Travel insurance

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What is travel insurance?

Travel insurance is there to help protect you while you’re away from home, and our travel cover can help you with all kinds of problems and quandaries, from urgent medical assistance to replacing a lost passport.

How we travel is as unique and individual as our fingerprints. Some people plan precisely and some float free, some pack lightly, while others carry enough to furnish a small palace. There’s no right way and no wrong way – just your way. But, whichever way you travel, there’s always the risk of something unexpected trying to trip you up. When you’re covered, we can be there to help you back on your feet.

It’s important to remember that travel insurance doesn’t cover you for any event, incident, or circumstance that you knew about – or could reasonably be expected to have known about – when you bought your policy. It’s there to back you up when life throws something unexpected your way.

Get started by choosing from Annual Multi Trip cover or Single Trip cover and tailor it by adding extra upgrades like baggage or travel disruption cover.

Benefits of travel insurance

Health comes first

Feel secure in the knowledge that you’re covered by up to £10m of emergency medical treatment

View your policy on the move

Your policy is at your fingertips, access your plan or make a claim at anytime with our MyAviva app

Keep everyone covered

Get protection for the whole gang by adding up to eight friends or family members to your policy

Please see What does our travel insurance cover? or policy document for further details on what is and isn’t covered.

Why do I need travel insurance?

Like all insurance, travel insurance offers peace of mind in case something unexpected or unforeseen happens.

Having an accident, losing your passport or being delayed can be expensive and tricky to deal with if you’re abroad. You might need legal help too, such as if you’re injured during your trip and it wasn’t your fault. Even if you simply fall ill while you’re away, it’s reassuring to know that we cover emergency medical and dental treatment.

You might already have travel cover, for example, it’s included with some credit cards and current accounts. But before you travel, check exactly what’s covered. Does it cover the places you’re going and activities you’ll be doing?

Some cover is optional, like cover for your belongings or for travel disruption, so make sure that you have the cover that you need when making travel plans.

What our travel insurance doesn’t cover you for is any event or incident that you knew about – or could reasonably be expected to know about – when taking out your policy or booking your trip. That could be something that’s already happened, or is going to happen, and can be reasonably expected to affect your travel plans.