Family Travel Insurance

One of the keys to ‘happy’ family travel is planning. If you have young children in particular, you can pretty well forget about total spontaneity, but put in a bit of solid ground work and think ahead and the rest – should – flow smoothly. For the other times, get family travel insurance that includes all the hospital, medical, emergency, travel delay and alternative travel options.

Must have travel insurance benefits should include unlimited overseas medical and hospital expenses and emergency assistance as standard with all policies, cash in hospital and emergency expenses, lost or stolen credit cards, cash, documents, traveller’s cheques, luggage and personal possessions, delayed luggage, trip resumption, personal liability and more.

Some of these benefits you might have opted to go without if you were going solo and travelling cheap and light but with a family everything takes on a new perspective. And when you consider your kids you’ll really appreciate all the benefits of family care travel insurance that supports you with AIG Travel Assist. AIG are world leaders in international emergency assistance and provide fantastic support including:

• Reverse charge number from anywhere in the world with 24/7 emergency assistance plus 24/7 advice from registered medical practitioners
• Emergency transport to the nearest suitable hospital
• Hospital case management and hospital payment guarantees
• Urgent message service – keeping in touch with ‘home’ is critical at such a time
• Emergency travel planning plus assistance to replace travel documents, passports and credit cards

You know how you are when one of your kids are sick or injured now – transfer that to a strange country where possibly no one speaks your language and you aren’t too sure of the hygiene – and you know this is the best protection – protection you just have to have.

For families who like to travel, whether it be worldwide, back to the UK or just across the Tasman, this is really cheap family travel insurance that will see you through when you need it. Getting a quote is simple – if your family travels a few times a year the economical option will be family annual travel insurance – for once a year travel, single trip cover will be the most economical.

Even though we’d like to, we can’t help with tired and cranky kids or toddlers who throw a wobbly at the wrong moment, but we can provide you with great family travel insurance.

• When travelling around Europe, using the local Laundromat is way cheaper than a hotel’s laundry service. Take big garbage bags with you to cart your clothes to and fro, try to time it for first thing in the morning and don’t forget plenty of change. Best advice – get used to double, even triple, wearing your clothes.
• Getting through airport security will vary between countries. If you carry your baby in a sling you may need to discard it and hold your baby away from you as you pass through the scanner. Pack baby essentials such as teats in plastic bags so they are visible to the eye but kept clean should your bag be searched.
• Take an Acidophilus preparation with you, one to suit each member of the family, or you can purchase these in most countries.