Holidays abroad.

Hi, I'm going abroad for first time since secondary diagnosis 10 months ago.  We have booked to go to Spain next Sunday. I was dreading cost of travel insurance, but went with recommendations for Insure With. It cost £58 for a week!! 

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Hi, I’m Stage 4 with ongoing treatment if it helps and for a week I was charged £1700 for Spain. Over £5000 for America. I was declined on some. I was told if I’d been given a 6 month survival they wouldn’t insure me. So I am interested it what you find out.

Hi Sambob, a holiday sounds great.  We went to Portugal in September, the first holiday since diagnosis last year.  I got a quote from insurancewith which was £296 for my husband and myself for an annual multi trip policy.  Some of the other companies were ridiculously expensive.  You can do the quote and take the policy out online or phone them, they were recommended by my oncologist.  Hope you have a lovely holidayx

Hi, I’ve been abroad about 8 times in the past couple of years since diagnosis. I used Avanti the first year but it cost a lot of money so I used insurewith this past year. I paid around 80 pounds per trip (3-4 days). I thought it was too good to be true tbh but they have good recommendations and you’ll always find a bad review for all of them if you look hard enough so I thought why not! I think they are cheaper because it is tailored to the individual. They ask lots of questions about bloods, ae visits etc. Good luck and enjoy! I try and book a holiday after a stable scan while I can still do it! Xx

I have liver mets and I’m currently stable. However, the quote was still good when I had to say mixed response on one scan (it wasn’t in the end but that’s another story!). X

My gosh! I think I’ll give them a go! Though I was Britain bound for the rest of my days.

Definitely not! I see it that there will be a time when it will just be Uk breaks so I’m cramming in as many as I can while I can!  It will be York next though at Xmas and hopefully Florence in April. I find it helps me mentally having a little break to look forward to. I did assisted travel with my mum last time (she had Parkinson’s) as well and it was brilliant! My legs are pretty bad now (from lovely letrozole) so it’s a bit of a struggle walking long distances. They were fantastic at Malaga airport. We went straight through from the entrance of the airport to boarding in a buggy ! Didn’t even have to get off it at passport control! Then on a lift to the plane. So if you feel well enough to go, there’s no reason not to even with dodgy legs! Xx

Me and mum in Malaga airport 

Another vote for Insurancewith. I paid around £300 for an annual multi trip European policy with Insurancewith.  Metastatic TNBC. I think it cost me around £250 when I needed to extend the geography to worldwide excluding the Americas so I could go to Asia. The cancellation cover it gives you isn’t great so I tend to book fairly late when I know I am going to be well enough to go. My concern is having medical cover should anything go wrong when abroad. I have been using them for 3 years, had no problems albeit I haven’t needed to claim. Message sent from my current holiday in Puglia!