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Insurance guidance? Covac,etc? #274048
01/23/2022 03:54 PM
01/23/2022 03:54 PM
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Our resort RCI points are refundable/insured. Our JetBlue tixx can cancel at anytime w/o penalty w/ full refund.

Half our party is vax w/boost, one kid vax, no boost and the other no vax (That all sounds like a Starbucks order...LOL.) but both had c19 in Nov.

So I was debating trip insurance & COVAC Global piqued our interest bc if we did get a positive test before our return flight to the US, could get home in a few days as opposed to 10 quarantine. This appealed to me as Im in healthcare and in my state, can return to work if symptom free within 5 days. Otherwise it seems that trip insurance stands to refund non refundable costs.

BUT.....COVAC GLOBAL changed its MO, as I suspected it would with the holiday surge. Their model did not seem sustainable...https://thepointsguy.com/news/covac-global-issues/ and of course people abused the system.

Im going to tinker on insuremytrip but is there other insurance I should be looking at as far as we test positive there besides the mandatory SXXM insure?

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Re: Insurance guidance? Covac,etc? [Re: the captain] #274096
01/24/2022 02:19 PM
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What's COVAC GLOBAL ?

Re: Insurance guidance? Covac,etc? [Re: irina] #274098
01/24/2022 02:49 PM
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Here's the link in his post, which is what he is referring to. His link isn't working, for whatever reason.

Link

Otherwise, I don't know anything about it.


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Re: Insurance guidance? Covac,etc? [Re: Carol_Hill] #274099
01/24/2022 02:59 PM
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Thanks Carol.
Evacuation insurance.
Doh.me!
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Re: Insurance guidance? Covac,etc? [Re: the captain] #274104
01/24/2022 04:25 PM
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Sorry the link didn't activate. But back to my question, Ive never gotten any travel insurance before & the thought of evacuation insurance made sense to me, hence covac global. But since my flights and RCI points are refundable, does it make sense to get ANY travel insurance? And is are there other evac insurances perhaps some of you have bought?

Re: Insurance guidance? Covac,etc? [Re: the captain] #274113
01/24/2022 07:23 PM
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I always buy medical evac insurance, usually through Insure My Trip, on the link here on TTOL. Medical evac per se for Covid is not as important to us as for other medical conditions, like heart attack, stroke, etc. Hopefully if we get Covid on island, it won't be severe, such that we would need medical evac. Other medical conditions are much more difficult to predict and guard against, for people of our age.


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