4 Tips for Buying Pre-Existing Medical Condition Travel Insurance Coverage

According to Squaremouth.com, a site for comparing and purchasing travel insurance, many travelers are spending more money on travel insurance policies to cover pre-existing medical condition. Follow these tips to prevent four common mistakes many travelers make when buying pre-existing medical condition travel insurance.

 

Tip #1:  You Might Not Need Pre-Existing Medical Condition Travel Insurance Coverage

A variety of policies are available that cover travelers in case a pre-existing medical condition prevents them from traveling.  However, many travelers don’t realize what travel insurance providers consider to be a pre-existing condition. Each provider has a look-back period to determine if a condition is pre-existing.

For example, some of Travel Guard’s policies have a 180-day look-back period. If someone’s condition has been stable during the 180 days prior to the effective date, Travel Guard will not consider that person’s condition to be pre-existing.

 

Tip #2:  Pre-Existing Medical Condition Travel Insurance Coverage for a Non-Traveling Family Member

Some travelers buy travel insurance to protect them in case an ill family member’s condition worsens and they are unable to take the trip. Nearly half of the travel insurance providers will require travelers to buy pre-existing coverage even though they do not have the pre-existing condition.

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London Insider Tips on Things to Do and How to Save Money in London

by Alyce M. Jacoby

Guest Blogger

Ceremony of the Keys in LondonThe first London insider tip is how to avoid jet lag when traveling to London.   Look into leaving the States on a morning flight.  I know American Airlines has morning flights out of both New York and Chicago; United out of Dulles.  The beauty of that is that you travel during the day and arrive in the evening; go to bed; and wake the next morning refreshed with no jet lag!

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Cheap Capsule Hotels in Japan

by Juan Vives

Capsule Hotel in KyotoJapan is expensive, and capsule hotels are everywhere.  Most capsule hotels are frequented by salary workers.  In order to avoid long commutes, they stay in these cheap hotels for the evening.  If you want to save money on hotels, this may be for you when you visit Japan.  Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto are expensive destinations.

Even if you are not looking for cheap hotels when in Japan, I still believe you should give it a try for a night. It is a unique experience!  Most capsule hotels around Japan are not fancy accommodations. The coffin-sized bedrooms are comfortable but there is nothing to dream about inside them.  That’s, of course, if you can actually fall asleep!

This travel writer had a chance to spend a night in a capsule hotel in Kyoto.  Not your typical capsule hotel. I paid around $50 for an evening in the middle of a city where any well known hotel will charge above $200. If you just need a clean decent place to sleep for a few hours before you continue your adventures into the city, then you may have found your dream capsule place.

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