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Nationwide Travel Insurance

Nationwide are best known as one of the UK's largest building societies. As well as offering mortgages and loans they now offer insurance including Nationwide travel insurance and car insurance.

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Essential Travel Travel Insurance

Policy Includes

From only
£7.50 per week

  • Up to £10 million emergency medical expenses including repatriation
  • Up to £5,000 for cancellation and curtailment on Superior polices
  • Free grade 1 sports activities on all polices

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Nationwide Holiday Insurance

Established in 2002, FSA approved Essential Travel is one of the UK's leading online travel essentials providers. In 2008 alone Essential Travel had 5 million page visitors to their website and were named 'The UK's favourite travel provider' by the Daily Telegraph.

Essential Travel offer a comparable but not identical product to the Nationwide travel insurance product. We compete with Nationwide travel insurance on these key aspects:

Essential Travel Nationwide Travel Insurance
Medical Cover £10 million £10 million
Cancellation and Curtailment £3,000 £5,000
Personal Liability £2 million £2 million

Below is a price comparison table comparing Essential Travel insurance with Nationwide travel insurance based on figures from October 2009.

Essential Travel
Nationwide Travel Insurance
Single Person (UNDER30) Family
(2 adults + 2 Children)		 Single Person (UNDER30) Family
(2 adults + 2 Children)
Single Trip Travel Insurance (1 Week)
Europe £11.82 £22.55 £16.30 £31.09
Worldwide £25.90 £45.20 £34.24 £63.68
Annual Travel Insurance (1 Year)
Europe £35.98 £60.95 £43.29 £70.48
Worldwide £51.12 £79.01 £62.50 £103.08



Kids travel for free on Essential Travels family insurance polices which means even greater savings compared to Nationwide travel insurance. Take a few seconds to get a quote from the Nationwide website; www.nationwide.co.uk/travel or from our quotation tool at the top of the page to see for yourself

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