Safeguard against hellish holidays

Accidents, lost passports, missed flights, damaged baggage – all these and more are reasons why having travel insurance is a good idea

Sarah had imagined all the holiday clichés: sipping cocktails by the pool, making sandcastles, eating ice-cream, swimming in sun-dappled waters and catching up on some long overdue reading.

She had not banked on a 36-hour delay, then being stuck with a grumpy five-year-old in a crowded, stuffy airport, followed by a trip to the hospital when that same five-year-old fell and hit his head on day three of an already shortened trip. Now where ...