[thechat] Travel Insurance, New York and Big Brother

Martin martin at easyweb.co.uk
Mon May 19 04:35:24 CDT 2003


On Mon, 19 May 2003, Norman Beresford wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Off to NYC on Thursday, although we've still not booked.  At the moment it
> looks like we'll be staying in the Helmsley Middletowne Hotel, so if anyone
> has any scare stories about it please let me know as soon as possible.
> We're booking through Expedia, but they want £76 for their travel insurance.
> We've got to go to South Africa later this year, so wondered if we'd be
> better off looking for insurance through a third party which will cover us
> for a year.  Also is £76 quite high for single trip insurance for a couple?


Yes. You're much better to get an annual policy. I get mine bundled
with my bank account: http://yurel.com/d63 and you can walk into Boots and
pick up something similar.

> The next bit is rather sad.....as Big Brother is starting again on Friday
> (thats the UK version) I was wondering if anyone knew of any places in NYC
> that might be showing it live.

/me despairs... :-p

Cheers
Martin

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