Winter Sports Travel Insurance

Add Extra Winter Sports Cover

Winter sports holidays are notoriously dangerous - which is probably why they’re so much fun! This is why they require a special level of protection that can be easily added to your policy to ensure you can get the thrill without the risk.

Once you've added Winter Sports to your policy, you'll be covered for an additional 25 winter sportsat no extra cost.

Choose from 3 Policy Types

Adding extra cover for Winter Sports is easy – just choose what type of policy suits you best!

• Single Trip with Winter Sports: 
  Valid for single trips of up to 87 days with 17 days of skiing (ages 2 - 65)
• Annual cover with Winter Sports: 
  For multiple holidays throughout the year of up to 45 days each, with a maximum of 17 days for skiing per year (ages 2 - 65)
• Backpacker cover with Winter Sports: 
  Continuous trips for 2 years with up to a maximum of 17 days per policy for skiing (ages 19 - 45)

*If you are over 65, you can still be covered. Please see our options for Travel Insurance with Wintersports for Over 65s.

Winter Sports covered in the same quote
Air boarding	Glacier Walking	Ski - blading	Snow mobiling
Big Foot Skiing	Huskey Dog Sledging organised and non-competitive	Skiing - alpine	Snow Shoe Walking
Blade Skating	Ice Karting	Skiing off piste with a guide	Snow Tubing
Bum Boarding	Ice Skating	Skiing on piste	Tobogganing
Cross Country/Nordic Skiing	Ice Windsurfing	Sledging	Winter Walking (using crampons and ice picks only)
Dog Sledging	Kick Sledging	Sledging pulled by horse or reindeer as a passenger
Dry Skiing	Langlauf	Snow boarding

Winter Sports Medical Insurance

By adding winter sports to your Single, Annual or Backpacker policy you will be covered for emergency medical expenses that occur should you have an accident and require medical attention. You will also be covered for mountain rescue, helicopter rescue costs and repatriation.

• Medical Expenses up to £10 million
• Hospital Benefit up to £1,200
• Personal Accident up to £30 000

Helmets are compulsory

As we are always concerned with your safety, it is now compulsory that you wear a helmet whilst participating in any winter sports activity to be covered on our policies. We truly believe it could save your life!

Winter Sports Equipment

Winter Sports cover also provides peace of mind against any theft, loss or damage to your personal or hired equipment as well as any pre-paid fees.

Feature	Cover Limit	Excess
Replacement or repair of equipment	up to £750	from £75
Loss or damage of hired equipment	up to £510	nil
Closed piste	up to £500	nil
Unused ski packs	up to £600	nil

Off Piste Skiing

For you thrill seekers out there, we cover off piste skiing too, but you may need to add additional Sports Cover.

• Off Piste Skiing with a guide - By adding Winter Sports to your policy you will be covered for Off Piste skiing accompanied by a guide as standard
• Off Piste Skiing without a guide - Don’t want the guide? No problem, by adding Sports Grade 4 and Winter Sports to your quote, you will be covered for off piste skiing without the assistance of a guide