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We review Essential Travel - offering Travel Insurance, Hotels, Airport Parking and Car Hire Insurance
Essential Travel's core business is online travel insurance, but they have diversified to the degree that they now try to look after a travellers total needs. Customers can now arrive at the airport, park, stay overnight, insure their trip and arrange both their car hire rental and insurance at their destination all through Essential Travel!
Background
Established in 2003 Essential Travel now insure over 350,000 people as they travel around the globe.
They have invested well in their website which is easy to use, and won them the Travolution award as best Travel Insurance Website 2009.
Products
Travel Insurance - Range of travel insurance - single trip, long stay / backpackers and annual policies, with or without winter sport. Spectrum of policies from budget to superior enabling policyholders to ensure they have the right cover for them. They are on the moneymaxim travel insurance panel, so its easy to compare their cover with other insurers. Do offer online screening for pre-existing medical conditions.
Airport Hotels - use one of the largest search engines to find deals and guarantee they won't be beaten on price - in our testing they are right, although other companies do use the same search engine and therefore will have the same prices as Essential.
Airport Lounges - its easy to understand the growing popularity of airport lounges given the ever increasing congestion in departures. Be aware of the 'rules' that apply (some restrict children or large single sex groups, and many have a smart casual dress code. Essential offer airport lounges in 20 UK airports,
Airport Parking - over car parking at airports across the country - Broad range of suppliers, although for best results combine with a search on Holiday Extras to get widest choice available.
Car Hire Excess Insurance - Offering both excess insurance and full CDW (Collision Damage Waiver) / SLI (Supplementary Liability Insurance). Read full details in our guide to Essential Travel Car Hire Excess Insurance
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