Assistance while travelling

One benefit my clients are always surprised to learn is the wealth of benefits available to them just a phone call away while traveling with travel insurance. Beyond simply providing you financial coverage in the event of a financial loss, they also provide some of the following benefits:

• Medical Assistance:
  • Finding a doctor, dentist or medical facility
  • Paying or guaranteeing your hospital bill
  • Monitoring your care, as well as being the point of contact for your family and doctor back home
• In-Destination Assistance
  • Destination information
  • Emergency language translation
  • Replacing lost travel tickets
  • Replacing lost passports and other travel documents
  • Getting flight information
  • Changing your flight, new flight booking
  • Hotel booking in the event of trip interruption
• Other assistance:
  • Getting emergency cash
  • Delivering emergency messages back home
• Emergency Medical Transport
  • Arranging for emergency evacuation to a hospital or clinic
  • Arranging to get you back home
  • Bring family member to you in the event of prolonged hospitalization
  • Getting your children back home to other family members

Beyond these those services, you also may have access to 24-hour concierge service, Concierge associates can assist you with many requests from the routine to the extraordinary. The following are types of services you can contact us for assistance with:

• Restaurant and local event information
• Emergency and after hours hotel information and reservation
• Golf tee times, information, referrals and reservations

As you can see services can extend beyond simply emergency or financial assistance. The proceeding was an example of services available through Allianz, one of our travel insurance providers. For additional information, please contact me at www.CruiseHolidays.com