Insurance for Children

I was handed a newspaper clipping earlier this week which posed the question of insuring children when they were travelling on their own. It appears that a number of travel insurance companies would not offer the author’s daughter a policy because she was travelling unaccompanied (even though she would be looked after by stewardesses and be met at the airport).

Travel Insurance Direct’s policies have no restrictions on age, only that an unaccompanied child will be charged the adult rate.

We have an extrememly good value young person’s “Backpacker” style of insurance which could be ideal. Backpacker Insurance.

Alternatively, if parents or legal guardians have purchased a Travel Insurance Direct Annual Policy and named the child – free of charge – on the insurance, then the youngster could travel fully insured even if on their own. Annual Travel Insurance.

Ski Holidays, getting the right holiday insurance

There are many policies available for ski holidays, but it is important to ensure that your skiing holiday insurance covers ankle breakages through the use of poor skiing boots.

This is an important factor as research now shows that as much as 60% of broken ankles in Skiing accidents are caused by bad ski boots.

At Travel Insurance direct we have reacted to this data and ensured our policies offer full cover for this type of personal injury.