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Admiral: Travel Insurance reviews

Name: Travel Insurance
Rating: 2.31 (152 reviews)

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2.18

Based on 152 reviews, last reviewed 23rd Dec 2024

94% decrease in 5 star reviews

in the past 90 days

40% decrease in 1 star reviews

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Latest highest rating:

5

Initially I was worried due to other reviews. Initially I was worried due to other reviews. I lost my phone in Majorca. I put a claim in and submitted around 10 pictures of evidence. Police report... Read more Reviewed on: 6th November 2024

Latest lowest rating:

1

Admiral travel insurance A friend of mine is currently in domic Reviewed on: 23rd December 2024

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Whether you’re jetting off abroad or travelling across the UK, it’s beneficial to have the security of a travel insurance policy. Here at Smart Money People, we collect Admiral travel insurance reviews from genuine customers so that you can shop with confidence.

Admiral was first set up as a car insurance provider in 1993, but since then, has branched out to offer a variety of insurance products. Admiral strives for convenience and hassle-free insurance, developing an app to allow customers to manage their cover on the go.

Smart Money People hosts reviews for a variety of Admiral’s travel insurance policies, like the Single Trip cover for those who only travel once a year, and the Annual Travel policy for more frequent travellers. Admiral also offers specialist cover for winter sports holidays and cruises, as well as a policy to cover your gadgets - great if you’re travelling for business with lots of expensive tech. Read our Admiral travel insurance reviews to see what customers have said about their experiences.

Have you taken out a travel insurance policy with Admiral? Whatever your experience, leave a review with Smart Money People to help improve trust and transparency in financial services. Share how easy (or hard!) the sign-up process was. Have you been satisfied with the cover you received for the price of the policy? Did you deal with the customer service team at all? Leave an Admiral travel insurance review to help others find their perfect policy.

Admiral Travel Insurance reviews (152)

Review of the Admiral, Travel Insurance:

Don't go with the Cheapest

I too have an annual travel insurance policy with Admiral. I have been insured with them for 12 years and had 2 claims for cancellation ( close family death and personal illness).Once I provided the proofs claims were settled with no hassle. Insurance is not about cost.It is about how you are treated in the unlikely event of a claim.Do not go for the cheapest. Reviewed on: 24th December 2015

POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE

STARTED OUR CLAIM ON THE 14TH NOV.2022,STILL NOT SETTLED AND JUST WRITTEN ANOTHER LETTER SAYING IF NOT SETTLED WITHIN NEXT 21 DAYS WILL WRITE TO INSURANCE OMBUDSMAN,PLUS COPY IN THEIR CEO. WHEN OUR HOUSE WAS BURGLED HAD TO FLY HOME IMMEDIATELY,INCURRING CONSIDERABLE EXPENSE.HAD TO FILL IN CLAIM FORM AT LOCAL LIBRARY AS BOTH LAPTOPS HAD BEEN STOLEN AND NO ADDRESS TO SEND DOCS TO VIA POST.TRIED PHONING THEM BUT EITHER LEFT ON HOLD OR TOLD ALL TELEPHONE APPTS. HAD BEEN ALLOCATED SO PHONE BACK TOMORROW.FINALLY GOT AN ADDRESS TO WRITE TO ON THE 19TH DECEMBER 2022. IT IS VERY ANNOYING THAT WHEN YOU HAVE CONTACTED THEM THEY SAY WE WILL GET BACK TO YOU IN 30 DAYS BUT DON'T CONTACT US IN MEANTIME OTHERWISE THE REDPLY TIME MAY START FROM SCRATCH AGAIN,IE HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER 30 DELAYS-SUPPOSE ONE WAY OF DELAYING SETTLEMENT.GAVE THEM POLICE CAD NO.,PLUS CRIME REF NO. WHICH THEY DON'T WANT TO ACCEPT BUT ADVISED BY POLICE THAT IS ALL THEY NEED.SINCE WHICH I HAVE GIVEN THEM THE NAME OF A D/S AT BROMLEY POLICE STN PLUS HIS E-MAIL AND PHONE NO. IF I HAD READ THIS COMPANIES REVIEWS WOULD NOT OF TAKEN OUT A POLICY WITH THEM,UNFORTUNATELY TAKEN IN BY THEIR FLASHY COMMERCIALS. Reviewed on: 4th March 2023

Awful Admiral

Contracted Covid and thought that it would be simple sailing to get a valid claim.for a cancelled UK holiday settled in a matter of a few weeks. Impossible to get through on phone and was cut off twice on 2 different occasions. Had to go on a wretched PORTAL online which was not user friendly. Was asked stupid questions like When did you first consult a doctor. For COVID diagnosis?? Then was told I'd have to submit a different test , by which stage I was no longer testing positive. They asked for all of my individual payments for said holiday on bank statements . This proved very difficult. Was told it would be 30 working days before anything happened. After a month I wrote an email of complaint but no answer. After 2 months I opened a case with the Financial Ombudsman. I have now been paid and my second email of complaint received a tetchy response that there was " no case to answer" and that all their procedures were in place and my case had been dealt with. Made me think of the days of being with Commercial Union in the 1980s. We won't make a drama out of a crisis. They didn't! House fire claim.settled within weeks and that was a big claim. Dreadful company. Are there any decent ones ,though? I dread to think about if I had had a serious accident abroad and my family were having to faff around with wretched portals! Reviewed on: 3rd March 2023

Awful company

Tried to make a claim on short-notice cancellation of a trip to the US after my Mother in Law had a stroke 3 days before we were due to travel. We finally get a claim rejection after 10 months of back and forth due to the fact that because the person that fell ill had a previous attack back in 2019. This is classed as a pre-existing condition and we aren't covered, even though the person who was ill wasn't travelling with us. Just need to advise people that if you have to cancel a trip due to a family health emergency then your policy isn't worth the paper it is written on. This is compounded by the fact that it has taken 10 months to get an answer. I'd hate to think what would happen to someone who had an emergency whilst actually travelling abroad who was foolish enough to buy insurance from Admiral! Reviewed on: 3rd March 2023

Impossible to contact

My partner slipped whilst on holiday on the 4th November 2022 and broke her wrist. Immediate hospital treatment was required. On our return I made a claim on my multi trip policy with Admiral. I filled in an online questionnaire and submitted copies of receipts for the charges incurred for treatment, medication, travel and appointments. I received a notification informing me the questionnaire was 100% completed and I would receive a response with in 30 working days, which I did not. I eventually received a reply in early January asking me to review my claim. I logged on to my claim portal and the questionnaire was noted as only 25% complete and the documents I submitted was missing. I filled in the information for a second time and received the same response ( contact will be made in 30 working days). I have tried numerous times via email, online chats, and customer care email (No contact telephone number available) ect. I was totally ignored. I eventually threatened to contact ombudsman to make a complaint and received a reply with in 24 hrs apologising and requesting me to resubmit my claim. It has now been 4 months and I am no further forward than the I first day I submitted my claim. I am currently looking for travel insurance elsewhere as my family are going on holiday in June and if the worst was to happen I can not reply on Admiral to be contactable or to settle a claim if it was required. I have been ignored multiple times. contact is virtually impossible. If it was not for the fact the Admiral was very well advertised cross many media platforms I can honestly say that I feel I had been conned or scammed into taking out this policy by a fraudulent business. I am luck that the claim was for a broken wrist and not some life threatening injury. Reviewed on: 2nd March 2023

Auto renewal

Not aware I had signed up to auto renewal. I do not want to renew. Webchat not available at weekends or outside 'office hour'. Phone contact warns up to an hours wait. Only available during 'office hours'. Phoneline goes dead after 15 mins or so three times and writing this as I wait. No email address. If this is the level of customer care i.e. not worth putting extra staff in a call centre... Reviewed on: 27th February 2023

Questions, questions, questions

I wanted travel insurance to Canada and asked for a quote. I was sent a list of questions, as I had a condition that I had told them about. I answered the questions, I was then sent another list of questions, and told them I had answered them. They sent another list of questions, which was again the same, except for ONE ONLY additional question. I answered all the questions again. Then I was asked an additional question. By that time, I had had enough, this was going to be a marathon. No more, I decided to forget about them. Reviewed on: 27th February 2023

AVOID !! Worse company to deal with

Had a emergency in spain last year and admit to hospital paid nearly 2k for discharge dealing with admiral over 5 months keep asking different things after every 30 days after nearly 6 months they refuse to pay out useless insurer whats point having insurance with them AVOID these scammers Reviewed on: 21st February 2023

A simple claim unresolved

I experienced a theft in France November 2022. Despite forwarding police report and details of the loss (total value £480), Admiral just keep moving the goalposts. Reviewed on: 20th February 2023

take a lot of money in premiums but offer nothing in return

still on hold 30 mins and counting. the phone message immediately tells you to do everything online as they have very high wait times on the phone. well I cant so need to speak to someone so employ staff to answer the phones! Reviewed on: 20th February 2023

Unacceptable performance

I have been made to dance in never ending circles, with goal posts changing all the time. No matter what information you give they ask for more. I believe they make it so difficult you will give up I have now contacted the regulator to complain Reviewed on: 20th February 2023

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