More on Insurance

My skiing ‘accident’ at Christmas (see earlier post) and recent articles in the UK press has focussed my mind on the subject of ski insurance!!!

I currently have insurance with American Express. They seem to provide good cover but one thing I have never checked was whether I could take multiple ski trips on the insurance I held with them

A quick call to the American Express insurance help-line gave me the answer!

It appears I can ski 240 days per year on my insurance, but only in 120 day blocks! Two-hundred and forty days! One hundred and twenty days blocks! Wow! Yikes!

Now, 120 days is 4 months… How many ski areas around the world are open for 120 days per year….. Not that many! Off the top of my head I know Killington in Vermont, USA, comes close. Where else could I go?

And another question these figures raise is – how much would it cost to ski 8 months of a year?

The mind boggles!

Some other insurance providers are ski-insurance.co.uk, Columbus, ebooker, Flexicover, and travel-insurance-online.com, however, I have no idea if their terms compare with American Expresses.