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About UK Holiday Insurance
UK holiday insurance is designed to cover you and your family for holidays taken within the United Kingdom. The same as international travel insurance, UK holiday insurance will pay for medical treatment, cancellation and holiday curtailment as well as protecting your baggage.
But why do you need UK holiday insurance? Well, if you're travelling to Scotland for example and a member of your family falls ill or has an accident that requires urgent hospital treatment and an operation. This can be dealt with in the local Scottish hospital, but what if the condition requires a period of in-patient stay? Are you and you family going to be able to stay in Scotland after your holiday term expires or will you have to return to work and your children return to school, etc.?
If you expect the NHS to provide a medical team and ambulance to convey the patient to your local hospital then think again, as NHS trusts are not permitted to travel outside of their region. You will need to pay for a private ambulance and medical staff to accompany your injured family member to your home town so that the hospital treatment can be carried out locally. If the patient in unable to travel by road then you may need to charter an Air Ambulance from Scotland to your home town. Needless to say the costs of a private ambulance or air ambulance are not cheap.
UK holiday insurance can help you to pay for the ambulance or air ambulance right back to your home town hospital door to door.
UK holiday insurance will also pay if you are forced to cancel your UK holiday at the last minute due to a close member of your family suffering a problem or for a genuine reason that prevents you from going on your UK holiday, without having to lose your holiday deposit.
UK holiday insurance will also pay for the sudden curtailment of your UK holiday should you have to return home due to unforeseen problems.
What if you lose your luggage whilst on holiday in Blackpool for example? Once again, UK holiday insurance can step in to help pay for your loss. Disasters can happen at any time and at any place and you never know when illness will strike. UK holiday insurance can offer you the peace of mind of protecting you and your family, as it does when you take your family abroad, so why not let UK holiday insurance offer you the same protection for any UK holidays as well?
For example, skiing in Scotland can be as dangerous as skiing in the Alps and accidents can happen in Scotland just the same. If you're planning an activity holiday in the UK then you need to consider UK holiday insurance to protect you.
UK holiday insurance is just as valid for holidays taken in the UK as it is for international travel insurance. It is available as UK trip travel insurance as well as for activity holidays and winter sports. If you're travelling on holiday within the UK then you will need UK holiday insurance.