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Originally Posted by UniPol
My wife and I are currently travelling around Italy and we took out travel insurance with our medical provider, namely Medibank Private as in the past. My wife who is far more intelligent than me makes all the travel plans and she looks into these arrangements very carefully so I trust that this was the best option for us. I know my wife looked into the "free" option with our bank which is Citibank however it looked a bit too good to be true from memory.
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Yes - the too-good-to-be-true factor does come into play. How can it be that if I pay say a $150 surcharge on buying tickets from Flight Centre, depending on the card, I can get effectively the same travel insurance as paying anywhere for $900 to over a $1000 buying it direct?
I'd already paid for mine before this discussion came up at the other forum, but took comfort that it really didn't cost me anything as I suspend my private health insurance while overseas (since I don't suffer any consequence from the medicare surcharge).
Where are you in Italy?
Regards,
Renato