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Cooperative Travel Insurance Versus Essential Travel

Cooperative specialises in providing financial services like banking, investment and varying kinds of insurance. Click the link below and see how our travel insurance compares with the Cooperative travel insurance policy.

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Essential Travel Travel Insurance

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£7.50 per week

  • Essential Travel: £10 million medical cover
  • Cooperative Travel Insurance: £5 million medical cover
  • Kids go FREE on Family Policies with Essential Travel
  • Cover available for pre-existing conditions only with Essential Travel
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Compare Cooperative Holiday Insurance Prices To Essential Travel's

The Cooperative is primarily a financial services provider. Among the services provided by its insurance division is life, health, car, household, business and travel insurance. Since 2002 Essential Travel has provided over 5 million UK holiday makers with peace of mind travel through our range of travel products, including travel insurance, airport parking, airport hotel bookings and car hire. And all with affordability in mind.

Essential Travel competes with Cooperative travel insurance on these key policy features:

Essential Travel Cooperative Travel Insurance
Medical Expenses £10 million £5 million
Personal Liability £2 million £2 million
Cancellation and Curtailment £3000 £3000
Pre-existing medical conditions Cover available Cover not available
Missed Departure £600 £500
Baggage cover £1500 £1500
Passport loss £300 £300
Mugging £500 Not covered
Hijack £500 Not covered
Catastrophe £300 Not covered

Below is a price comparison table comparing Essential Travel insurance with Cooperative holiday insurance based on online figures from July 2011. Please bare in mind that Cooperative does not offer a Single Trip policy and therefore price comparison for that section could not be done. Also, their annual policy doesn't make provision for children.

Essential Travel
Cooperative Travel Insurance
Single Person (UNDER30) Family
(2 adults + 2 Children)
Single Person (UNDER30) Family
(2 adults + 2 Children)
Single Trip Travel Insurance (1 Week)
Europe £8.91 £17.81 N/A N/A
Worldwide £24.27 £48.54 N/A N/A
Annual Travel Insurance (1 Year)
Europe £42.75 £50.88 £49.00 N/A
Worldwide £52.84 £68.50 £94.00 N/A



  • Don't forget that Essential Travel offers you 3 policies to choose from - Single Trip, Annual Multi-trip and Backpacker. All of them can be bought with optional winter sports coverage.
  • We also provide you with 4 policy cover levels to choose from - Standard, Essential, Essential Plus and Superior- which means you can choose a cover level that suits your holiday.
  • All our policies can provide you with £10 million in emergency medical cover- which includes repatriation.

Unlike Essential Travel, Cooperative doesn't provide online travel insurance quotes more than 30 days in advance. If you would like to find out more about the range of travel insurance cover we provide, please check out the side bar (on the right) for more information. If it's a quick quote you're after, fill out the form on the top of this page and hit 'Quote Me'. Visit the Cooperative website for more info on their products and services at www.co-operativeinsurance.co.uk

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