Wrecked Holidays
I was reading in the paper today that last year British holidaymakers lost £751m because of travel disruption.
2010 was a particular bad year as on top of the usual BA strikes and bad weather we also had to contend with the Icelandic ash cloud.
I’ve had many clients who have been affected so thought I would give you a couple of tips for safeguarding your holiday.
Firstly insurance, insurance, insurance!
I am still amazed how many people still want to travel without any and the E111 or European health insurance is not the same as travel insurance and won’t for example cover you for repatriation or theft.
So ensure you read the terms and conditions of your insurance policy and make sure it covers all your needs.
Cruiselines are particular strict about insurance and many won’t let you board without you providing them with your insurance details
Here at cruise.co.uk we use a company called cover more so if you need a quote let me know.
Secondly,
It can be a lot cheaper to book your flights independently as the cruiselines flights can be expensive. However bear in mind if you go it alone it’s your responsibility to get to the ship and if something goes wrong your cruise is not protected.
The benefits of booking with the cruiseline is you have your transfers included and also if things go wrong it’s the cruiselines responsibility, they may try to fly you out to the next port and 9 times out of ten I have know them to offer full refunds.
I had an example with 4 passengers who were due to fly out of London Gatwick on the 18th December to Join the Grand Princess. As there we’re no flights of course they we’re disappointed but at least Princess have given us a full refund I have now booked them on to something else.
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