My Travel Insurance Odyssey Ends Well

I, travel blogger, screwed up by forgetting to book travel insurance after my husband and I bought tickets ($256 round-trip!) from Newalk to Honolulu for January. But I rescued myself with insuremytrip.com.

We buy travel insurance only under certain conditions, and in my husband’s view this trip met those conditions. I was kind of on the fence about it, but I agreed to buy a policy. Then I forgot to go to Travel Guard, where we usually get travel insurance, until 17 days after we bought the tickets. Trouble is, Travel Guard excludes some coverage, including financial default of the airline and medical problems related to pre-existing conditions, unless you buy the policy within 14 days of the initial trip deposit.

Uh-oh. So I went to insuremytrip.com, a site that compares travel insurance policies from various companies, and found a Travelex policy that imposes a 21-day limit. Whew.  (SquareMouth.com and QuoteWright.com also compare travel insurance.)

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