Personal Finance

Getting yourself travel insurance is the ticket to a stress-free holiday

Too many people are playing with fire by not taking out cover when they head off on their summer holidays

Insurance can offer cover for delays, cancellations and rescheduled flights. The best time to take it out is when you are booking your trip. Picture: Getty

Delays, cancellations and rescheduled flights are just the tip of the trip-stress iceberg.

I recently heard a travel story so nightmarish I physically winced.

A friend of a friend of a friend is in the US on a J1 visa, like a lot of 20-somethings at present. Some accident or other happened, an ambulance was called and she spent somewhere in the region of 24 hours in hospital.

A small number of scans and a ...