasons for trip cancellation are broad and include terrorist attacks, natural disasters, hospitalization of host, strikes, traffic accidents, job loss and more.
- Change fees and reimbursement of mileage or rewards points up to $250.
Optional Coverage
The following optional coverage is available when you purchase this plan:
- Optional ‘cancel for work reasons’ upgrade for just $24 per person.
- Double your medical and evacuation limits with an optional medical upgrade for $25 per person.
- Optional car rental coverage for up to $25,000 for just $7 per day.
- Optional flight-only AD&D at affordable prices and you choose the coverage limit.
Limitations
The following are the limitations on this plan’s coverage:
- No coverage for pre-existing medical conditions.
- No base coverage for AD&D.
- No ‘cancel for any reason’ available.