 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi Snowheads
I just wondering if anyone had ski insurance with SkiCover.com, I had a good package with them
, however at the start of lockdown, they told me my insurance did not cover anything Pandemic related, so our accommodation in Austria, was not covered, and the Austrian accomadation, offered us the same time next season, however they could not guarantee any extras fees, so they offered us a refund due to our unhappiness less 20% (€200), not happy with either the Ski Insurance or the hosts in Austria, can someone recommend insurance that covers for such events ?or is it the same all over ? As I heard some skiers had insurance ? with what cover is unknown. Many thanks in advance
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sorry. Try taking a deep breath and explaining slowly what your problem is?
TOs or accomodation owners owe you the money for the services they couldn't provide. Your Insurance is to cover you for unexpected things that happen to you. But COVID is now an expected thing so insurance is all a bit of a minefield for next winter. No one really knows if they have something cast iron.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Echo4, so your 'BAD AUSTRIAN EXPERIENCE' essentially means that the accommodation provider kept a non-refundable deposit? Think about it this way, most accommodation providers in Austrian ski towns are not part of large hotel chains but owned and run by individual families. The money they earn from tourists is their bread and butter. They can't effectively insure against no-shows, so charging a non-refundable deposit is one way to mitigate this. Many of them lost a month's worth of income in the spring when the pandemic kicked off. Which is a lot considering they only really have income for half of the year. Fortunately the summer season has been reasonably buoyant although it has brought another much smaller wave of infections.
Your losses should have been covered by insurance, but perhaps you didn't buy that wisely. Lesson learned hopefully.
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You had paid €1000 and got back €800? That’s not too bad given the situation.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Whether insurance covered Covid related cancellations was dependent upon the wording. Many policies had specific exclusions for pandemics, the insurance industry most recently got wise to this risk sometime back when SARS was a potentially worldwide risk and before that I think it was bird flu which first caused concern vis a vis a worldwide disease within the insurance industry. In short many many policies including annual policies which are still applicable do contain exclusions for worldwide pandemics and some dont. The other wording which is catching people out is around exclusions where the Government have advised against travel to certain places. Again cover will likely be denied if this applies although in some types of claim the insurer might accept a claim if the incident about which the claim arises has absolutely nothing to do with Covid for example an injury or illness while in a country against which travel has been advised against but where the claim is not caused by, exacerbated nor the costs enhanced or exaggerated as a result of Covid. Insurance is a minefield, you need to read policy wordings very carefully and particularly where cover is relatively inexpensive or is included with a bundle of other products a in a packaged bank account. If the policy is cheap there is almost certainly a reason why.
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Thanks for all the opinons, @queenie pretty please, I understand the Austrians safe guarding against a no-show, however most training, schools have offered students a full refund as a good will gesture, and would have possibly led to further bookings, but now, definitely NOT, as for the insurance @FFIRMIN, It was a Ski.com ski policy and was not cheap, so I will be be very careful this season to read the size 4 type !! 
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| queenie pretty please wrote: |
...most accommodation providers in Austrian ski towns are not part of large hotel chains but owned and run by individual families. ...
...Your losses should have been covered by insurance, but perhaps you didn't buy that wisely. Lesson learned hopefully. |
It's irrelevant morally or legally a company is big or small.
And in any case the people they're taking money from are likely individual holidaymakers, so that argument doesn't make sense.
I'm not sure you can sensibly insure for "the supplier has stolen my money", if you see what I mean.
It probably depends precisely on why the contract could not be fulfilled, the wording of any policy, and how it was sold.
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Thanks Everybody, Im putting it behind me as a very valuable lesson learned !!!!!!!!!!!
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And why did you cancel? If the accommodation was still available but you decided not to go, they have a point. And most insurance policies carry an excess.
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@philwig, so you have never booked something and paid a non-refundable deposit? Holidaymakers can buy travel insurance. My point was that accommodation providers cannot buy insurance against holidaymakers who fail to show, for whatever reason. For them it's just income down the drain whereas the holidaymaker can claim on their insurance assuming they bought a suitable policy.
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the holidaymaker can claim on their insurance
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that all depends.... not, generally, if you just change your mind (that's why I asked). And not if the policy has an explicit exclusion, as it did in this case. And most policies will carry an excess.
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