Wondering whether any US residents have any suggestions on Cunard's GB insurance requirement.
Situation:
Family trip (multi-national family) to Alaska; the whole thing was booked though Cunard UK. Cunard are requiring GBP2.5m medical/repatriation insurance.
According to Cunard's customer service, because the trip was booked in the UK, all guests need to meet the same insurance requirement despite some of us being resident in the US. If it had been booked in the US, the requirement would not be applied. They advised us to use Holiday Extras, despite Holiday Extras policies being limited to UK residents -- so I don't have any confidence in Cunard's customer service knowing what they are doing.
Putting aside the issue of GBP2.5m being absurdly high for repatriation from Alaska to the US (where our permanent insurance would kick in ... and yes, I realize Alaska is part of the US, that's the point), let's try to entertain the requirement. A GBP2.5m policy would pretty much equate to a USD3.5m policy, and I can't find anybody offering something like that for travel within the US and Canada. We usually cruise with a USD1m policy.
Surely this is not all that unusual, what have other people done?
