Paris travel insurance

Travel Insurance when visiting Paris

If you are travelling from the UK or another European country to Paris, France, you might think to not bother with travel insurance, given the short trip. Is there really any need to bother with paying extra for your trip, when you are only away for a weekend and with only a 1 hour flights or 2 hour Eurostar train journey involved, for example.

Medical Travel insurance and the EHIC

Certainly in terms of medical travel insurance, you can benefit by ensuring that you have an up-to-date European health Insurance card (EHIC). This card is free to get and will give you a certain level of free care whilst on holiday in France - if you are a European (check the exact terms and condistions for full qualification to be sure before travelling.

What can go wrong?

Taking out travel insurance for France though, is very much worthwhile considering when you look at some of the problems in recent years.

• Cancellation of the Eurostar trains to and from Paris, France.
• The volcanic ash clouds.

Consider also that whether you are travelling for 1 day or 1 year, the fact is that it only take a minute or so for someone to steal one fo your bags or for an airline to lose your luggage. European travel insurance is really cheap inexpensive these days if you shop around and for this reason, taking out travel insurance when travelling to Paris, makes sense.
Peace of mind is a great reason to ensure you are covered. The key is that many people who end up with crippling bills or huge inconvenience when incidents happen, of course never expect it to happen to them. At least when you are insured when in Paris, you will no thave the financial worries in addition.