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What international travel insurance do you recommend?
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Mountainaire lemmy.world Mountainaire@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-18
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This website suggests TravelInsurance.com, WithFaye.com... my family suggests Allianz... What have been other people's experiences?

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dadarobot lemmy.ml dadarobot@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-05-26
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what is travel insurance?

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jet hackertalks.com jet@hackertalks.com
Joined: 2023-07-06
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International sos is popular amongst corporations

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venusaur lemmy.world venusaur@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-28
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Allianz is great. They pay what they say and do it quickly.

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abeorch friendica.ginestes.es abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es
Joined: 2026-02-16
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Where/which country are you resident? Thats makes all the difference...[code][/code.

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abeorch friendica.ginestes.es abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es
Joined: 2026-02-16
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what is travel insurance?

@dadarobot @Mountainaire A real life requirement if you dont have medical insurance in the place you are going to. Coming from someone who needed it.

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Mountainaire lemmy.world Mountainaire@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-18
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Where/which country are you resident? Thats makes all the difference...[code][/code.

US to Japan! I just went with the #1 result on the comparison hub travelinsurance.com...

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Mountainaire lemmy.world Mountainaire@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-18
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@dadarobot @Mountainaire A real life requirement if you dont have medical insurance in the place you are going to. Coming from someone who needed it.

What did you do? And how was it helpful?

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Mountainaire lemmy.world Mountainaire@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-18
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International sos is popular amongst corporations

Thanks, though this is just for me. I just went to a comparison hub website and got the top result.

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abeorch friendica.ginestes.es abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es
Joined: 2026-02-16
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What did you do? And how was it helpful?

@Mountainaire I've used it a few times for me and family members. I got pneumonia, collapsed lung and spent a few weeks in hospital including intensive care. Walked away with Insurance covering everything including my private ensuite room and some pretty good hospital food to boot.Had my dad in an ambulance for an overnight stay in hospital after passing out and falling in the shower.

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abeorch friendica.ginestes.es abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es
Joined: 2026-02-16
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What did you do? And how was it helpful?

@Mountainaire Also pay for an annual car hire excess policy (costs about 2 days of rental car excess cover) and got £1300 damage claim back from them.

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Mountainaire lemmy.world Mountainaire@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-18
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@Mountainaire I've used it a few times for me and family members. I got pneumonia, collapsed lung and spent a few weeks in hospital including intensive care. Walked away with Insurance covering everything including my private ensuite room and some pretty good hospital food to boot.Had my dad in an ambulance for an overnight stay in hospital after passing out and falling in the shower.

Dang, that must have been scary! I hope you're both feeling better and I'm glad that the insurance worked out well.

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CatGPT lemmy.dbzer0.com CatGPT@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-05-17
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I used travelex and they reimbursed me for my emergency surgery pretty quickly so I’d use them again.

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