If you buy a Post Office Travel Insurance policy on or after 6 September 2020 it will provide all of this coronavirus cover if your destination is safe to visit when you go:

-Cancellation within 14 days of your trip should you test positive

-Curtailment if you test positive for COVID-19 at your outward departure point and are not allowed to go on your trip

-Curtailment if a close relative tests positive and passes away while you’re there

-Emergency medical and additional expenses while away, including getting you home

-Curtailment if you test positive on arrival (Economy, Standard and Premier levels of cover only)

-Curtailment if you test positive for the virus or are medically quarantined for 24+ hours whilst in destination (Economy, Standard and Premier levels of cover only)

-Missed departure or other delays while waiting for late test results (Standard and Premier levels of cover only, you must arrive at your departure point within the time stated, and the testing is to take place at your departure point).

To make sure you’re in no doubt what’s covered, check the answers to common questions about coronavirus cover and the full policy wording for more details.

And remember, your cover won’t count if you travel against Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) advice on international travel and Government guidance on travel within the UK. So please check regularly as it can change at short notice.

How we travel has changed a lot in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Lots of people are now considering a ‘staycation’ in Britain rather than travelling abroad. If you’re among them, and it’s safe to travel in the UK, you can get your trip covered now with Post Office Travel Insurance.

We provide cover whether you’re taking a break in the UK or going on holiday overseas. It could provide welcome reassurance if your luggage or personal belongings are lost, stolen or damaged while you’re staying away from home in Britain. You’re also covered if you have to cancel or cut short your trip in some circumstances, as set out in the policy. A two-night minimum stay is required for Annual policies.

The UK Government provides guidance on travel 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is to enable you to understand any restrictions, safety issues and quarantines information that may be in place for the destination that you are travelling to. For each individual country the FCDO will list if travel is permitted or not. We recommend that you check the latest advice regularly as from time to time it can change, sometimes at short notice. If you travel against this advice the cover your policy provides won’t be valid. Check the latest on the FCDO site or read where can I go on holiday guide now.

Post Office Travel Insurance can cover you for a single trip of up to 365 days*, or multiple trips** in a single year, anywhere in the UK or abroad. We also offer backpacker cover > for a single trip of up to 18 months.

The type and level of cover provided depends on the policy type and options you choose, but can include cover for cancellation, curtailment and abandonment of your trip, emergency medical expenses, lost, stolen or damaged baggage, lost, stolen or damaged passports or personal money, personal accidents and liability, legal protection.

We’ve also enhanced our COVID-19 travel insurance and cover for other forms of coronavirus for polices bought on or after 6 September 2020. Find more details here.

Optional additional cover available includes Gadget Cover,  Additional Sports and Activities Cover, Natural Catastrophe/Terrorism Cover, Enhanced Travel Disruption Cover and Excess Waiver, plus 31-, 45- or 60-day trip extensions (on Annual Multi-Trip only).

Winter Sports Cover is compulsory for Winter Sports trips and Cruise Cover is compulsory if you’re going on a cruise. It’s important to check the different travel insurances available, and their various options and add-ons, to ensure you’ll be sufficiently covered for your trip and all you’ll do on it.

Every 36 seconds, someone buys Post Office Travel Insurance. This is based on our travel insurance sales in 2019 to 2020. Post Office is an award-winning travel insurance company, having won Best Travel Insurance Provider Gold award each year from 2006 to 2015 and the Silver award in 2016 to 2018 at the British Travel Awards and winner of the Best Online Travel Insurance Provider at the Your Money Awards in 2019.

Our Premier and Elite cover is 5 Star Defaqto Rated. Defaqto is a financial information business, helping financial institutions and consumers make better informed decisions.

We have a range of cover options available to suit lots of different holidays, so you can choose the cover that suits you best. We’re there for our customers when they need us the most; since we launched travel insurance in 2007, we’ve paid out over £161 million in claims.

Having travel insurance is a worthwhile purchase for anyone going abroad for their holidays. Even in relatively safe locations such as central Europe, a myriad of things can go wrong. Flights can be delayed. Airlines can lose your luggage.

Thieves often operate in tourist areas. And you could eat something that disagrees with you anywhere in the world.

We hope that none of these events happen to you. But if they do, you could be out of pocket – and with emergency medical problems it could be by tens or even hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Holiday insurance may be able to help avoid some of this risk. It’s a way to insure for travel you, those travelling with you and your belongings.

If your luggage is lost, holiday insurance may not be able to replace it, but the payout from a claim can help recover any costs that you have had to pay to get temporary alternatives.

In particular, the medical cover outside of the EU offered by insurance is a necessity.

Within the EU, you may think that an Ehic, or its replacement the Ghic, can cover all your medical needs. This isn’t true. Some of the most expensive medical services, such as repatriation, aren’t covered by the Ehic or Ghic. They are limited to health cover and won’t help at all with things like cancellation, loss or theft. As of 1 January 2021, the Ehic will no longer provide access to healthcare for UK nationals travelling to Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.

Even if you’re staying in the UK for your break, having holiday insurance will provide cover for lost, damaged or stolen possessions such as baggage, and cancellation, curtailment or delay to your trip in some circumstances.

Post Office Travel Insurance includes a level of baggage cover as standard to protect against loss, damage or theft. The level of cover depends on the policy you choose and may not extend to all of the devices you take away with you.

Gadget Cover is an optional add on you can buy at any time to extend the standard baggage cover. It will cover mobile/smart phones, tablet computers, laptops and other computers, smart watches, satellite navigation systems (GPS), personal digital assistants (PDAs), drones, games (including handheld) consoles, all accessories for these items, plus wearable activity trackers. See the policy wording for full terms.

Yes, we do. We’ve partnered with Student Beans to offer a discount to students. To claim it, you’ll need to either register for a Student Beans account (to verify your student status) or log in with your existing account here. You’ll be given a unique code, which you’ll need to enter into the promotion Code box that appears when getting your travel insurance quote. The discount will be taken off your quote total.