Don’t crash in Europe
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Repatriation doesn't just mean an Air Ambulance.
It also didn't cover a helicoptering off the side of a mountain for my wife when spending a day off the bike and walking a mountain trail near Les Arcs in the Alps. She slipped and broke her ankle. The travel insurance covered the helicopter (in 2002, 1800 euros), a taxi from Bourg St Maurice to Geneva airport, four seats on a scheduled flight to Heathrow and a taxi from Heathrow to Suffolk.
Hate to think what that lot cost in total.
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It’s also worth checking that your breakdown insurance covers personal repatriation due to a terminal mechanical breakdown, not all do and some just cover the vehicle’s repatriation.
When my CBF1000 expired in Innsbruck the breakdown cover paid for a hotel for 1 night, a hire car to the UK, a ferry ticket, and another hire car from Dover to home. The bike arrived back two weeks later. Maybe I could have claimed for all that on my travel insurance after the event but it was a lot easier just to get it all sorted out by the breakdown insurance department at the time (Carol Nash Euro breakdown cover) even though that was still a slightly stressful process and not all plain sailing but they got me back home.
When my CBF1000 expired in Innsbruck the breakdown cover paid for a hotel for 1 night, a hire car to the UK, a ferry ticket, and another hire car from Dover to home. The bike arrived back two weeks later. Maybe I could have claimed for all that on my travel insurance after the event but it was a lot easier just to get it all sorted out by the breakdown insurance department at the time (Carol Nash Euro breakdown cover) even though that was still a slightly stressful process and not all plain sailing but they got me back home.
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So who currently offers good value European travel and repatriation insurance that allows me to ride something bigger than 125cc?.
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try cedar tree travel insurance,Ksithumper wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:22 pm So who currently offers good value European travel and repatriation insurance that allows me to ride something bigger than 125cc?.
just done a quick search for me 10 days all Europe £20 silver tier[bike]
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My 2002 travel insurance was with Britannia Continental. The conditions may have changed in the 20 years since.Ksithumper wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:22 pm So who currently offers good value European travel and repatriation insurance that allows me to ride something bigger than 125cc?.
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try cedar tree travel insurance,
just done a quick search for me 10 days all Europe £20 silver tier[bike]
dave.
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That looks like a very good find. Thanks.
try cedar tree travel insurance,
just done a quick search for me 10 days all Europe £20 silver tier[bike]
dave.
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That looks like a very good find. Thanks.
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I travel from Ireland.
EHIC covers a lot for me as in most of the medical bills and hospitals locally but thats the limit .
I have private health insurance, that covers the medical bits not covered by the EHIC.
A top up Annual All country Travel Policy on top of that for 52 euros covers everything including special rescue for me, injuries from motorcycle riding and repatriation for me.
Carol Nash cover then covers the bike failure risks etc etc
Thing is my bikes are old, they arent going to repatriate an old bike at very big expense and limit their cover to a payout to the value of the bike. if its bad Just fly home, bring another bike out.
Not a bad level of cover.
EHIC covers a lot for me as in most of the medical bills and hospitals locally but thats the limit .
I have private health insurance, that covers the medical bits not covered by the EHIC.
A top up Annual All country Travel Policy on top of that for 52 euros covers everything including special rescue for me, injuries from motorcycle riding and repatriation for me.
Carol Nash cover then covers the bike failure risks etc etc
Thing is my bikes are old, they arent going to repatriate an old bike at very big expense and limit their cover to a payout to the value of the bike. if its bad Just fly home, bring another bike out.
Not a bad level of cover.
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Applied late on Saturday and they both arrived today
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I didn’t know that. So travel insurance with repatriation is now required for travel to Europe, as in compulsory? I don’t think it’s a requirement elsewhere, though I would always have it anyway.
I had massive bill in the US after a helicopter evacuation and a stay in a decompression chamber a few years ago, I’d have been properly stuffed without travel insurance on that one.
I thought the EHIC/GHIC cards just saved you a potential hospital bill in the EU, but not any rescue or other associated costs, but from what you’re saying an EHIC alone isn’t enough and insurance is compulsory. How do they check? At the borders?
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