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Does Travel Direct insurance cover rescue from the piste?
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Doing the normal holiday insurance booking thing! I went with direct travel on my two holidays last year and thankfully didn't have to claim. Just went to book with them again and last year had it drummed into me to check a few essentials like flying me back to the UK and rescuing me off the piste! It must have clearly offered it last year or I wouldn't have gone with them but this year I don't seem to be able to see anything about rescue / recovery off the slopes? Am I being blind!
Why is nothing easy!!!! gahhh
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Millie10
, if it's a travel insurance which specifically covers skiing, it would be most peculiar if it didn't cover piste rescue. However, the way the companies lay out their "policy wording" is often hard to decipher. You'd think that the all-important search and rescue costs would be specifically mentioned in the ski section, but that tends just to deal with trivial stuff like getting your skis nicked or compensation if all the lifts are closed.
Why not ring them and ask?
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?
Ok, after a lot of searching looks like they are a no go!
Under the what don't we cover section:
6. Any search and rescue costs (costs charged to you by a government, regulated authority or private
organisation connected with finding and rescuing you. This does not include medical evacuation costs by the
most appropriate transport).
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lots of people on here use Direct Travel Insurance.
I think a full Search and Rescue is a bit different to getting you off the piste
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
I was with them last year. They now changed and you have to take out specific snow sports cover. I have used snowcard this year. There was a big insurance thread going a while back that discussed how many companies had massively hiked their premiums and/or backed away from snow sports or off piste cover.
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