Columbus Direct have been a travel
insurance specialist provider for over 24 years and during that time over 15 million customers worldwide have used them and
99% of customers surveyed would recommend them.
Columbus Direct
can insure customers on Single Trip policies up to age 99 online. They offer Bronze, Silver or Gold levels of cover, but please
note that if you are aged 80 or over and planning to travel for 31 days or more, then only Gold cover is available for trips
of this duration. Annual Multi Trip cover is available for travellers up to age 74 inclusive.
Cover is available for many pre-existing medical conditions subject to screening. You can click to add
conditions under where you enter the names and dates of birth for the people on your policy. You will then be guided through
a series of questions, at the end of which you will find out whether your condition can be covered, and whether any extra
cost will apply.
Policy Summary – The value and cover will
depend on the policy you choose
Hijack cover: £1,000 -
£5,000
Abandonment: £1,000 - £7,500
24h Medical Assistance Services
If you buy online rather than through their call centre you will save 10%.
Medical Expenses: £5 million - £15 million
Cancellation
and Curtailment: £1,000 - £7,500
Baggage cover: £1,500
- £2,500
Valuables limit: £250 - £400
Cash limit: £75 - £100
Cash and Documents: £300 - £500
Cash and Documents:
£300 - £500
Personal Accident: £10,000 - £25,000
Travel Delay: £100 - £200
Personal Liability: £1 million - £3 million
Legal Expenses: £50,000
If you are going on a cruise you will need to choose the cruise options on the first page
when you get a quote online. To do this, select 'Yes' to the question 'Are you going to more than one country.
For Mediterranean cruises, Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt are covered under 'European Cruise' along with all EU
countries, however, if your cruise includes Israel you will need to select 'World Cruise' as the
destination.
Over 80 sports and activities are covered free of charge on all of Columbus Direct travel
Insurance policies including archery*, athletics*(not including marathon running), badminton, banana boating, baseball*, basketball,
billiards, body boarding, bowling, boxing training (no contact), camel riding*, canoeing, catamaran sailing**, clay pigeon
shooting, climbing (climbing wall), cricket*, croquet, curling, cycling (non-touring)*, dancing, darts, dinghy racing, dinghy
sailing, elephant ride, fell walking, flag american football, football, golf, gymnastics, helicopter ride (passenger), hiking,
horse/reindeer drawn sleigh, horse riding, horse/mule trekking, hot air ballooning (passenger), ice cricket*, jet skiing*,
kite surfing (on a lake)*, light aircraft rides (passenger), martial arts training, motorcycling under 125cc* (as a means
of transport only), netball, orienteering, paint balling*, pony trekking, pool, rambling, rifle range*, ringos, rounders,
rugby league*, rugby union*, sailing** (in-shore & off-shore), scuba diving (max. 30m), sledging, snooker, snorkelling,
snow-shoeing, soccer, softball, squash*, surfing*, swimming, swimming with dolphins, table tennis, tennis, ten-pin bowling*,
tobogganing (winter), touch football, trampolining, trekking, tubing, tug-o-war, volleyball, wake boarding, walking, walking
up Sydney Harbour Bridge, water polo, waterskiing, wheelchair basketball, windsurfing (on a lake)*.
* no Personal Liability cover
**
no Personal Liability / offshore rescue cover
