Gap Year Travel Insurance

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Gap Year Travel Insurance

We offer gap year insurance that covers non-manual work, over 100 sports and minor medical conditions for free. This 2-year policy also includes up to £10 million in medical cover and cover for personal liability and legal costs. What's more, we cover homesickness - you are allowed one return trip home.

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£18.84 per month

Up to £10 million medical cover
Up to £2 million personal liability cover
Up to £1,500 lost luggage cover
Camel riding to scuba diving - a wide host of activities covered
Fruit picker, Bottle washer, Au pair...? Working holidays included as standard
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Whether you plan on pulling pints in Sydney, sky diving in New Zealand, building an orphanage in Africa, learning Spanish on a home stay in South America or joining a Muay Thai boxing camp in Thailand you need to ensure you have the best insurance. Our backpacker insurance above offers comprehensive cover for up to two years giving you (and your mum) ultimate peace of mind for prices that won't blow your budget.

Key Points of Gap Year Insurance

Offers continuous coverage for up to two years
Allows one return visit to your home country
Grade 1 hazardous activities (like rafting, camel riding and kayaking) and included for free
Offers coverage for non-manual gap year work such as fruit picking, bar work and au pairing
Coverage for accidental loss or theft of your money, important tickets, drivers license and debit or credit cards.*

Adventure Sports

You can easily upgrade your gap year travel insurance to include a wide range of adventure sports such as bungee jumping, sky diving, white water rafting and scuba diving. Get that adrenaline pumping! In the quote form above, choose between:

Grade 1 covers 100 low-risk sports for free
Top up with Grade 2 cover for more adventurous sports
Choose Grade 3 or 4 cover to really get your adrenaline pumping

Gap Year Jobs

We know it's necessary to work while abroad to fund the travels so we offer coverage for non manual work on our gap year insurance. The good old backpacker tradition of fruit picking is covered as is bar work, office work and au pairing.
Gap year volunteer projects are becoming an increasingly popular option for students and our gap year insurance will cover you for any non manual volunteer work you want to do abroad.

To obtain a low cost quote for gap year insurance travel insurance for students or backpackers take 30 seconds to fill in our easy quote form.

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*Applies only for the Essential Plus Backpacker cover.

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