My family's travel plans this summer include going to Alaska on a
Disney cruise! Right now, I'm trying to wrap my head around all of the excursion options.
About the Med cruise next year, I just spent several hours yesterday figuring out trip insurance. Booked the cruise on 1/26 so knew I had only had two weeks (some companies allow three weeks) to figure out the insurance stuff. One of my twins has asthma which can get dicey, so we need to get the pre-existing condition waiver and many companies we looked at only give you a short window to decide after you make your deposit payment. I procrastinated and procrastinated until last night.
I ended up using the tripinsurancestore.com to compare policies and we went with Travel Guard Gold. The kids were free and we also managed to squeeze in under the deadline for my DH to be able to cancel (please no) for a work related reason with the proper work documentation. That was a nice perk with that policy -- it wasn't a cancel for any reason thing though as that was a way more expensive option. We purchased a policy for the four of us for the 12 nights and some pre and post nights too for $299. We are allowed to add in the airfare amount (or if we use frequent flyer miles we can add in the amount for fees and such) and the hotel amounts to the policy once we know them later on and they'll adjust the policy and probably charge us a little more. So all good for us to have that peace of mind if, heaven forbid, something goes seriously wrong before or after we cross the Atlantic. It was way cheaper than going with Disney's insurance ($1060 yowza).
The people at that website when I called with some specific questions about a few different policies were very helpful! So an FYI to anyone reading your trip report who might be thinking about getting trip insurance! You can get insurance after two weeks, but I needed that time frame because of the pre-existing issue. It is also useful to search trip insurance on the main board and lots of threads will pop up.
Beth