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Debenhams Travel Insurance Versus Essential Travel

We compared our travel insurance with the Debenhams travel insurance cover, and placed the results below for your convenience. Compare prices now to help you choose the best travel insurance brand for price and value.

Compare Debenhams with Essential Travel
Essential Travel Travel Insurance

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  • Essential Travel Standard: up to 10 million medical cover
  • Debenhams Bronze: 5 million medical cover
  • Essential Travel offers Superior cover for Mugging and Hijacking
  • Minor Medical Conditions covered as standard on Essential Travel policies

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Debenhams Holiday Insurance Cover

With a multitude of stores all over the UK and the world, Debenhams is quite the retail giant. But it hasn't limited itself to providing just retail goods, it also provides a range of financial services, one of these being selling insurance to travellers. Essential Travel has been providing the same service since 2002 and in that time has provided more than 5 million Brits with peace of mind holidaying. We also specialise in other traveller's essentials like airport parking, airport hotel booking and car hire.

Essential Travel insurance competes with Debenhams holiday insurance on these key policy features:

Please note: the below table compares Essential Travel's Essential policy to Debenham's Bronze policy.

Essential Travel Debenhams Holiday Insurance
Medical Expenses £5 million £5 million
Personal Liabilty £1 million £2 million
Travel Delay £100 £100
Hospital Benefit £600 £400
Hijack (Superior Policy) Only on higher level policies Not covered as standard
Minor Medical Conditions Covered as standard Not covered as standard
Mugging Only on higher level policies Not covered as standard

Below is a price comparison table comparing Standard Essential Travel Insurance with Debenhams Bronze holiday insurance based on online figures from July 2011. Results indicate that Essential Travel provides comprehensive travel insurance at a more affordable rate.

Essential Travel
Debenhams Holiday Insurance
Single Person (UNDER30) Family
(2 adults + 2 Children)
Single Person (UNDER30) Family
(2 adults + 2 Children)
Single Trip Travel Insurance (1 Week)
Europe £6.25 £12.51 £11.37 £22.75
Worldwide £16.73 £33.48 £26.64 £53.27
Annual Travel Insurance (1 Year)
Europe £29.06 £34.61 £29.99 £59.98
Worldwide £37.84 £46.58 £49.02 £98.04



  • Essential Travel covers over 50 minor medical conditions as a standard across all our policies. This is along with optional pre-exiting medical conditions coverage.
  • Another standard on with our coverage is the over 100 sports and activities we cover for FREE. And with our 3 upgrade options, that list can grow to cover over 100 adventurous activities.
  • Kids always get cover for FREE with Essential Travel. And that means you get to save even more!
  • Essential Travel also offers you up to £5 million in emergency medical cover (£10 million on Superior policies). Debenhams' Bronze policy gives you £5 million.

And if you need more information on our travel insurance, please check out the side bar on the right. Essential Travel has made travelling with peace of mind our mission and provide all kinds of travellers with insurance tailored enough for them. And that means you don't have to fit in with your holiday insurance, it'll fit in with you!

We invite you to visit the Debenhams website to find out more on all the products and services they provide. Find them at www.debenhamstravelinsurance.com

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