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Standard Pack (Included)

Included in all the Policies, The Standard Pack covers for Activities such as Hot Air Ballooning, Sailing, snorkelling, scuba diving up to 18metres, water skiing as well as  walking , hiking or trekking up to 2,500 metres. This is serious mountain altitude as our highest peak, Ben Nevis, is just 1,344 metres up. For a full list of all sports & activities covered click here.

Activity Pack

But if you want to get a bit more active, then our Activity Pack covers activities such as offshore sailing, scuba diving to 40 metres in depth, jet skiing,  biking, bungee jumping, cycle touring, horse riding, , tandem sky diving, via ferrata as well as white water rafting and trekking/hiking up to 4600 metres. Here is a full list of sports & activities covered.

Extreme Activity Pack

Our Extreme Activity Pack covers activities such as hang gliding, kite surfing, paragliding, multi pitch rock climbing, as well as trekking above 4,600 metres, with no upper altitude limit and is suited to the most challenging of mountain treks such as Mt Kilimanjaro & Everest Base Camp. For a full list of sports and activities covered click here.

Medical & Repatriation

Medical Cover is the most important part of your travel insurance. Our Premier policy covers up to £10m for hospitalisation, medical and repatriation expenses, up to £5m for our standard and up to £2m for our budget policies.

Get Cover If Already Travelling

You don't need to be in your Home Country to get cover, you can buy a policy from anywhere in the world, as long as you're residential status is still in the UK or EU. Just follow the Quote form to get a price and complete your purchase.

Working while abroad

Non manual / clerical work is covered for free, if you'll be volunteering, WWOOFing or partaking in any sort of manual labour - our Activity Adventure Travel Insurance Pack can cover you.


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Bouldering Travel Insurance

While you can enjoy the thrills of bouldering in your local rock climbing gym, nothing beats actually getting out to enjoy climbing on some real rock.

No heights and no ropes involved, Bouldering is considered a bit safer than roped climbing, but a comprehensive travel insurance policy is still a necessity, even the most experienced of climbers can pick a bad hold and take an unexpected fall.

A Big Cat policy provides comprehensive medical cover including repatriation, evacuation from a remote location if necessary, as well as medical costs to treat injuries sustained.

With a limit of up to £10m which includes helicopter rescue and repatriation you can rest assured you have the cover you need to enjoy  the thrills of your sporting adventure.

Please note we can only provide cover for medical expenses incurred outside of the UK, and to extend cover to include bouldering you will need to include the Activity Pack add-on with your policy, which can be done by following the Quote form.

Bouldering Travel Insurance

Key Features of our Bouldering Travel Insurance

  • Emergency Medical and Repatriation Expenses up to £10 million.
  • Personal Liability up to £2 million.
  • Baggage & Personal Effects up to £2,000.
  • Gadgets & Valuable up to £1,000.
  • Personal Money up to £500.
  • Passport and Visa replacement costs up to £300.
  • Unrestricted return trips home.
  • Cover if you wish to undertake light-manual or volunteer work.
  • Winter Sports
  • Facility to arrange or extend Insurance when already travelling.
  • Money-back 14-day cooling off period if you decide to cancel prior to departure.

Some FAQ's:

Non-manual/clerical work is covered automatically with a Big Cat policy. So, there’s nothing you need to add to be covered for things like teaching, caring or nursing.

With the Activity Pack, we can also cover work of a more manual nature. This can include things like WWOOFing, partaking in community or wildlife based conservation work, charity based supervised building / renovation projects or other permitted manual work (defined below).

Cover is excluded for any activity that involves the use of industrial machinery (other than tractors) or non-domestic power tools.


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Yes, bar work or working in a chalet is automatically covered with all of our policies.


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WWOOfing is classed as Permitted Manual Work, so with the Activity Pack, you’re covered.

(see above)


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Means WWOOFing, fruit picking, casual farm work. Other Manual Work can be covered as long as it does not involve the use of plant/trade/industrial/agricultural machinery (other than tractors) or non-domestic power tools.

Please get in touch if you'd like to find out if we can provide cover for any light manual work you will be doing.


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Decide Canada’s not for you, and want to return earlier than your full period of insurance?

Other insurers will tell you to wave goodbye to your money, but Big Cat lets you claim a partial premium refund for the unused time you didn’t stay in Canada.

 

How does the EARLY RETURN REFUND work?

Let’s say you buy a 24-month policy to cover your time in Canada. But after nine months, you decide that Canada’s not for you, and you want to return home. You may have invested a substantial amount for your 24 months Big Cat policy, most of which you’ll now no longer need. Unlike most insurers, Big Cat is happy to offer you a partial refund on the redundant portion of your insurance as a fair’s fair consolation. Please note that travel insurance premiums are not calculated on a pro-rata basis, as such, no refund is calculated in this manner either.

 

How does Big Cat calculate the amount of EARLY RETURN REFUND?

We take the length of time of the original policy and subtract the actual amount of time you have used, and payout the difference, deducting a £50 Cancellation Charge.

 

Are there other conditions that apply to my EARLY RETURN REFUND?

  1. Only applicable to 24 month IEC policies.
  2. We are not able to offer refunds to cover the first 6 months of the policy.
  3. No refund can be given on a policy where a claim has been made or is likely to be made prior to the cancellation of your Big Cat policy.
  4. You must be back in your home country and notify us by email of your wish to cancel the policy within 14 days of your arrival, please also provide us with proof of your return to the UK (flight ticket / e-ticket / boarding pass).
  5. All refund calculations are based on the base premium paid only. Add-ons are non-refundable.

 

Can you give an example of how much I could receive back in my EARLY RETURN REFUND?

Say you took out a 24-month budget IEC policy costing £525.24, then you wish to cancel the policy after 9 months. Our 9-month budget IEC policy costs £312.55. So we deduct £312.55 from £525.24 = £212.99

Then we apply the £50 Cancellation Charge, refunding you a total of £162.99.


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If you get sick while travelling or you're seriously injured you are covered for emergency medical treatment including:

  • Hospitalisation
  • Ambulance costs
  • Surgery and follow up treatment
  • Visits to the Doctor
  • Repatriation
  • Prescribed Medicine
  • Emergency dental treatment to relieve pain and suffering (limited to £350)

24hrs Medical Emergency Assistance.

 


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Home visits are allowed if your policy duration is 4 months or more. There are no limits, you can come home as many times as you like, for as long as you like.


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To add any of our Activity Packs, just follow the Quote form - to stage 3 - there you will find all of the optional extras.


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