Travel Insurance for Students

  • Student Budget Friendly
  • Up to £10 million Medical
  • Up to 2 Years Continual Cover
  • 24hr Emergency Assistance
  • 100+ Sports No Extra Cost

From only £8.00 per Month

Prices from £8.00 per month for 2 years European cover

Low Cost Student Travel Insurance

If you're going on a study trip abroad, a well earned break between classes or a round the world adventure, we can provide peace of mind to British or Irish students with our fully comprehensive and customiseable travel insurance policies that are ideal for students on a budget.

What types of policies are available to students?

Backpacker - Essential for gap years, this policy covers 1 long trip of up to 2 years

Single Trip - For one off holidays or school trips up to 45 days long

Annual - unlimited number of trips for 12 months - great if you fly home at the end of term or for half term holidays

Save 15% with Essential Travel

To help make sure you protect your travel plans with our award winning Student Backpacker policy, you can save 15% until 1st September 2013, so that you can get covered without hurting your travel budget! This 15% discount is automatically deducted when you get a quote for a backpacker policy and included in the prices displayed.

Cover for working students

Grade 1 sports cover comes with your policy at no extra cost and includes cover for restaurant and bar work, student counselling and exchanges and a host of low risk sports. For adventure sports, add extra grade 2 (medium risk) - grade 4 (high risk) sports cover.

Experts' Top Tip - Travelling in a group of students? You can add up to 8 travellers to one policy online (or more if you contact us) which makes our policies ideal for school trips or students travelling together.

Customise to suit your needs

You can choose from up to 4 cover levels and 4 areas of cover so that you only pay for the cover you need. You can also add extra protection for pre-existing medical conditions, winter sports, cruises and more so that you can experience as much as possible whilst you're away - safely.

Policies are available to any UK or Irish resident up to 55 years (Backpacker policies), 65 years (Wintersports policies) or 74 years of age (Single or Annual policies).

5 Easy Steps to Book Online

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Add Extra Cover

You can customise your policy further with pre-existing medical condition cover, sports and a number of other specialist add-ons.

Pre-Existing Medical Conditions

Specialist cover can be added to your policy in minutes via our easy Online Medical Screening system.

Hazardous Sports and activities

If you want to play sport on holiday, make sure you do so safely by adding the correct sports grade to your policy.

100+ sports are covered at no extra cost on our policies!

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