cheap travel insurance, travel insuranceAny kind of travel or vacation should be nothing but stress free. Is this how it usually unfolds? No, but there are ways to minimize the problems of getting from point A to point B. I’m talking about cheap travel insurance. While I wouldn’t ever get it while traveling within the states, it is key to have when visiting places outside of our borders. A friend recently came back from Costa Rica. He studied abroad there while in college and took some time to visit friends native to the area after saving up the cash. His initial trip down turned into a nightmare. Since he was studying abroad, his suitcases basically had his life in them. Two of the four bags were lost in transit. The Costa Rican airport recovered one of them but not the second.

Missing dress shirts, socks, boxers and random nick-nacks, he had no one to turn to but the school and airport officials. Bureaucracy made everything move at snail’s pace. He ended being paid off but not in an amount high enough to justify the loss. Cheap travel insurance can cover these instances.