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AnnieY

AnnieY

Time of past OR future Camino

September 2014

• Jul 23, 2014

• #1

do people take it as well as ehic?

 

Tia Valeria

Veteran Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Pt Norte/Pmtvo 2010
C. Inglés 2011
C. Primitivo '12
Norte-C. de la Reina '13
C. do Mar-C. Inglés '15

• Jul 23, 2014

• #2

We take travel insurance so that cancellation due to illness is covered, medical costs over and above EHIC provision and repatriation if needed. This is different, if searching online, to medical insurance which is just health cover for private medical attention. It is the travel insurance that we feel that we need.

 

Houlet

Active Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Camino Frances 2014
Via de la Plata 2015
Camino Sanabres 2015
Camino Norde 2017

• Jul 23, 2014

• #3

I did too and luckily did not need it.

I coud have had 30 days for around £25 but went with a better known name at £32.

 

cinimod

Member

Time of past OR future Camino

St J P d P to Pamplona (August 2014)

• Jul 24, 2014

• #4

I just used www.comparethemarket.com and got annual mutli-trip in Europe for the 3 of us (2 adult + child) for £25 with American Express.... seemed like a pretty good deal. Unfortunately you don't get a meerkat with Travel Insurance.

 

sillydoll

Veteran Member

Time of past OR future Camino

2002 CF: 2004 from Paris: 2006 VF: 2007 CF: 2009 Aragones, Ingles, Finisterre: 2011 X 2 on CF: 2013 'Caracoles': 2014 CF and Ingles 'Caracoles":2015 Logrono-Burgos (Hospitalero San Anton): 2016 La Douay to Aosta/San Gimignano to Rome:

• Jul 27, 2014

• #5

When I fell and broke my arm outside Navarette in May, I had to get a taxi back to the hospital in Logrono. The first thing they asked me was whether or not I had insurance. When I said yes, they asked for my passport, put the info they needed into their system and I was x-rayed and the arm casted without paying anything upfront. Same in Burgos 6 days later when I had to have more x-rays and a new cast applied. I received the accounts last week - €147 from Logrono and €250 from Burgos - and have sent them to the insurance company. If it had been a fractured leg or hip I might've had to be sent home and that would have cost a fortune!