Canadian Cancellation Insurance-Best place to buy???

[honeybeesmom]

Hello, we just booked our cruise and I was wondering where the best place to buy trip cancellation from in Canada? Anyone with any suggestions,I would appreciate your feedback. Thank so much!

 

[kiford]

We usually just purchase from CAA (I believe it's through Aetna) and get trip cancellation, trip interruption, and medical. DH can purchase similar insurance (except for cancel-for-any-reason) through both his Amex and Visa and we found it to be relatively similar cost. We've only purchased cancel for any reason this time because we're going to Italy with friends and I wasn't entirely sure if they were going to be able to commit and we had to purchase non-refundable first class flight tickets on short notice before the price went up (which it did the next day by nearly double). Normally we don't do cancel for any reason but it didn't cost much extra this time.

 

[FigmentSpark]

I'm a CAA member, so I used them... got a 10% discount.

 

[Aby]

Now that Costco in Canada sells trip insurance, we've found them significantly cheaper than CAA with better coverage, by about 1/3-1/2. Had to make a medical claim once and it was super easy and I had my money back in a flash!

Aby

 

[honeybeesmom]

Thanks you all for your suggestions. Will definitely price them out!

 

[Canadian Girl]

I used Blue Cross for trip cancellation insurance for my 2015 TA. I have medical from work but had no idea Blue Cross sold other kinds. I remember it was cheaper than CAA.

 

[mevelandry]

Check with your credit card to see if you already have some kind of coverage. Ours have travel insurance included (medical, interruption and cancellation).

 

[Toy Story Fan]

We used World Nomads. It was very reasonably priced compared to all the others I found. We were only looking for trip cancellation and interruption as we have medical coverage, but had to get a package with medical.

 

[gilsan]

We use the insurance from our credit card.

 

[honeybeesmom]

Thanks everyone, will check out all the above posted ideas for the best price.
Much appreciated!

 

[lizzyb]

Our credit card has that insurance when you book the trip with that card. That is what we are using.

 

[hardis5]

We use Desjardines for medical but know they always offer trip insurance as well as one of the options as well.

 

[pangyal]

We just signed up with CoverMe (Manulife). Their annual multi-trip pricing is about the same as we were quoted for a single trip by other providers, so hopefully this will be a good choice. We also get coverage through credit cards, but I like to make payments with different cards for US travel depending on the exchange rate (I have a US Visa that I use if the CDN$ is really sucky), and I like the flexibility of not having to put deposits and payments all on one card.

 

[hcox31]

Like others said, check your credit card. Ours is RBC avion and you get insurance for any travel booked on that card. Plus my work benefits carry insurance with them too.