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Gap Year Travel Insurance

Gap year insurance for backpackers and students who want to spend their gap year volunteering, working and travelling abroad.

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Policy Includes

From only
£18.84 per month

  • Up to £10 million medical cover, £2 million personal liability, £1,500 lost luggage
  • 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 offers fully comprehensive cover for up to 12 months 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 one year
  • Allows one return visit to your home country
  • Grade 1 hazardous activities included for free
  • Offers coverage for non manual gap year work such as fruit picking, bar work and au pairing

We understand that a year can be a long time to stay away from home, so if you get home sick, have to go to your brothers wedding or simply miss your mums home cooked Sunday Roast our gap year insurance allows one visit back to your home country.

Adventure Sports

Your gap year travel will give you the chance of loads of adventure sports you wouldn't ever dream of doing at home. But when you're at the other side of the world suddenly the thought of throwing yourself out of an aeroplane at 14,000ft seems like a good idea! 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!

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.