Brits in Thailand

The FCO in the UK have amended their travel advice with regard to travelling to Thailand and state that they advise against all but essential travel to Bangkok. Extreme caution should be taken in other areas such as northern areas and Pattaya. They also advise against all travel to Preah Vihear temple area and against all but essential travel to and through some southern provinces, however, the latter two have been in place for some time.

Pattaya seems to be ok to travel to at the moment and travel insurance should be valid. I would check though with insurance companies - in case they try and wangle out of it.

My annual travel policy contains the wonderfully vague phrase that I should "...obey all advice from relevant authorities". Plenty of room for the Insurance Company to interpret that to their advantage in the eventuality of any claim.

Seems reasonable to me that if you choose to ignore advice from your Government advising against travel to a particular country, then your Insurance Company would have every right to refuse your claim.

Seems ridiculous that anybody would expect an annual travel policy which probably cost under ┬г100 to cover them for travelling against Govt. advice to a war zone or equivalent.

:dontknow:

[joe552]

I'm still hoping the Irish Govt. will change its advice in the next 2 weeks. Hopefully some agreement can be reached by both sides soon.

Just be careful with travel insurance.... before my recent trip to Bangkok, I called my insurance company to check they would cover me travelling and they said all was fine unless the FCO recommended against ALL travel.

Once there things got worse and I wanted to change my plans, but the new answer from the insurance company was... the trouble in thailand is classed as "civil unrest" which is not covered. So what about the volcano ash situation, can I claim for that? No, that is an "act of god" which is also not covered.

They did happily inform me that if I was injured in the "civil unrest" then I could claim :thumbleft:

Seriously, guys. I have never encountered such a group of nervous nelly wusses in all my life.

[joe552]

Oops, I suggest you read the post on the thread "Cambodia here I come" to understand why some people won't travel without adequate insurance.

Oops, I suggest you read the post on the thread "Cambodia here I come" to understand why some people won't travel without adequate insurance.

Replace the word "people" with "nervous nelly wusses", and we're in agreement.

"Seems reasonable to me that if you choose to ignore advice from your Government advising against travel to a particular country"

My point was that the phrase "relevant authorities" is a broad brush and must be subject to dispute as to who is "relevant". I was not saying that it's put me off as I'll be in Thailand very shortly and am not personally worried at all about travelling particularly as I won't be in Bangkok anyway.

Seriously, guys. I have never encountered such a group of nervous nelly wusses in all my life
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