While travel insurance can protect your vacation, be sure to read the fine print -- disasters may not be covered.
"If you are making a financial investment, you never know what's going to happen between now, and when you take your trip," Walch says.
Syndicated travel columnist and consumer activist Ed Perkins says before buying read the fine print. "Most travel insurance is what they call 'named peril' insurance, which means it covers only the contingencies that are specified in the fine print," Perkins says.Ted Rossman says you may already have travel insurance through your credit card. "Even some no-annual-fee cards have these," Rossman says.
"So my wife said, I think we can go to Michael Finney, and that's what I did. So I emailed you and thank you so much for helping me out with this situation," Sanchez agrees. At our request, Airbnb looked into the rental and says the booking is covered under the extenuating circumstances policy. Sanchez got a full refund.
There is a travel insurance coverage called "cancel for any reason" -- those with that coverage are in the very best shape, but it does cost more.7OYS's consumer hotline is a free consumer mediation service for those in the San Francisco Bay Area. We assist individuals with consumer-related issues; we cannot assist on cases between businesses, or cases involving family law, criminal matters, landlord/tenant disputes, labor issues, or medical issues..
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