Mind the Gap Year - Travel and gap year insurance reviewed
Mind the Gap Year
Mind the Gap Year offers specialist cover for those looking for backpacking and gap year travel insurance
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Mind the Gap Year now offers travel insurance through their sister company MPI Brokers
What we like:
- Wide cover for activities, and policyholders can, with very few exceptions, undertake them on the spur of the moment.
- Offer good support services for travellers such as translation services and hazard notification
- Long experience in this field
- Good working abroad cover - again useful if, say, the policyholder needs to supplement their funds by working on a farm. Manual work is excluded from backpacking policies from most other companies
What we are not so keen on:
- More difficult to compare as they are not on comparison sites
- The website is a bit clunky and takes a bit of getting used to.
What's covered
Their Adventures policy will cover travellers up to the age of 69. Can be extended to cover winter sports as well. The company offer a comprehensive list of those activities which can be covered.
Travel Insurance Covering Working Abroad
The policy does covers most forms of work, whether paid or voluntary, although with some reduction of cover if the work is offshore (other than water-sports), outside higher than 6 metres above the ground, underground, or it uses chainsaws. There is no Personal Liability Cover as this should be covered by an employer.
Additional Benefits
The policy offers some worthwhile additional benefits:
- All policyholders can register with Red24, and obtain daily e-mail updates for them and their parents / loved ones detailing hazards in the region, so they can be avoided.
- Standard policyholders can access an advice line which will give personalised advice about their plans.
- There is a translation service, where for the cost of a UK landline call, policyholders can be connected to an interpretor and have a three way conversation with the foreign language speaker (standard policyholders).
- Discounts on related products (VISA services and Travel Safety Training courses).
- Whilst cover stops immediately an economy policyholder returns to the UK, a standard policyholder can return up to 3 times. In addition return to the UK is allowed in the case of a family bereavement.
Pre-existing Medical Conditions
Exclusions apply if policyholders have pre existing conditions - if this is the case call the company.
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This content was last reviewed on 18/10/2021