Holiday safe: What cruise insurance can cover you for

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:15:58 +0000

Although it’s the kind of holiday where you just want to get away from any kind of stress, it’s worth investigating cruise insurance before your luxury voyage sets sail. Like any other kind of travel, a luxury cruise can go wrong – and perhaps even more than any other kind of holiday, it can also be expensive.
Roughly speaking there are two main times of cruise insurance policy, which broadly follow the same lines as other types of holiday insurance: single trip insurance and annual travel insurance. Single trip is exactly what you might imagine; it covers you for one holiday. Annual travel is aimed at people who take more than two or more holidays a year and often policies can be extended to cover any number of visits in a year that you might want.
No matter what kind of policy you get though, there are different types of cover that can be included in either of them. Your insurance provider should be able to tailor fit these to your requirements – providing:
•   Cancellation cover if you’re unable to travel due to illness or injury
•   Cover for Loss or damage to personal possessions or money as long as you’ve secured your belongings and reported any theft to the authorities
•   Medical Emergency and Treatment cover if you’re ill or injured whilst you’re abroad
•   Curtailment cover if you need to come home early for either personal illness or injury or that of a close relative or business associate
•   Personal liability Cover in case you become legally liable to pay damages to someone else whilst on your cruise
•   Legal advice and expenses for the rare situation that you need advice about claiming compensation for something that’s happened whilst on your cruise, from someone other than the tour operator.
A cruise is supposed to be a stress free vacation. Insurance helps you make sure that no matter what happens, that still holds true.

Using Your Laptop on a Cruise Ship

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:34:38 +0000

Cruising is a great way of travel to spend your holiday. Nowadays, it is already a normal thing for us to be connected even when we are in travel, and so, bringing our laptop with us is always a choice. As majority of the cruise lines are now WiFi enabled, using the internet while cruising is now easier. However, one should be aware that internet access is a bit costly. As of October 2009, it has been known that internet access ranges from 30 to 75 cents per minute. That is why, it is important for you to do a little research about it. How will you use your laptop on a cruise ship are listed below.
Before you engage into cruising, calling your chosen cruise line is a useful thing to do. You must have to find out first if wireless internet access is available and if they limit personal computer access. It is also important that you inquire about the rate for wireless and regular shipboard internet access for you to have a great and useful comparison.
Purchasing a wireless internet access in larger package will cost you less as these packages has lower per minute rate. One can also join a frequent cruiser club in order to get some free or discounted internet access fee.
It is also important that you have back-up on all your files, passwords are encrypted, and attach a sticker with your contact on your laptop, just in case you laptop is lost.
While cruising, logging on and off more often is the best way to save on internet usage. One can download all the emails at the same time and read it while offline. When response is needed, type in your response first and login again when your mail is ready for sending.
Keep your laptop with your at all times when using it outside your cabin to prevent it from theft.
The above-mentioned are just a few of the important things you should keep in mind when using your laptop on a cruise ship.

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Holiday safe: What cruise insurance can cover you for

Using Your Laptop on a Cruise Ship