Lets have another holiday thread to brighten us up.....where will you (hopefully) be going ?

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Dave7

Dave7

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Cheshire
Oh dear I won't tell Mrs P.Thanks for the tip.
Ooops.... sorry. I read your post as you had been.
There was a lovely pub with LOTS of malt whiskies and nice meals.
Take your binoculars...... bird watching is amazing.
Trip to the Farne Islands highly recommended but it is really weather dependant.
 

gbb

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Peterborough
Don't really know what you're trying to say?

I replied to a thread where someone stated that the NHIC cards were no longer, I simply pointed out that wasn't true, what has having additional travel insurance got to do with anything?

The cards were always an addition to proper insurance, as is still the case.
I always treated it as such too. An EHIC card holder who (perhaps unnecessarily who knows ?) always took travel insurance out too. I'd sooner be well covered that be unsure. Seems to me a quite sensible thing to do, given travel insurance isn't that expensive.
 

PK99

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SW19
I always treated it as such too. An EHIC card holder who (perhaps unnecessarily who knows ?) always took travel insurance out too. I'd sooner be well covered that be unsure. Seems to me a quite sensible thing to do, given travel insurance isn't that expensive.

I agree.

The marginal cost of travel insurance is trivial - if you can afford to travel you are stupid to scrimp on the few pounds it costs to be properly insured.
 

BoldonLad

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South Tyneside
I agree.

The marginal cost of travel insurance is trivial - if you can afford to travel you are stupid to scrimp on the few pounds it costs to be properly insured.
It may be marginal for YOU, but, two 72 year olds, with pre-existing conditions, for three months, is a different matter.

EHIC served us nicely, our European jaunts may now be at an end, sadly. ;)
 

Julia9054

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Knaresborough
I've never bothered with travel insurance and have always just used the EHIC card. Had treatment in a&e in France and it worked very well
Bought travel insurance for the first time this year as we were supposed to be walking at height in the Dolomites. When it got cancelled, we tried to claim but it was refused. Cost £77 for an annual policy.
 
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PK99

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SW19
It may be marginal for YOU, but, two 72 year olds, with pre-existing conditions, for three months, is a different matter.

EHIC served us nicely, our European jaunts may now be at an end, sadly. ;)

Ok.

Tell me the numbers.

Total budget for 3 months travel and holiday.

Travel health insurance cost with a specialist Health Impaired/Elderly travel insurance company.
 

Slick

Guru
It may be marginal for YOU, but, two 72 year olds, with pre-existing conditions, for three months, is a different matter.

EHIC served us nicely, our European jaunts may now be at an end, sadly. ;)
Has it not to be replaced by a similar scheme?
 

PK99

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I've never bothered with travel insurance and have always just used the EHIC card. Had treatment in a&e in France and it worked very well
Bought travel insurance for the first time this year as we were supposed to be walking at height in the Dolomites. When it got cancelled, we tried to claim but it was refused. Cost £77 for an annual policy.

You chose the wrong policy.

I had a skiing accident in Feb 2016.

Rescue from mountain.
In resort medical care.
In resort physio twice per day for 5 days
Business class travel home.
Taxi from airport to home.
Refund for a Holiday in Cuba due to start a week after we got back.

All paid in full. Total circa £10k

Annual policy covering holiday, mobile phone and Green Flag motoring cover, plus a few other bits and bobs i can't recall. £150 per year now, less in 2016.
 

BoldonLad

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Ok.

Tell me the numbers.

Total budget for 3 months travel and holiday.

Travel health insurance cost with a specialist Health Impaired/Elderly travel insurance company.
We travel in a Motorhome, cost for three months in France, Spain, etc, tunnel, plus, whatever diesel we use, plus a few campsites, typically about £1000 maximum, the other costs, ie food and drink, are as if we were at home (roughly). Last quote we had for insurance was £250, EACH and excluded our pre-existing conditions. Didn’t seem like a bargain to me.

considering we have been doing this (ie 1 x 3 months and 1 x 2 months), per year for 14 years, I consider we are ahead.
 
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Julia9054

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Knaresborough
You chose the wrong policy.
Quite possibly - like I said, we've never purchased it before. Mainly because we've never been on any type of package holiday before.
We had a kind of cross Europe trip planned. When the organised bit of it cancelled, we had no need of the other bits (various train tickets and an overnight hotel in Munich). This, apparently, is not a good enough reason to cancel
 

Archie_tect

De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
Location
Northumberland
You chose the wrong policy.

I had a skiing accident in Feb 2016.

Rescue from mountain.
In resort medical care.
In resort physio twice per day for 5 days
Business class travel home.
Taxi from airport to home.
Refund for a Holiday in Cuba due to start a week after we got back.

All paid in full. Total circa £10k

Annual policy covering holiday, mobile phone and Green Flag motoring cover, plus a few other bits and bobs i can't recall. £150 per year now, less in 2016.
That's why everyone's insurance premiums are rising- it's all down to your claims PK!
[Covid may have something to do with it too... I'll give you that!]
 

PK99

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SW19
That's why everyone's insurance premiums are rising- it's all down to your claims PK!
[Covid may have something to do with it too... I'll give you that!]

No that's down to a friend who lost a leg in a motoring accident in Spain.
3 months in hospital, a good bit of that in intensive care with multiple operations
Wife flown out to be with him...

Air ambulance home.

All covered on insurance.
 
I want Portugal, never been. Heard great things. BUT I said I would pay for my daughter's and I now have a granddaughter. The cost would ruin it. So a day out in Mablethorpe and collect some Samphire while I am there.
 
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Dave7

Dave7

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I want Portugal, never been. Heard great things. BUT I said I would pay for my daughter's and I now have a granddaughter. The cost would ruin it. So a day out in Mablethorpe and collect some Samphire while I am there.
Yes......it could be expensive.
We found eating out to be cheap. Also plenty of pubs @£1.00 a pint.
But the actual holiday was not cheap.
 
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