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Trip is Cancelled: Is a Refund Due?

Trip is Cancelled? When Diane Gottlieb’s tour of Iraq is cancel, the tour operator offers her a voucher for a future trip. She wants a refund. Can she get her $7,590 back? FAQ Of Trip is Cancelled Q: I paid $7,590 for a Modern Mesopotamia tour to Iraq through MIR Corporation for last fall. l also […]

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Travel Insurance for that Pricey Trip May Come with Caveats

Travel Insurance for Pricey Trip for protecting a sizable trip investment may offer you a chance to cancel for any reason … but what happens when that “any reason” day comes?  Marianne is an upright and honest nurse who want to travel with some like-mind women on a specializes and theme trip through Scotland and […]

Credit Card Company Reneges After Vacation Rental Cancelation 

Credit Card Company By Christopher Eliiott When Warren Yue cancels a vacation rental for a church retreat before the pandemic, he initially gets a refund from his Chase Sapphire Reserve card. But then it backtracks, deducting half his money. What gives? Question: I paid for a vacation rental in Oceanside, Calif., for our church fellowship […]

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Travel Insurance that Passes the COVID Test

As travel seeks a way to ramp up during this precarious time, travel insurance concerns and interest have skyrocketed and the coverage is not always clear. This scene, for instance, is a familiar one of late and could happen to you. Say, you booked a trip – an expensive trip — It involved a cruise […]

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Trip Insurance Trip-ups? Surprising Finds

  By Christopher Elliott Trip insurance with a preexisting condition? Refund on a nonrefundable ticket? What’s possible might surprise you. Connie Matlin wants to do the impossible: buy travel insurance for what she thinks is an uninsurable trip. “My family and I would like to travel to Europe this summer,” explains Matlin, a financial planner […]

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Travel Insurance: What Boomers Need to Know

Baby Boomers continue to drive trends in travel, perhaps the biggest is in the travel insurance category, which sees $3.5 billion purchases  in the U.S. annually and is expected to grow more in 2018.