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I have resurrected my travel blog for my upcoming pilgrimage walk in Spain from Zamora to Santiago de Compostela on the Camino Sanabres:
Springtime on the Camino Sanabres
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This will be my fourth Camino pilgrimage...
This conversation gives a lot of good information, but @BigT’s comment is one worth repeating and stressing, especially for US forum members. Many of us have no medical coverage outside the country, so it is a very important issue. For years, I...
I gave up on them when one of their staff phoned the hospital where I was a patient and claimed to be my wife so that she could check up on me by talking to my doctor.
That's absolutely ridiculous! Why does it matter how you paid, or where the money came from. The bill was marked PAID!
If you are on Twitter I would post there about this.
Pay close attention to fine print in the policy for both trip cancellation and trip delay. if you buying policy to cover the losses make sure you are covered for "mechanical breakdown of a travel supplier"
Instead of reading the fine print in the...
Allianz is the worst. Back in July our United Flights to Spain were cancelled at the gate. We were lucky enough to find replacement flights on Air France departing two days later. The additional flight cost was
$1,800.00 each. We filed a claim...
I have responded to previous similar posts and will do so again here. I have used Squaremouth.com to obtain travel insurance for multiple international trips. They are not an insurer but rather a site that allows you to compare a number of...
Just IMHO:
Avoid Allianz , at least in USA .
Key point is that when you file a claim you become a "cost" and you can never supply enough information. This we know from personal experience. They still owe us over $1,000 US, and we had impeccable...
You might want to search the forum for various threads, including my own, of disaster stories from people who have used Allianz.
Hopefully though, you won't have to use them
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