If you're living on a fixed income, having
trip cancellation insurance means that you will be able to go on your trip another time without detriment to your finances.
Not exact matches
Ritz - Carlton Rewards is a Visa Infinite card, which
means it includes a wide range of travel card benefits, such as concierge services, room upgrades, and car rental and
trip cancellation insurance.
That
means you won't get some perks offered directly from Visa, such as lost baggage reimbursement,
trip cancellation insurance and some other travel - related benefits.
A
trip cancellation or interruption can
mean the loss of thousands of dollars without a travel
insurance plan with benefits for cancelling or interrupting your cruise.
There are travel
insurance plans that just offer
trip cancellation coverage, but what travelers may not realize is that just because a plan has fewer benefits doesn't
mean it will be less expensive.
What happens is that most travel
insurance consumers purchase a plan that has «
trip cancellation» and they think that it
means cancelling a
trip for any reason, at any time, and getting a full refund — no matter what.
What most travelers don't know is that pre-existing conditions are automatically excluded from travel
insurance plans, which
means that medical care,
trip cancellations, and
trip interruptions due to a pre-existing medical condition are not covered by default.
When you want a travel
insurance plan for
trip cancellation, which is what I assume you
mean by «coverage for the $ 2,500 cost of the our», and travel medical, the coverage typically comes as part of a package.
If you buy your travel
insurance, then find out you have a diagnosis that
means you'll have to cancel your
trip, that
cancellation won't be covered unless you bought pre-existing medical condition coverage.
This includes $ 4,000 for
trip cancellation, $ 5,000 for
trip interruption and $ 75,000 in secondary medical coverage (secondary coverage
means the travel
insurance will kick in if you don't have other applicable primary
insurance).
In this example of the cruise being cancelled, the traveler's felt their claim would have gone more smoothly with primary coverage for
trip cancellation, because they would not have been required to seek compensation from other sources, like another
insurance policy, the cruise company, the airline or any other
means of reimbursement.