Annual Travel Insurance

To be covered, you need to have received all doses of the COVID vaccine that you’ve been offered, including any booster jabs.

You can also be covered if you can’t have the vaccine due to a medical exemption.

If you have refused any doses of the COVID vaccine or any booster jab, then you won’t be covered for COVID related claims.

Annual Multi-Trip Travel Insurance policies cover your travel plans for up to 183 days in total.

Each trip you take must not be longer than:

• 50 days if you are aged 70 or below. You can increase your trip duration limit to up to 100 days (for one trip) by paying an additional premium
• 35 days if you are aged 71 and above

With annual travel insurance, you can choose the start date of your policy and the region you want to be covered for depending on where you’ll be travelling to in the next year.

You can buy your policy and start your cover up to 90 days from now.

It’s up to you when you buy and start your policy. But keep in mind that your cover only starts when your policy does, so if you want to be covered for cancellation it’s best to start your cover as soon as you can.

A specialist travel insurance provider for your annual travel insurance can give you peace of mind while you’re on holiday. If something unexpected happens, we’ll be there to get you back on your feet.

Many people rely on their bank when it comes to their travel insurance. But did you know you’re 9% more likely to have a claim rejected by a bank travel insurance policy compared to specialist travel insurance?

If you have pre-existing medical conditions, are over a certain age or are planning to take part in activities on holiday, bank travel insurance might not cover you.

With tailored annual travel insurance, you can be covered with up to unlimited medical expenses, with no upper age limit. Isn’t that what you’d call peace of mind?

For our yearly policies you can add the whole family from newborns upward but when buying as a couple or family, you could find it’s cheaper to buy together. Families and couples living at the same address often get an automatic discount applied, so it might be better for you to buy your policies together.

If a family member on your policy falls ill, then you’re also more protected if you have to change your plans. When insured individually, you may not be covered - having the right insurance means that you and your family are covered properly.

We specialise in covering people with pre-existing medical conditions, with tailored travel insurance to suit their personal and medical needs. Whether you have high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer or anything else, you must declare it.

If you do not declare any pre-existing medical conditions you may have then you may find that your insurance will be invalid if something does happen related to your condition. With 1 in 20 people who purchased an annual policy in 2018 claiming on their insurance**, it’s best to make sure you’re covered.

You can add conditions to tailor your policy through our simple online medical screening.

The difference between choosing Single Trip Travel Insurance or an annual policy is how often you’re planning on travelling, how long you’re planning on travelling for and where you’re going to:

With an Annual Travel Insurance policy, you will be covered for multiple trips in a 12-month period (trip limits apply). You can buy your policy up to 90 days before you want it to start.

A single trip policy will cover you for one return trip and can be bought up to 18 months before you travel.

Both have no upper age limit.

Having a free Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) or a valid European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) is useful if you’re travelling around Europe (excluding Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland). In fact, it’s a condition of our travel insurance that you take a GHIC or valid EHIC with you if you’re travelling to European countries.

But an EHIC or GHIC is not a replacement for good holiday insurance. It won’t be able to cover cancellations, loss of baggage or other medical related claims such as emergency transport home.

If you’ve had to use your GHIC or EHIC when travelling and need to claim, we’ll waive the excess that you’d normally have to pay on medical claims.

When it comes to our Annual Travel Insurance policy, you can choose between four regions to cover different locations you could be going on holiday to in the next year. The only countries or areas we cannot provide cover to visit are where either the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) or the World Health Organisation (WHO) have advised against all or all but essential travel. You should check the FCDO advice for your destination, and any WHO updates when going abroad.

Region 1: UK & Europe, excluding Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Malta Morocco, Spain, Turkey and Tunisia,

Region 2: Includes all of Europe - including those excluded in region 1

Region 3: Worldwide excluding Bermuda, Canada, the islands of the Caribbean, China, Hong Kong, Mexico, Thailand, and the United States of America

Region 4: All countries

Our Annual Multi-Trip Travel Insurance includes winter sports activities as standard. This means you’ll be covered for winter sports activities for up to 21 days in one trip.

For more information on what our Winter Sports Travel Insurance covers, click here.

You can declare your medical conditions through our medical screening process, which is a set of questions for us to understand how your conditions affect you. It’s important that you declare all pre-existing conditions on your medical travel insurance policy.

This may avoid large medical bills if you need treatment in another country. Failure to disclose any pre-existing medical conditions may affect the validity of your policy should you need to claim.

Travel insurance only covers the cost of unexpected events and emergencies. COVID-19 testing has become a routine procedure for many countries, so it isn’t covered by your travel insurance.

You can get 10% off COVID-19 tests from Randox Health with new travel insurance policies, though.