| When you think of why you'd need travel insurance | | | | filled that booking with someone else. Luckily your |
| you probably get images of broken legs whilst skiing, | | | | travel insurance policy covers events such as these |
| Car rental mishaps in the Mediterranean and eating | | | | and can help regain most of the expenses which |
| some dodgy shrimp. You wouldn't normally associate | | | | normally would be lost. |
| a weekend break within the UK as somewhere you'd | | | | It's also becoming more popular for people to take |
| need travel insurance. | | | | advantage of cheap domestic flights and taking the |
| But the truth is that wherever you go in the UK you | | | | plane as opposed to a long and winding road trip, so |
| are still going to need travel insurance, just not in the | | | | if you were to cancel your holiday even due to |
| way you'd normally expect. Since you'll still be in the | | | | bereavement then normally you'd be left out of |
| UK you won't be claiming against your life insurance if | | | | pocket, travel insurance covers this too fortunately. |
| you get injured, that's what health insurance is for. | | | | This would also cover lost luggage as even with |
| The situations you'd need to claim against travel | | | | domestic flights it's not unknown for your bags to |
| insurance would normally be the occasions where you | | | | disappear off the face of the earth! |
| have to cancel your holiday or cut it short. One such | | | | Invariably whilst you're away you'll be taking a |
| situation could be that you go on holiday for two | | | | camera with you, and in this day and age probably a |
| weeks, when halfway through you injure yourself | | | | mobile phone or MP3 player too, if you were to lose |
| meaning you have to go to the hospital, | | | | or damage it while on holiday then you may not be |
| subsequently cutting your holiday short. Aside from | | | | able to afford a replacement out of your own |
| the medical costs you could end up being lumbered | | | | money. |
| with charges for your accommodation even though | | | | So as you can see there are plenty of occasions |
| you're stuck in a hospital bed and not even at the | | | | where you'd need travel insurance, no matter where |
| hotel anymore! | | | | you go, be it abroad or the other side of the |
| This is unfortunate but hotels are well within their | | | | country. |
| rights to charge you as otherwise they could have | | | | |