Pity that I don't live in Toronto. Anyway the place is far too cold for me!Agreed - in our case we stopped at step 3 as our travel insurance covers everything (and much more) than DAN does.
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Pity that I don't live in Toronto. Anyway the place is far too cold for me!Agreed - in our case we stopped at step 3 as our travel insurance covers everything (and much more) than DAN does.
Agreed - in our case we stopped at step 3 as our travel insurance covers everything (and much more) than DAN does.
We use a Blue Cross product available in eastern Canada called the "Annual Package Plus" which includes Medical, Trip Cancellation and Trip Interruption coverage. I find their website confusing to use... Annual travel health insurance - Ontario Blue Cross .Which insurance do you use specifically and how much approx. per year is it?
@outofofficebrb you said that your trip insurance covers more than DAN, but are you comparing it to the DAN dive medical insurance, or to the separate DAN trip insurance? I thought the DAN trip insurance was very comparable to the dive assure plans...
Missed connection insurance of the type offered to cruise ship travelers might cover the same thing as a Liveaboard Rider. As always, one would have to read the fine print.
I welcome your info! Travel insurance is a huge part of the mix.Yes, it would seem it would cover for the missed connection. The nice thing about the rider is that it also covers medical/weather inability to dive, dive accidents by other passengers that causes cancellation in dives, mechanical breakdowns that the operator won't reimburse for (including compressor issues or boat itself or any reason that you would have to abandon ship for)...and less likely but the operator going out of business. The rider isn't very much. Dive Assure offers the option to purchase travel insurance without the dive accident - you have to call instead of doing it online though. I spoke with someone on FB who recently had to make a claim and it worked out well.
Sorry to the OP - I wasn't meaning to hijack the thread and throw in some travel insurance into the mix.