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Conor Pope

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

It may not cover that, but it is really important that you ask the question.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Well, I mean, I think some of the terms and conditions of travel insurance policies can run to like 29,000 words, which is like nobody is going to read the terms and conditions.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

It's horrendous.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

But one of the things that you can do and a kind of handy trick is if you copy and paste,

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

the terms and conditions of a particular travel insurance document and paste it into Microsoft Word.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And you just go Control F and go for excluded, not covered.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And the keywords, because they're the only things you really care about.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

One of the things that travel insurance companies do is they really boast about the 10 million euro in healthcare cover that they offer or all of this stuff.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

All of that stuff is entirely nonsensical.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

It looks good on the page and makes us feel slightly more comfortable.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Oh my God, I've got 10 million euros cover.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

What you really want to work out is what is excluded, what's not covered and what kind of other exclusions apply.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

So, for instance, like a lot of the time people don't realise if you have your passport stolen in your hotel room and your passport isn't in the safe, you mightn't be covered for that.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Because the travel insurance document will say the passport document or the essential documents or the money or the wallet or the phone or whatever has to be, you know, in the safe.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

So a lot of people would just think, oh, well, it's on the bed, it's grand.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And then it's stolen and you go, oh, and they will go out of their way to not pay out.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

I mean, they're not your friend.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

They do offer you a safety net and it is really, really important to have travel insurance.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

The key thing for people is that you...