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Priceline Will Offer Refunds If You Lose Your Job (But Only If You Buy Trip Protection)
No need to hold a bikini car wash to pay for your vacation with the new Priceline trip protection.
What was very en vogue in the last quarter of 2008 and at the start of 2009 has suddenly become en vogue again. But we won't complain because it's actually a good thing. Priceline.com has announced it will offer a full cancellation and refund for anyone who books a trip on their site and then loses their job. From the press release:
The expanded trip protection is available for priceline.com’s vacation packages, Name Your Own Price® hotel rooms, published-price and Name Your Own Price® airline tickets, and rental cars booked as an add-on to any priceline.com travel reservation.
However, as this is part of Priceline's optional travel insurance you need to select this option in order to get a refund. But um, we hope that won't happen because we want you to keep your job! Trip protection costs as little as $16 for a flight and $5 a night for a hotel reservation.
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A Traveling Without Insurance Nightmare For Aussie Man In India
Remember how your parents pestered you about getting travel insurance before you headed off on spring break or to Europe? We admit that our own insurance coverage over the years has been hit-or-miss, but every now and again we remember why we pay for it.
This is one of those times. Recently, an Aussie tourist took an unlucky fall off a steep mountain track in India and ended up paralyzed in a hospital in New Delhi. And yes, you guessed it, this guy was traveling without any insurance, even though he was 64 years old and should have known better.
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Airline Fees: Frontier Airlines Sneakily Selling You Travel Insurance
At least other airlines admit they're hiking fees. But it seems Frontier will slip a travel insurance charge onto your ticket unless you deliberately opt out of it. Travel troubleshooter Chris Elliott has the scoop:
After finishing [a] transaction, [customer Angela Gross] discovered she had also signed up for a $10.95 insurance policy. How did that happen? A small box at the bottom of the booking screen was pre-checked, indicating she also wanted to buy the policy.
Seems pretty slimy, which is why we weren't surprised to find out that Spirit has been known to do something similar. Check those check boxes before booking, people!
Related Stories:
· Like It or Not, Airline Adds Travel Insurance [Elliott]
· Frontier Airlines: Another Fee-Friendly Carrier [Jaunted]
· Airline Fees coverage [Jaunted]
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Play "Find Foxy Brown" If You Dare
Have you seen Foxy Brown? The partially deaf New York rapper (and dine-and-ditcher) took a flight to London on June 29th. First, she delayed the flight by an hour so she could sit near her entourage. Now, she's up and vanished. According to the New York Post, she didn't even tell her lawyer where she went. The Post speculates she's laying down tracks for a new album -- or turning over a new leaf on her bad-girl reputation.
Should Foxy's probation officer have had her take out a travel insurance policy? Well, she's not considered a flight risk, but it depends whether she intended to go hang-gliding in the Cotswolds or just shopping at Harrods. Consumerist offers some situations where travel insurance might be helpful.
Related Stories:
· Foxy Stiffs Her Bill at Junior's [Jaunted]
[Photo: Gothamist.com]
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All New Sorts of Protection
When we were your age, we had to walk two miles and bike up a hill to get travel insurance. Even then, we were only covered for things like getting our leg bitten off by a wolverine. The kids are crazy these days, though, and things are changing in the insurance industry.
Cancel-for-any-cause policies are becoming more popular. These plans typically allow you to get more of your money back and with shorter advance notice, depending on the company. That means that you need not have a wolverine dilemma to cancel--perhaps you just got in a fight with your travel buddy and no longer want to spend a week cooped up together. Then again, with a sample $2000 trip for two, you could end up parting with as much as $563 if disaster strikes.
The best new policy, however, has got to be Travel Guard's Tee, Tour & Travel package. Yeah yeah, it'll cover you if your game gets rained out, but it'll also buy you $250 worth of drinks if you hit a hole in one. Now, if that covers mini-golf, we are so sold it ain't even funny.
[Photo: Pete Hindle]
Related Stories:
· Travel insurance for any woe [LAT/Mercury News]
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$5 a Month is Piece of Mind
Wow, it would be terrible to have your iPod or phone swiped while traveling.
It would be more awful to think that you had no recourse and have to shell out $300 for a new one.
Instead of that-why not insure your gadgets. Luxist [via CBS] reports that independent insurance companies are now offering coverage for iPods, Blackberries, cellphones and the like-for a mere $5 a month when tagged on to your existing homeowners rates.
Hey, better safe then sorry.
Related Stories:
· New Insurance Protects Expensive Gadgets [Luxist]
· New Insurance Will Protect Expensive Gadgets [CBS5.com]
