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Travel Insurance & Winter Sports

  • 21-02-2013 11:39am
    #1
    rjp123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭


    Any recommendations on which travel insurance to get to cover ski trip (ie. to include winter sports). Anything I should look for in particular (basic levels of cover/ off piste/ equipment repair/replace)...
    Thanks


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  • #2
    Fattes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    Multi Trip.ie are pretty good & have a decent policy in relation equipment cost and cover. Their policy is the best one in Ireland for 85-90% of people who will ski from here.

    Off Piste; If you want full OFF Piste cover you are going to need a full mountain safety qualification, and the right insurer and still expect to pay about €200. Trust me I know this, Most will cover Off Piste with a guide (The use of the word Guide is important) It excludes instructors!!!

    That will also have wording in relation to local conditions on the day etc. To be honest the best one on the Market is Dogtag or Skiclub Uk if you want to spend the money.


  • #3
    Shiny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Shiny


    Wow thanks for that Fattes. I was going to go with AIB insurance but your link is waaay cheaper. :)


  • #4
    rjp123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭rjp123


    cheers. went with multitrip.


  • #5
    Fattes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    Glad to be of assitance


  • #6
    stevire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭stevire


    It's worth paying the extra bit to get good travel insurance....

    Friend on our trip a couple of weeks ago snapped her cruciate on the last day of the trip. Aviva wouldn't pay for surgery and had to put up quite an argument to get them to pay for an MRI. They did however arrange and pay for alternate travel arrangements for private transfer and extra legroom.

    Only problem is that she now has to wait a number of weeks for the swelling to go down before it can be operated on. If she had got the surgery in Austria she would be in and out in the same day and probably back on her feet by now.


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  • #7
    Fattes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    Most French and Swiss resorts sell excellent insurance with your lift pass as a € 5 or so extra. It won’t cover your for when you get home, but it will get you well looked after while in the country you are in.


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