Hi everyone,
The lovely @latchbrook set up the original 'recommended travel insurance thread' which you can still view here. Just so you don't have to go through the different pages of information to find recent recommendations, you can find the most recent experiences in this thread.
Please note, all recommendations are from Community members and are not recommendations from Macmillan. Please do your own research as to whether the companies are suitable for you.
This thread can be used to update the group when you've found an insurance company that provided you with cover at a reasonable cost from a recommendation you found here or elsewhere.
If you could put a little bit of additional information eg. whether you got a single trip or annual, cover for a cruise, worldwide, etc along with anything else that you think others would find helpful when they are researching that would be great.
You may also find Macmillan's 'Cancer and buying travel insurance' page to be helpful
The decision on Annual v single trip obviousiy depends on how many trips you plan to take in the 12 month period.
One thing to consider is that with a single trip policy each time you book a trip you’ll be starting from scratch as regards taking out cover, that said, with an annual policy if your condition or your medication changes during the period of insurance you’ll still have to declare it although it may be slightly more straightforward because you’ll know what they’ve already agreed to cover.
My annual insurance definitely worked out cheaper than taking out separate single trip policies even with an additional premium part way through the year when I had to declare something new.
We took out an expensive annual one from Insure and Go for both of us as we had four trips planned for the year.
The important thing is for a couple travelling together to be on the same policy so that if anything happens to either of you they will repatriate you together.
As my partner is having maintenance immunotherapy but his lesions have vanished, several companies AllClear, Insurancewith etc refused to cover him for a year.
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