{"id":1435,"date":"2010-02-21T18:42:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2010-02-21T18:43:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T18:43:05","slug":"travel-agents-and-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Travel Agents and Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I hinted at below<\/a>, I need to whinge about travel agents and insurance.<\/p>\n

I’ll start by being fair: the agents refunded our money, but not until after a lot of hassle and stress and hard work form my very nice neigbour Helen.<\/p>\n

I’ll lay out the facts: Two Belgian commuter trains crashed<\/a>. This casued chaos, includung to the eurostar service:<\/p>\n

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Screengrab from Eurostar site, 17-02-2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You may like to note that paragraph:<\/p>\n

\nWe therefore strongly advise travellers between the UK and Brussel (sic) to cancel or postpone their journey\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I called our travel insurance co, and they suggested that there may<\/b> be a way to claim for the accomodation- Eurostar were refunding travel costs.<\/p>\n

Their story changed the next day. Apparently, this counts as ‘disinclination to travel’ which is not covered.<\/p>\n

I’m frankly shocked, though not that surprised, that when the Foreign Office refers to Eurostar’s advice, which is not to travel, that the insurance company say we must travel, then if<\/i> we suffer a 12 hour plus delay or cannot reach the destination they will pay.<\/p>\n

Strikes me as irresponsible, and double standards- we choose not to place ourselves in a risky situation they choose to not pay out. Still, that’s insurance for you, the fetid bastards.
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\nEvil Overlord<\/a> 21: An eternal rainy Sunday in Bracknell, with all of the pubs shut and no TV and cinema for the insurance industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I hinted at below, I need to whinge about travel agents and insurance. I’ll start by being fair: the agents refunded our money, but not until after a lot of hassle and stress and hard work form my very nice neigbour Helen. I’ll lay out the facts: Two Belgian commuter trains crashed. This casued … Continue reading Travel Agents and Insurance<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil-overlord","category-life","category-public-transport","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}