In the 16 years I’ve been cruising, I’ve seen many people fall ill and be taken off the ship in port or even evacuated at sea by helicopter. While I have always hoped for their speedy recovery, I have also wondered if they had purchased travel insurance.It’s certainly tempting not to. How many times have you returned from a trip safe and sound and kicked yourself for spending a couple of hundred bucks to insure against some calamity that never transpired? (Plenty, God willing.) But it only takes once, and it doesn’t have to be much of a calamity to deep-six your sizable cruise investment. A jury summons can do it, or an attack of appendicitis, or a missed connection on the way to the ship.
In my opinion, all cruise vacationers should buy travel insurance. But where to start?
