Travel insurance

[berth]

Hi,

Can anyone advise me, I'm looking at travel insurance for a trip from London to New York, and it's crazy expensive all bc I have asthma, I'm used to paying about twenty pounds a trip but now with my asthma they want 260 pounds!!!

Does that make sense??

Anyone know how or where I can get cheaper insurance from?

Thanks.

[Minushabens]

If you google "travel insurance pre-existing medical conditions" you'll get lots of links both to specialist companies and also places like moneysupermarket.

A couple of useful links are:

moneysupermarket.com/travel...

moneysavingexpert.com/insur... (there's some links to specialist brokers near the bottom).

A ten-fold increase sounds a bit ridiculous but different insurance companies have different specialisms and approaches so shop around & I'd be surprised if you can't get it down significantly lower.

[berth in reply to Minushabens]

Thanks

I actually got that price on money saving experts.

Unfortunately bc I have had more than two admissions to hospital within the year, it hikes up the price.

But I have shopped around a bit and got a better price and will definitely look up the other site you gave me.

Thanks

[GarryS]

It is a case of shopping around. I have only travelled to Europe where my last trip (to Malta) cost around £30. I used a comparison site to find a company with sensible prices. All the medical questionnaires were interested in the number of medications taken (not the type). Three seemed to be the magic number where quotes went up.

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Yes it's costly and some airlines have medical requirements.. There used to be a paper on the Asthma UK with insurance links.. Check it out.. Good luck

[Minushabens]

From reading your further message unfortunately I think the problem really is the two hospital admissions rather than asthma per se. They will take a view that there's a chance it could happen on your trip, hence the sky rocket effect on your premium.

Hopefully though you can keep finding little knock-downs & maybe try ringing up one or two to to see if they will discount it further.

Good luck & enjoy your trip!