TRAVEL INSURANCE
PROTECT YOUR TRIP WITH OUR TRUSTED PARTNERS
We strongly encourage all travelers to obtain comprehensive travel insurance. Some of our tours also require having at least emergency medical evacuation coverage. Towards that end, we have taken the time to identify trusted insurance partners with vetted plans that make it easy for you to pick out a policy.
Coverage via TRAVEL INSURED INTERNATIONAL
Our longest relationship—since 2017 as an official partner—has been with Travel Insured International, a leading travel insurance provider with over 25 years of experience in the industry that have earned it an excellent reputation including an A+ Best Company title. Our experience with them throughout the years has been excellent, with timely, thorough responses to all our questions, and a perfect record in honoring claims for evidently covered reasons.
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In addition to meeting the emergency medical evacuation benefit noted above, their protection plans include pre-departure benefits such as Trip Cancellation and post-departure benefits such as Accident & Sickness Medical, Baggage/Baggage Delay, Missed Connection, Trip Delay and Trip Interruption. Their plans also include 24/7 Emergency Assistance Services provided via an independent organization. You can access our portal on their website here.
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If you purchase your insurance through our partner's portal, we will automatically receive your plan details, which we'll also pass on to our staff on the trip.
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Click the button above to access our portal on TII's website and fill in details to browse available plans. Alternatively, we are happy to create a custom quote for you.
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Note: If you are interested in supplemental Cancel-for-Any-Reason coverage, this is available for 21 days after initial trip deposit (a week longer than many plans)
Coverage via WANDERWELL
We also partner with Wanderwell, a certified B Corp offering coverage and advice for travel insurance that we have also been recommending to our travelers since 2017 and recently elevated to an official partnership in 2024. If you choose to purchase through Wanderwell—which you can do via our partner page here—at least 1% of your purchase premium price will be donated to the Planet Impact Fund through 1% for the Planet network.
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Like Travel Insured, they don’t overwhelm you with options, offering just a few modern, comprehensive trip protection plans designed to cover the most common travel perils related to trip cancellation, trip interruption, trip delay, travel Medical Expenses, baggage & personal effects, Emergency Medical Evacuation, and more. Plus, they’re good folks, doing good for the planet, and we personally know their CEO (he’s a great guy).
If you purchase your insurance through our partner's portal, we will automatically receive your plan details, which we'll also pass on to our staff on the trip.​
A FEW HELPFUL FYI'S ON TRAVEL INSURANCE
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Plan cost varies with age & home state, and for comprehensive plans will most directly be influenced by the amount of trip cost you insure for cancellation or trip interruption.
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While we generally recommend insuring your full trip cost for peace of mind, know that you can still get all of the on-trip comprehensive emergency, medical & travel interruption benefits on TII’s plans even by only insuring a small amount for cancellation/interruption (which will have a considerably lower cost). Wanderwell will usually present a separate on-trip-only (i.e. post departure) plan with similarly more affordable coverage.
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Reassuringly, both of our partners treat Covid-19 the same as any other illness (which is not the case with all providers, some of which have related exemptions). You can access our portal on their website here.
AN OPTIONAL SUPPLEMENT TO TRAVEL INSURANCE: MEDJET
If extra reassurance for travel may be welcome, we recently partnered with a company called MedJet in case anyone may want to supplement their travel insurance with a service that, if injury or illness were to occur during a trip, would provide and pay for hospital-to-hospital medical transfer from the country you find yourself in to the hospital of your choice at home in the United States.​​
​You can find a brief introduction to their services in this PDF. As you’ll note:
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A MedJetAssist membership for 15 days is $145 for individuals (or $250 for a family).
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Yearly MedJetAssist memberships are also available for $295 for individuals (or $399 for a family).
