travel insurance

larry f


Joined: 29/01/2008
Posts: 117


Message Posted:
03/07/2008 21:10

Hi All,



Can anyone tell me whether TRNC is classified as "Europe" or "The rest of the world " when purchasing travel insurance?



Thanks,



Theresa

Linus


Joined: 04/05/2008
Posts: 49


Message Posted:
03/07/2008 21:16

It may depend I guess on the insurance company but with mine they class it as Europe. NC is classed as Cyprus

larry f


Joined: 29/01/2008
Posts: 117


Message Posted:
03/07/2008 22:16

Thanks Linus



I'm trying to book online and they just give the option of Europe or Worldwide but I think I'll give them a ring tomorrow to be sure

spook


Joined: 23/01/2008
Posts: 124


Message Posted:
03/07/2008 22:42

Larry often cheaper to by your own insurance than use at somewhere like Tesco or the Post Office than online, friends who visited had Tesco Policy and had to make a claim, no prob, Cyprus def part of Europe.

lovingcyprus


Joined: 02/03/2007
Posts: 457


Message Posted:
03/07/2008 22:50

Cyprus both North and South is classed as Europe, no ifs and buts

larry f


Joined: 29/01/2008
Posts: 117


Message Posted:
04/07/2008 13:44

Thanks for all your help



Larry

PtePike


Joined: 20/05/2008
Posts: 887


Message Posted:
04/07/2008 14:18

Do check it out, though. It was only on close examination that I saw one insurance quote only considered Turkey east of the Bosphorus to be Europe, so who knows what some would consider the north of Cyprus to be? I guess that's when some pople aren't quite as vocal in their insistance the TRNC is a sovereign, independent country.

come_on_aylin


Joined: 14/06/2008
Posts: 84


Message Posted:
04/07/2008 15:09

I tried to get travel insurance a couple of years ago for a skiing holiday. Knowing how evasive companies can be when paying out, I went to great lengths to ensure that they knew exactly where we lived. I even emailed the Foreign Office and the EU commission in Hague. Guess what, according to them TRNC is NOT in Europe. I eventually got insurance via World Nomads after several exchanges of emails. Now it is a lot easier. Go along to FMA in Alsancak and they can sort out single trip or annual cover for you which, incidentally, covers you in the South! FMA can be contacted on 0533 845 7296 and 0392 821 8761. P.S. I have no connection with the firm apart from getting my travel insurance from them.

Biker



Joined: 11/01/2008
Posts: 116


Message Posted:
04/07/2008 15:16

Pike

Your Quote:

"I saw one insurance quote only considered Turkey east of the Bosphorus to be Europe"



Cannot be quite true, as it should be the west of Bosporus, Should it not ?



Biker

PtePike


Joined: 20/05/2008
Posts: 887


Message Posted:
04/07/2008 15:41

Biker,



I was swimming upside down in the Bosphorus when I wrote that.

Biker



Joined: 11/01/2008
Posts: 116


Message Posted:
04/07/2008 16:17

Pike



Same as always then, eh ?



Try looking at things the right way round.

Thanks for the kind words on the other post.



Biker

flightholiday


Joined: 19/07/2007
Posts: 118


Message Posted:
04/07/2008 16:27

Loving Cyprus - sorry it depends on each insurance policy (the underwriters may not have the same rules even in one company).



At one point it was safe to say any country with a border on the Med. was Europe according to the travel insurers - this no longer applies.



You must check the small print before buying the policy!



The insurer we use on our web site http://www.flightholiday.co.uk does classify most of the countries with a Mediteranean border as Europe including Turkey (so if you had a problem on a stopover you would be covered there too).

ianj774


Joined: 29/04/2008
Posts: 4


Message Posted:
06/07/2008 15:41

Hello All, I will be driving from UK to Bogaz on 22nd July. My insurance company has told me that I am not covered for Turkey. Does anyone know if I can get covered on-line?, or will there be an insurance office in the port area of Cesme??. I will also need TRNC insurance when I arrive, any idea's on price, both fully comp and 3rd party. I have a renault Kangoo 1.5 diesel. Thanks in advance, Ian.

COACHIE


Joined: 29/07/2008
Posts: 59


Message Posted:
07/09/2008 21:49

depending on your age,i.e below65 and NO AND I MEAN NO medical pre-existing conditions(that phrase covers a multitude of problems) it is some times alot cheaper to book ANNUAL WORLD WIDE policy especially if you travel more than once in the 12 month period. If you are doing for afamily or acouple you have to declare each indivuals medical problems and let the insurer decide what they will or will not cover,if you fail to declare anything,even if you think it is not important,and you make a claim(unless its for an accident i.e you fell down some steps and broke your leg) they will find something to avoid paying you. I have personal experience of this,my daughterhas eventually got her case to the INSURANCE OMBUDSMAN AFTER 3YEARS. So do read the small print it may save you a lot of heartache should something happen, which of course we all no, it always happens to somebody else.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 255


Message Posted:
08/09/2008 06:53

don't use the post office! hubby was taken ill with food poisoning, 4 star a la carte food poisoning, in turkey a few years ago. saw the dr, had the reports. holiday company got us emergancy flights home. when we put the claim into p.o. they refused to pay because we had not read the small print which somewhere said that if you became ill you needed to call there assistance number. (they couldn't have done anymore for us than the hotel and travel company. we were only claiming for two return flights which were fifty pounds each.)

since then we have not taken any as there is no point. a credit card has the same effect if you get into trouble.