Murphy's Law dictates that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, and nowhere is this more true than on holiday. Whether it is torrential rain on the beach, cockroach infested hotel rooms, or luggage that disappears somewhere between one airport and the next, every traveller has their own holiday horror story. That's why travel insurance is essential for holidays abroad - it can't stop disaster striking, but it can at least limit the damage to your poor wallet!
It's easy to say "it won't happen to me", but even the rich and famous aren't immune to holiday disasters - here are four stories that show that no matter who you are and where you are going, it always pays to have worldwide travel insurance...
Hardman Ross Kemp Humbled by Mosquito
He may currently be dodging bullets in Afghanistan, but while on holiday in Africa actor and presenter Ross Kemp fell foul of the tiny mosquito. He fell behind on his anti-malarial medication, contracted malaria, and consequently spent a feverish week in hospital and lost two and a half stone. Precisely the kind of situation when you want your worldwide travel insurance to cover you - serious medical attention can be disastrously expensive for the uninsured...
Paula Radcliffe Discovers Hurricanes Can Strike Twice
Sometimes, fate just seems to have it in for you, as champion marathon runner Paula Radcliffe discovered when she had a holiday disrupted by a hurricane...twice. First on a holiday to Florida, then on the following year in Antigua, she fell foul of Hurricane's George and Josephine.
Note that worldwide travel insurance won't always cover you for natural disasters, so if you are travelling to a destination that is at risk make sure your insurance will protect you.
Ray Mears and the Lost Luggage of Belarus
You'd think that survival expert Ray Mears was no stranger to holiday disasters (especially since he makes a living by actively seeking them out!) but it turns out that even being a master of bushcraft doesn't save you from that most mundane of travel problems - lost luggage at an airport in Belarus.
Through he is more used to dealing with the wilderness than with ex-Soviet bureaucracy, Mears rose to the challenge and managed to secure his "lost" luggage by bribing a policeman. However, I'd recommend relying on your holiday insurance to cover the cost of the lost luggage rather than bribing minor officials!
Fay Weldon's Georgian Adventure
Author Fay Weldon's worst holiday sounds like a work of fiction: being forced to toast to Hitler at a wedding between a 70 year old and a 13 year old, scrubbing the filth encrusted bathroom in a dilapidated hotel and enduring the vodka fuelled hatred of the locals from day one were all part and parcel of Weldon's holiday in Georgia. With no direct problems (such as theft or cancellation), there's nothing that travel insurance could have done to make things better - even the best insurance policy in the world can't save you from a total holiday disaster!
Patrick Chong is the Managing Director of Journey's Travel. Their commercial travel insurance website, Insuremore, offers worldwide travel insurance and a quick and easy online claims feature.
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