If you’re anything like our family, you enjoy travelling. Right this very minute we are on a cruise boat on our way to the Bahamas! I caught the travel bug early in life, as a child my Father was on a touring cricket team and we were often packing up and heading to warmer locations. Before I reached the age of 10 I had travelled most of the Southern states in the US, all over Jamaica and England.
One of the things which I’ve learned about travelling is the importance of having travel insurance. It’s such a dry topic for some, perhaps you’re a person who thinks nothing will ever happen to you and can’t see the need to purchase travel insurance? Well, give me a few moments here and allow me to share a story when I was travelling and we didn’t have travel insurance, it may change your mind.
When I was 18, my Mum and I went to Mexico together to have a week at an all-inclusive resort…some serious girl time in the sun! We were having a wonderful time relaxing in the sun for the first 3 days but on the 4th day my Mum awoke looking grey and unable to get out of bed. For the whole day she was very ill, I was frightened and finally went for help at the front desk.
The only choice I had was to have a local doctor come in and check on her. The fee for this visit was $500 US dollars which I didn’t have on me. I raced back to the room to ask my Mum what we should do but she was essentially incoherent. Thankfully I found her Visa card in her wallet, I raced back to the front desk and they arranged to have the doctor visit.
I went back to our hotel room and began bathing my Mum’s head in cool cloths as I waited for the doctor. He arrived with the lady from the front desk approximately an hour later. The doctor didn’t speak English, I was stressed and scared to death so the next 15 minutes are a blur. The next thing I knew I saw the doctor pull out a HUGE needle which he gave to my Mum, the lady from the hotel explained that this was medicine that would help her recover.
By the next day my Mum was up and moving slowly around. She was aghast to read her bill, apparently it was upwards of $1500 USD for the 20 minute visit. If we’d had travel insurance this would have cost us nothing, these days I don’t take chances when travelling because it’s not worth it.
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Wouldn’t it be horrible to be one of those people you hear about whose lives are forever changed because they got sick or had an accident while on holiday because they didn’t have travel insurance?
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WIN $100 VISA Gift Card
CAA has been kind enough to provide me with 1 $100 VISA Gift Card to giveaway. Entry is simple, just fill in the form below and tell me once location you’d love to visit for March Break. This is open to Canada and ends March 14th.
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post as part of the CAA Travel Insurance program. All opinions are 100% my own.
Dubai. Dubai is always a good idea.
I would visit friends and have fun
I will go to Washington, D.C.
If I could go on a last minute March break getaway, I would go to Mexico!
Back to Florida!!
somewhere warm for sure …maybe mexico
We’d head to Florida.
I would go anywhere warm!!! Hot!! Sunny!!! As long as there was no cold I would be happy!! Mexico would be nice!!
eastern ontario
I would go to whistler with my family for some great spring skiing
Florida?
Nova Scotia for sure
Probably Cuba
I would like to take my daughter and Mum to England. My Mum was born there and moved to Canada when she married my Father. Sara and I have never been and there are so many cousins that we have never met.
I would love to go to Hawaii!
I’d love to try Florida!
florida to visit my friend who has a summer home there
Las Vegas :)
I would head to Florida and Disney!
I’d go local – Toronto or Niagara Falls (I get further away with each budget increase though)
I would go to Las Vegas!
I would go to Florida to visit my parents and to Orlanda
Disney
Cuba
Hawaii or Vegas
I would love to go to Hawaii!
I’d go to California for the first time
Cabo San Lucas!
Las Vegas
Hawaii
Oakville
I would like to go to Ottawa and skate on the Rideau canal.
Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls
Id go to downtown n go on a mini shopping spree with the kids
British Columbia
Jamaica
Disneyland
if I could i would go back to Mexico, I just had a holiday there at beginning of Feb
I’d go to Vegas with my hubby!
I would love to go to thailand
Hawaii…How lovely would that be right now?!…sigh…
Vegas!
New York City!
For a last minute trip i’d head to Niagara falls.
Somewhere HOT – if it wasn’t Mexico I would even say Florida!
I would go to a hotel in town with a pool! That sounds perfect.
Anywhere warmer than here!
We would love to go to Montreal!
Hawaii!!!
Without a doubt, I’d head to Mexico
I would go somewhere,,anywhere,,HOT where I can put my feet in the sand!!
I would love to go somewhere warm like Florida!
I would go to New York!
Disney World! *though im sure it would be ridiculously crazy at march break!
we would head to Phoenix
Probably Calgary
Somewhere warm & sunny!!!
I would take my grandkids to Disney world
Jamaica! I just Love it there. Food, Music, People. my Ultimate Bliss!
i would love to take the fam to disney if we had a spare 8 grand..but alas.. who does?
I would run away to Orlando FL.
road trip to montreal!
I would love to escape to Orlando Florida!
I would have a staycation at West Edmonton Mall if it was last minute. I like to have things well planned.
I’d fly to Honolulu, HI.
Cheers.
I would go to Hawaii =)
Sunny Florida
Southern California!
I would love to go to Mexico.
Hawaii!
After the winter we’ve had in the Niagara region, anyplace warm would be nice! My dream trip would be to Hawaii.
Cabo San Lucas Mexico
I would go to Vegas
I would go to Montreal.
New York City
I would go to Jamaica or Mexico, just get me to a HOT beach.
Arizona is where I would go.
Niagara falls
Somewhere warm and sunny .. like probably Jamaica or Cuba !!
california and go see disneyworld
Would love to go to Hawaii
I would go to California.. maybe even elope…
Id love to take my baby to New York.
New York