Travel Insurance America/ USA

America is the bane of travel insurance. If you are elderly the cost of travel insurance to America can be prohibitive - especially if you have medical conditions and are wishing to travel to America..

Travel insurance to 'America' is normally the highest rating  that insurers use for travel Insurance. Please note, however, that this may not just refer to the 'USA' and you should be aware that the following countries MAY also be rated at the same rate. If you are in doubt or would like us to look for a quotation for one of these countries Please contact us on 0844 8262617 or, if you get no reply, our Gateshead office on 0844 8262618.

• United States of America (USA)

• Canada

• Mexico

• Countries in the Caribbean

If you want a quote for travel insurance America  then follow travel insurance America for our main quotation page - you can buy travel insurance online. (we can quote for any age, including over 65, 70, 75 or 80 - in fact we have no upper age limit for single trips and 85 for annual multi trip insurance)

Visa Requirements

The Electronic System for Travel Authorization requires every traveler to the USA to provide details of name, gender, date of birth, address where they are staying in the USA, passport number and a declaration that they are not engaged in certain activities - such as the holocaust, drugs, espionage etc. This system has now been in force for several years. Once authorisation has been given then at the airport each traveler is checked to ensure that they have applied and been cleared. At the moment the system is free.

Sections of a travel insurance policy

A travel insurance policy has many sections: 

• abandonment section of travel insurance policy, 

• travel cancellation section of travel insurance policy - normally £5,000 - less for long stay or backpackers 

• travel curtailment section of the travel insurance policy, 

• delayed travel baggage section of travel insurance policy, 

• medical expenses and travel insurance - very important - cover usually £5,000,000, 

• delay and travel insurance benefits 

• personal accident travel insurance benefits, 

• travel insurance and personal money

• travel insurance for your personal possessions.

Links

Our home page for cheap travel insurance Back to our main cheap travel insurance page for more information. We offer a full range of travel insurance - for instance if you want annual travel insurance then our Annual Travel Insurance usa page has appropriate information. As mentioned we quote for the elderly, travel insurance for the over 65 - see our Travel Insurance for the elderly (over 65, over 70, over 75 or over 80) page. We also quote for long stay travel insurance - see Long Stay Travel Insurance and, for students or young people on their gap year needing backpacker insurance, backpacker Travel Insurance is available. For other regions e.g. for australia see travel insurance australia, for european travel see european travel insurance and for worldwide cover see worldwide travel insurance as appropriate.

About Us

B Portwood & Co Ltd are brokers based in North East England - we have three offices, at Gateshead, Consett and Bishop Auckland. We have been established for nearly 50 years and built our reputation not only on offering the right products but also ensuring that our well trained staff look after our customers really well and help them with any problems or queries they may have.