Looking For Travel Insurance? Call FREE On 0800 096 46 02

Winter Sports Travel Insurance

Travel insurance for skiing and snowboarding will nearly always cost more then buying travel insurance without cover for winter sports, but it is essential not to try and save money by buying the cheapest winter sports travel insurance possible.

Winter sports travel insurance is normally sold as an optional extra alongside regular travel insurance. Ski and snowboard enthusiasts will benefit from the additional cover provided for skiing, snowboarding and ice-skating and for their equipment or lift passes. Injuries caused to others by careless skiing can lead to expensive compensation claims so it’s important to make sure your winter sports insurance includes cover for personal liability whilst skiing and snowboarding.

Skiing accidents can often lead to expensive claims for medical expenses and the cost of search, rescue and recovery from the slopes will also push up the costs. Most travel insurance therefore has cover for £5m of emergency medical expenses, which should be more than enough for the majority of claims.

Travel insurance for off-piste skiing can cause problems. You need to check the cover very carefully as most insurers will insist that you are accompanied off piste by a local guide and that you do not ski against any local or authoritative advice.

Other benefits of winter sports travel insurance include the costs of ski-packs for lessons and hire of equipment if you have to cancel your holiday or are unable to ski due to injury or illness. You should also have cover for closure of the slopes due to avalanche or the lack of snow. With this extra cover you could claim back £20 per day to enable you to go to another resort and the necessary additional cost of a ski pass.

To be fully covered for skiing and snowboarding you need to make sure you say yes to “winter sports”. World First automatically covers all the other “activities” listed below at no additional cost. If your sport isn’t listed please call our friendly customer services team FREE on 0800 096 46 02 for an instant decision.

Activities

  1. Abseiling (within organiser’s guidelines)
  2. Archery
  3. Badminton
  4. Ballooning (hot air/organised pleasure rides only)
  5. Banana Boating
  6. Baseball
  7. Basketball
  8. Boardsailing
  9. Bowls
  10. Bungee Jumping (within organiser’s guidelines)
  11. Camel Riding (no personal liability cover)
  12. Canoeing (up to grade 2 rivers only)
  13. Catamaran Sailing (if qualified/no liability cover)
  14. Clay Pigeon Shooting (no liability cover)
  15. Climbing (on a climbing wall only)
  16. Cricket
  17. Curling
  18. Cycling
  19. Deep Sea Fishing
  20. Dinghy Sailing (no liability cover)
  21. Fell Walking
  22. Fishing
  23. Glacier Walking
  24. Gliding (no cover for crewing or piloting)
  25. Go Karting (within organiser’s guidelines/no liability cover)
  26. Golf
  27. Gymnastics
  28. Heptathlon
  29. Hiking
  30. Horse Riding (excl. competitions/racing/jumping/hunting)
  31. Hot Air Ballooning (organised pleasure rides only)
  32. Ice Skating
  33. Indoor Climbing (on climbing wall)
  34. Jet Boating (no racing or liability cover)
  35. Jet Skiing ( no racing or liability cover)
  36. Kayaking (up to grade 2 rivers only)
  37. Kitesurfing/Boarding
  38. Marathon Running
  39. Mountain Biking (recreational)
  40. Netball
  41. Orienteering
  42. Paintballing (wearing eye protection/no liability cover)
  43. Parascending (supervised/over water)
  44. Pony Trekking
  45. Quad Biking (no liability cover)
  46. Racketball
  47. Rambling
  48. Rap Jumping (within organiser’s guidelines)
  49. Rifle Range Shooting - (no liability cover)
  50. Ringos
  51. Roller Skating/Blading (wearing pads & helmets)
  52. Rounders
  53. Rowing (except racing)
  54. Running
  55. Safari Trekking in a vehicle (must be organised tour)
  56. Safari trekking on foot (must be organised tour)
  57. Sailboarding
  58. Sailing (if qualified/no liability cover)
  59. Scuba Diving to 30m (within organiser’s guidelines)
  60. Shooting (within organiser’s guidelines/no liability cover)
  61. Skateboarding (wearing pads and helmets)
  62. Ski Dooing (no liability cover)
  63. Sledging - pulled by horse or reindeer as a passenger
  64. Small Bore Target Shooting (within organiser’s guidelines/no liability cover)
  65. Snorkelling
  66. Softball
  67. Squash
  68. Surfing
  69. Swimming
  70. Table Tennis
  71. Ten Pin Bowling
  72. Tennis
  73. Trekking
  74. Tug of war
  75. Volleyball
  76. Walking
  77. Wakeboarding
  78. Walking
  79. War Games (wearing eye protection/no liability cover)
  80. Water Polo
  81. Water-Skiing
  82. White Water Rafting (within organiser’s guidelines)
  83. Windsurfing
  84. Yachting (if qualified/no liability cover)
  85. Zorbing

Winter Sports

  1. Bigfoot Skiing
  2. Cross Country Skiing
  3. Ice Hockey
  4. Mono Skiing
  5. Off Piste Skiing & Snowboarding (within local ski patrol guidelines)
  6. Skiing
  7. Sledging/Tobogganing
  8. Snowblading
  9. Snowboarding
  10. Tobogganing/Sledging

Cheap Travel insurance from the Travel Insurance Specialists


Website design by Web Bite Design