Royal Caribbean charged me $1,556 to leave my cruise early. Can I get my money back?
Can a cruise line charge you more to leave your cruise early? As a matter of fact, it can. But should it charge you? That is what we’re here to find out.
TRAVEL INSURANCE
Do you need travel insurance in 2025?
Going somewhere in 2024? Chances are, you’ll need travel insurance. With wars raging in the Middle East and Europe, travelers are more nervous than they’ve ever been about their upcoming trips.
How to find the best travel insurance for your next trip
If you’re not thinking about buying travel insurance for your next trip, you probably should. In a world filled with danger, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, anything could happen. Here’s our guide to the best travel insurance.
Two days in sick bay cost me $5,929. Why won’t my travel insurance pay?
Oceania hands Murray Cohen a bill for $5,929 after he’s hospitalized on a Mediterranean cruise. Why is his travel insurance company dragging its feet on his claim?
6 times when you’re better off without travel insurance
Even though Jon Look is a frequent traveler, he always leaves home without one thing.
“I have never purchased a travel insurance policy,” admits Look, a retired photographer. “It adds expense and complications and rarely pays off.”
Traveling without insurance? Yep, most Americans still do it, and some of them with good reason. Because not everyone needs insurance and some people wouldn’t be able to use it even if they bought it.
As it turns out, there are times when you’ll want to skip that insurance policy. It may not be as often as you think, but it happens.
Help! My trip insurance company won’t pay to bring my husband’s body home
After Talor Min’s husband dies during a trip to Malaysia, she files a claim with her travel insurance companies for the repatriation of his remains. One year later, she’s still trying to get her money back.
Alternative forms of insurance you need to know about now
Think you need travel insurance? Think again.
You might require something else — either a specialized insurance product that protects only one aspect of your trip, or something that isn’t insurance at all.
Call it “alt” insurance.
No, we’re not about to get political. Alt insurance is real and it can protect you regardless of ideological leanings. Sometimes, it isn’t insurance at all, but a different form of protection.