In the Midwest, most cars don’t have the tires turned on hills, at all! Perhaps not part of driving school? S cautioned me when in San Diego that I could get ticketed for not turning the tires appropriately when parked in his residential neighborhood.
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We had the issues when we flew into Munich in December. The passport officer was very frustrated with the system.
In that Amazing Race show, isn’t one of the tasks to drive somewhere with a provided vehicle, where the vehicle has a manual transmission and/or uses diesel fuel and needs refueling to get to the destination?
I’ve read conflicting information so I am hoping you guys can clarify–if we have a flight from the USA to MLE, but has a layover in LHR, so we still need that new entry visa into the UK if it is just a layover and we are not planning to leave the airport? Thanks so much!!
If you are staying on airside and not having to go through the passport control to connect your next flight then you shouldn’t need a visa with a US passport. I am assuming you are booked on the same ticket and therefore do not need to pick up your luggage.
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My understanding is that you need a transit visa but you should be able to confirm that with your air carrier.
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I read that you do need the visa, but that was a few months ago so do check. At that time the visa had just started and everyone was very confused.
So here’s a thought. We are cancelling an Africa safari that I’d bought trip insurance for. Instead, we are planning a trip to Europe earlier in the year. I was looking over the insurance policy, because we do have “cancel for any reason” as part of the policy, and we are taking a small loss on the cancellation, so why not file for reimbursement.
When I look at the policy, it looks like you can change the destination and the dates. So…does that sound right? I could just change the policy to cover my new trip, even though it’s on a different continent in a different month? I’m assuming that I can’t both utilize the policy to cover our small cancellation fees and then change the trip, but it would likely be more valuable to change it to our new trip.
I don’t know the details of what you purchased, but I once transferred a policy for cancelled airfare to another trip.
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I just looked it up online, and it appears that you can change the policy quite extensively, as long as you haven’t left on your trip or made a claim. It will be interesting to see if I get any money back, also, since it’s a cheaper trip.
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I would call the company and find out the details. IIRC the pricing is based on the location you are going in the length of time of the trip not just the overall cost of your trip.
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It looks like I can just type in the details and it will give me a new price and adjust everything online. I don’t have the details yet, though. I think it’s got to be cheaper, Europe as opposed to Africa, a little bit shorter along with 1/3 of the cost. Would be awesome to get some of that $3200 back, it was an expensive policy (though it did include cancel for any reason).
Are you keeping the airfare cost out of the calculation? Double check if your airline has reimbursement options separate from trip insurance (aren’t there regulations/policies for international delays/cancellations?) and also check your credit card for policies on travel delay. In some cases you may not want to include the cost of your airfare.
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I’m definitely am not including the cost of our airfare. I usually make only refundable reservations, so I can keep checking the airfare, and if it goes down, I can repurchase it. Thankfully I did that for our Africa trip. Those tickets were really expensive.
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Aha, so the final word as far as the travel insurance. Online, they let me go through the process to change the trip. It was looking like over a $2400 refund, yay! When I pushed the button, nope, can’t lower the trip cost (which is what generated the high premium). So they’ll let me change everything else, but price is the same, even though our new trip cost 10K less per person. Oh well, at least it’s not a total loss.
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@busdriver11 i think this is one of those times when I would want to speak directly with customer service. And maybe even a supervisor.
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I could call them, if you think it will help. But the explanation it gave was that you had to decrease the trip cost within 14 days of purchasing the policy, and it’s been over a month for me. It’s clear and I don’t think I have any claim to ask for an exemption. I’m just late on everything. Late buying the trip insurance, so I was stuck with an expensive one for pre-existing conditions, and late to change to a different trip. It’s my own fault.
Except Ebola wasn’t on your radar screen until last week…
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True. However, I definitely messed up by waiting so long to purchase trip insurance that I was limited to just one expensive policy that covered pre-existing conditions. But I learned my lesson. Hopefully others can learn too-purchase your trip insurance (usually) 14 days after your first deposit if you want coverage for pre-existing conditions!
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Would it be less costly to just make your claim on this policy. Or will that mean you lose the whole amount you paid for the policy?
IOW, it might be cheaper to cancel this altogether and not transfer to your new trip, and then book your new trip and buy a new policy immediately for that trip.
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