nini Posted August 30, 2018 #1 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Holy Cow!!! I have been waiting to book our Geoblue Travel Insurance for our October trip- we wanted the annual Trekker plan. Well, AGAIN the state of Washington is not eligible!!!!! This happens occasionally (I called). If I had called BEFORE August 23, then it would have been ok. So, you ask, why did I not purchase it before now? Because I am budgeting out travel dollars and I knew that I could wait until October to do the purchase. Soooooooooooo, thanks to our wonderful CC board, I have learned about Squaremouth and Insuremytrip. I have found some only ONE option that is valid for an Annual time frame like Geoblue. However, I have also found many options for a per trip basis. All look good and reasonable. My question now is, has anyone heard of Tin Leg , IMG, Arch Roamright, Travel Insured, and there are numerous others. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare GeezerCouple Posted August 30, 2018 #2 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Holy Cow!!! I have been waiting to book our Geoblue Travel Insurance for our October trip- we wanted the annual Trekker plan. Well, AGAIN the state of Washington is not eligible!!!!! This happens occasionally (I called). If I had called BEFORE August 23, then it would have been ok. So, you ask, why did I not purchase it before now? Because I am budgeting out travel dollars and I knew that I could wait until October to do the purchase. Soooooooooooo, thanks to our wonderful CC board, I have learned about Squaremouth and Insuremytrip. I have found some only ONE option that is valid for an Annual time frame like Geoblue. However, I have also found many options for a per trip basis. All look good and reasonable. My question now is, has anyone heard of Tin Leg , IMG, Arch Roamright, Travel Insured, and there are numerous others. Thanks! I've read some problems about Tin Leg and Roamright in terms of difficulties collecting from claims, but have no personal experience. However, we have used Travel Insured, and had several claims, including two large ones. They paid *promptly*, within about 2 weeks of getting the completed documents to them. We did follow up to make sure that they had indeed received everything and nothing else was needed (or not that they were aware of at the time). We will try to stay with Travel Insured whenever possible! (We do get those policies from Trip Insurance Store, who have occasionally answered questions for us, and one time checked with Travel Insured on our behalf while we were overseas with an illness.) GC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nini Posted August 31, 2018 Author #3 Share Posted August 31, 2018 GeezerCouple- I really appreciate your information and experience. Wishing you many safe travels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klfrodo Posted August 31, 2018 #4 Share Posted August 31, 2018 I'm also from Washington State and I to have looked into GeoBlue. I actually wrote to the State Insurance Commissioner and asked why GoeBlue couldn't be sold in the State of Washington. They told me that they could, just choose not to. Then, as you saw, it could be sold, but I guess that agreement between the parties has expired. I can only surmise that GeoBlue and the State have not agreed on the exact Terms and Conditions that would satisfy both parties. I have gone with Travel Insured also for one off trips and you will be directed to a special policy for residents of Washington State. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nini Posted September 1, 2018 Author #5 Share Posted September 1, 2018 klfrodo- Thank you so much for response and "take action" attitude! Government- not exactly a servant of the people. I appreciate your letting me know the inside scoop from another fellow Washingtonian. I am grateful that there are other options. Happy Sailing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klfrodo Posted October 4, 2018 #6 Share Posted October 4, 2018 nini, Did you ever find anything? I went to TravelGuard website and found an annual policy for Washington residents. The policy was very limited though. Cancellation was on $2000 Medical was $10,000 Evac was $50,000 Found an Alliantz policy with the same limitations. These policies were around $400 Found a policy targeted to divers that is really nice $10,000 Cancellation $250,000 Medical and $500,000 evac The price is a little high though at about $750 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nini Posted October 5, 2018 Author #7 Share Posted October 5, 2018 klfrodo- We ended up going through the Trip Insurance Store and were able to get policies (for Washingtonians) that we felt had very good coverage: 100K medical and 1 million medical evacuation (each) plus some other additions. We paid a few dollars more to have it be our Primary coverage. Even so close to our departure date, it was very reasonable. We have other coverage (cancellation, etc,) through our credit card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klfrodo Posted October 5, 2018 #8 Share Posted October 5, 2018 klfrodo-We ended up going through the Trip Insurance Store and were able to get policies (for Washingtonians) that we felt had very good coverage: 100K medical and 1 million medical evacuation (each) plus some other additions. We paid a few dollars more to have it be our Primary coverage. Even so close to our departure date, it was very reasonable. We have other coverage (cancellation, etc,) through our credit card. Was that an annual multi trip policy? Or just a one time single trip policy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nini Posted October 6, 2018 Author #9 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Single trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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