Should I buy travel insurance for this trip?

[flex]

Quick question:  I'm making a quick trip to Costa Rica in August on AK Air.  Should I buy travel insurance?

Please answer quickly so I can book my trip.  tia

[Jalapeñomel]

Overseas trips I always do

[underwaterrhymes]

I would, yes.

[underwaterrhymes]

Also, if you want tips on CR, let me know. Ryan's family lives there and we've been a bunch of times.

[nsl]

I always get travel insurance when we travel internationally.

[flex]

You guys are right along the lines that I was thinking! Thank you.

[tripleshot]

I would, but I buy from an outside company, not the airline. I've used tripinsurancestore.com and insuremytrip.com before.

[JayhawkGirl]

Always.

We lost FIL when they were out of the country. Travel insurance covered everything - from revised flights to medical, funeral home and translators. Obviously worse case scenario, but we are forever thankful they always bought travel insurance.

[flex]

Apr 16, 2017 17:13:37 GMT -5 JayhawkGirl said:

Always.

We lost FIL when they were out of the country. Travel insurance covered everything - from revised flights to medical, funeral home and translators. Obviously worse case scenario, but we are forever thankful they always bought travel insurance.

Oh my gosh...how awful!  I'm so sorry.

I think about that kind of stuff..."what if?"  I don't want my kids to have to deal with their ol' ma kicking the bucket while I'm out of  country.

[bittybomb]

Definitely.

[JayhawkGirl]

Apr 16, 2017 17:15:29 GMT -5 flex said:

Apr 16, 2017 17:13:37 GMT -5 JayhawkGirl said:

Always.

We lost FIL when they were out of the country. Travel insurance covered everything - from revised flights to medical, funeral home and translators. Obviously worse case scenario, but we are forever thankful they always bought travel insurance.

Oh my gosh...how awful!  I'm so sorry.

I think about that kind of stuff..."what if?"  I don't want my kids to have to deal with their ol' ma kicking the bucket while I'm out of  country.

I hate to bring up such a heavy thing - but I shudder to think what MIL's expenses would have been otherwise. It helped us so much - they made her and his return travel arrangements which would have been very difficult as the phone communication was very poor between us and her. At one point we had a bad flight # and thought she was stuck in Puerto Rico. I'll also add, the tourism ministry called and checked on her daily at the hotel until she could get a flight back home a few days later. They were angels on earth.