Cheap Student Travel Insurance

No one expects to get sick or injured on the road, but as we all know – in life (and especially in travel), anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Luckily, there are loads of cheap students travel insurance options to keep you covered for those just-in-case situations.

Maybe you sprain your ankle while hiking the Swiss Alps, or cut your hand on a rock climb in Israel, or get stung by a jellyfish in Australia – You’ll be able to find some cheap student travel insurance to help you out. Remember travel insurance doesn’t help if you don’t have it, so do your research before you leave.

Here are a couple of cheap student travel insurance companies listed on www.Studenttraveler.com to get you started. For the full list, click here, or hit the web and do your own research.

Travmed.com
This is a most helpful site, providing you with everything you need to know about staying healthy while traveling. Travel Medicine gives travelers with a wide selection of clinics all over the U.S. that provide the necessary vaccinations and advisories for your trip. Not quite sure what vaccinations you need? Search through their disease risk database that provides information about diseases for over 200 countries and regions. A travel checklist for medical and personal care items makes it easy for travelers to know exactly what to shop for and Travel Medicine sells most of these items such as antibiotics, water purifiers to sterile needle kits.

Accessamerica.com
Named one of Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine’s Top 50 Service Agencies, Access America provides travelers with a broad spectrum of insurance plans. They offer specially designed plans that cater to road trips, luxury and basic traveling. For the last-minute traveler, who won’t need coverage for trip cancellation, Access America offers the “Quick Trip Protector” to cover your health and belongings while traveling. Each plan can be tailored to your needs from basic to the comprehensive. Claims can be easily filed online, by mail or phone. Access America also provides users with referrals to legal services.

SquareMouth.com
Formerly QuoteTravelInsurance.com, this site claims to provide the world’s number one multi-insurer online travel insurance. Carrying 10 different insurance companies and offering more than 60 travel plans, it guarantees users quotes only from companies that meet their standards, provide competitive prices and excellent service. They also have the policy that companies who receive complaints that cannot be resolved with total satisfaction will be removed from their carrier list. Once you purchase a plan they respond swiftly by sending you a confirmation e-mail with your policy number, as well as a hard copy in the mail. With these criteria, travelers should rest assured that they are dealing only with the best.

Travelguard.com
Travel Guard International provides a Student/Young Adult plan that caters to US and international students under 29 years old. In addition to regular medical and travel coverage, Travel Guard offers services that make your trip a lot easier. Live Travel is a 24-hour travel agent that helps travelers arrange emergency trips or last-minute changes such as booking or rebooking flights, ground transportation and hotel reservations. Emergency Relay Message makes sure your important phone calls and e-mails reach your friends and family. Their basic Student Guard plan offers unique services such as translation, legal referrals and even bail bond assistance for those really wild spring breaks in Cancun.

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Student travel Agencies

Student travel agencies make it easier (and cheaper) than ever to plan and book your trip abroad. Many student travel agencies put together package deals, book flights, tours, and cruises and help you with everything else you need to get on the road!

Still, would-be student travelers should be wary - the internet is full of discount airfare websites, all purporting to offer the best deals from A to B. Students looking to snag a good deal should do their research and find websites that offer student discounts, and not just cheap fares. Some so-called student discount travel agencies really just offer the same discounts as all the other websites, so it’s worth taking the time to compare and find the best deal.

One of the most popular discount student travel agencies is STA Travel. STA offers an easy to use website so you can find the best fare possible. They also have information on purchasing an International Student Identification Card (ISIC) that will help you get discounts on your airfare, youth hostels, museum entrance fees, and many other things on the road.

Travel CUTS is another great online discount student travel agency, offering some great deals on tickets all over the world. Some current deals include Baltimore to Stockholm for $247, Miami to London for $297, and Los Angeles to Brisbane for $899.

Student Universe, whose motto is: “Students Fly Cheaper”, is another great online resource for discount airfare. This web-based student travel agency has a great website and some great deals to back it up. At the time of this posting, they are offering flights from Fort Lauderdale to Cancun for $181, and From Seattle to Amsterdam for $389. Student Universe also offers car rental deals for students as young as 18, deals starting at $17 a day.

Check Student Traveler each week for all the best airfares from the top student travel agencies. Check out the discount airfares here.

Student Travel

Student travel has seen a huge boom in recent years. From study abroad to internships abroad to spring break packages and summer backpacking trips through Europe, students are starting to make travel a big part of their lifestyle.

Some statistics show that there are currently 14.3 million students enrolled in over 5,000 colleges in the USA alone, and that each year over 715,000 (or 5%) of these students spend $2.1 billion in the travel sector. That’s a lot of money being spent by an often overlooked slice of the market. In fact, students are often looked at as too young, too busy, and too broke to be travelers of any worth, but in reality, the student travel market represents 23% of the entire travel market. Students took over two million trips last year!

This is why outlets like Student Traveler Magazine exist – because students travel, and because they need quality travel information on destinations, and they want inspiring stories from other student travelers. Students want information on spring break trips to South America, and they want tips on how to set up their own backpacking euro trip. They want information on hot destinations like Eastern Europe, South East Asia, Australia, and even the Middle East.

Student Travel is big, and its only getting bigger.

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