Travel Guard Reviews

Travel Guard

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  • travel guard a must especially traveling out of country

    Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Aug 13, 2012
    Pros: travel guard is especially helpful in the medical portion of the insurance and trip interruption
    Cons: they may deny, but you can always appeal

    Summary: I dont buy my travel guard from a third party, as soon as I get my tickets I call travel guard on my own.  And I ask a lot of questions I also make up all kinds of scenario, I do this to make sure everything is covered all calls are recorded so take ... read more

  • DON'T DO IT!

    Not Yet Rated by the Epinions community
    Mar 2, 2012
    Pros: I have nothing good to say about Travelguard.
    Cons: Travelguard is a false safety net for travel insurance.  Don't waste your money.

    Summary: Whatever you do, do not buy Travelguard Insurance.  My husband and I were in Europe the fall of 2011 and my X husband of 24 years died back in the United States.  We were on a riverboat cruise just about to enter the Danube River.  We ... read more

  • Travel Guard is a SCAM operation - BEWARE

    Not Yet Rated by the Epinions community
    Jan 29, 2012
    Pros: Nice web site.
    Cons: Fraud, fraud, fraud and chicanery.

    Summary: I had a medical emergency while overseas. I had been issued an iNext card by my employer, and iNext is a front for Travel Guard. Despite having filled in an application form for the iNext card, when I telephoned the iNext number I found myself in the ... read more

  • Someone needs to sue them

    Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Apr 17, 2011
    Pros: Covers you if you happen to be hit by a meteor while traveling.
    Cons: Doesn't cover much else.

    Summary: I would, but I have one too many suits going on right now.Here's the deal: I paid for their policy while booking a cruise--thinking if someone in my family got sick when the cruise happened, we'd be covered if we needed to cancel. What I didn't ... read more

  • TravelGuard does their best to avoid claims

    Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Jul 26, 2010
    Pros: They sound good on paper
    Cons: They will do whatever they can to not pay claims.

    Summary: First off, note that the one 5* review here admits they they sell travelguard insurance. Insurance company employees frequently are told to make up glowing reviews, but it is notable that this 5* reviewer actually said they were working for travelguard. ... read more

  • Rental car insurance - claim denied

    Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Sep 11, 2009
    Pros: Talk all friendly - but don't deliver
    Cons: SCAM - they take the money and run

    Summary: I thought I had purchased the rental car agency's insurance, but they got me - it only looked like I was buying it from Thrifty on the website.  Another driver scraped my bumper in a parking lot, paint damage 4" long, and left the scene, and I was ... read more

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  • Avoid Travel Guard; this company is Travel FRAUD

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    Mar 27, 2013
    Pros: Variety of insurance options to lure customers
    Cons: They won’t  honor agreement & will deny claims

    Summary: Don’t waste your time & money. Travel Guard will deny the claim anyway. Their tactic is to delay as much as possible and then deny claim. This company name should be Travel FRAUD.  Buy insurance  from other insurance

  • DO NOT USE

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    Mar 18, 2013
    Pros: nuthin'
    Cons: why buy their travel insurance if i have to ring unrelated insurance companies....?????

    Summary: I had a damaged piece of luggage from my holiday...Travel Guard said that replacement or repair was covered in the policy...anywayZ, when i rang, I was told to ring my home insurance provider and see if it was covered by them first, and if not, then

  • Travel-ocity & Travel-guard equals Trave-sty!

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    Feb 13, 2013
    Pros: I have extra paper to put in my compost.
    Cons: Waste of time and money.

    Summary: Very long story short:  trip planned, date had to be changed for travel, then finally, the trip cancelled due to serious illness and the doctors' insistence on no flights which could cause further serious problems.I

  • Class Action Lawsuit

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    Sep 28, 2012
    Pros: Attention Lawyers, please file class action lawsuit.
    Cons: Consider yourself warned.

    Summary: I am surprised there is not currently a class action lawsuit against Travel Guard, due to the abundance of review websites stating that Travel Guard has not honored claims.  Their strategy is to make it next to impossible to be rewarded funds from a

  • Run from Travel Guard Trip Insurance..

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    Aug 16, 2012
    Pros: I have found nothing good about Travel Guard.
    Cons: Travel Guard has horrible customer service. 

    Summary: I had to change my travel date to six weeks earlier.   Travel Guard hosed me by upping the cost by more than 1/3.   I changed from a late August 2013 date to mid-July.   The desination was the same and the covered amount was the same.

  • Travel Guard - Run Away QUICKLY

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    Jul 18, 2012
    Pros: None
    Cons: There insurance is worthless!!!

    Summary: I just received a denial on my claim for cancellation of a 15 day Mediterranean Cruise.  I was hospitalized for 3 weeks, but the denied the claim as an exclusion.  Now, I am out over

  • Shame that Travelocity uses this company

    Rated Show by the Epinions community
    Jun 22, 2012
    Pros: a scam
    Cons: claim process requirements are so prohibitive that you cant even get started...

    Summary: Dad had to cancel tickets as he had heart attack 2 weeks before travel. Yet, he could never file claim since the required paperwork was all fictitious imagination created to avoid the claims being filed. I am sure i can drag them to court but i do not

  • Read the fine print

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    May 23, 2012
    Pros: There are a  select few reasons that qualify as acceptable reasons for trip interruption coverage.
    Cons: Buyer beware!!!  Mechanical failure and no flight crew are not on their list!

    Summary: I had purchased trip interruption coverage on my last trip to the Dominican Republic.  On my return flight, I had a flight cancelled because of "no flight crew".  I submitted my claim to Travel Guard thinking that this was a 'no brainer' as far

  • Such a WASTE!!!!! Don't buy!

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    Apr 2, 2012
    Pros: Nothing.  This is the biggest waste of money.  Don't use Travel Guard.
    Cons: If you love getting ripped off, go with a company like Travel Guard.  

    Summary: I purchased Travel Guard insurance for my airline ticket to China incase I got sick and couldn't make the flight. Turns out I did get sick, and thinking I would be fine to be reimbursed for my trip, I canceled the ticket.  I made a

  • Travel Guard is a Major Rip Off and FRAUD

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    Feb 29, 2012
    Pros: There are NO PRO's for this RIP OFF Company.
    Cons: The fine print is written in a way they will never reimburse

    Summary: Purchased a ticket to Manila via Cheapoair and purchaed the insurance for $55 which stated was for rebooking, cancellation

  • Learned the Hard Way

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    Feb 16, 2012
    Pros: No Pros
    Cons: Ripoff

    Summary: My claim was denied even though I was diagnosed with breast cancer because my mammogram was prior to purchasing my airline tickets. They gave me two options, 1) if anybody else was ill at that time or 2) ask the airlines if they would still honor the

  • Avoid! They will rip you off one way or another!

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    Feb 7, 2012
    Pros: Friendly at first
    Cons: They're scam artists disguised as an insurance agency!

    Summary: Had to cancel our trip due to a serious injury to a child. Travel Guard initially paid our claim after we provided proof. However, months later they claim they paid us too much and demanded repayment. IF there was an overpayment, it was clearly THEIR

  • No protection at all, WARNING do not get any travel guard,

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    Jan 12, 2012
    Pros: No pros at all, WARNING do not get any travel guard,
    Cons:  WARNING, STAY AWAY FROM TRAVEL GUARD, its a false system you are not protected.

    Summary: It looks like  I had a pre existing  condition, ( I coughed) one day before my flight,  and then just before my flight I had the flu and canceled my flight, So I was called a pre existing  condition and my claim

  • Frustrating and not worth it

    Not rated yet by the Epinions community
    Dec 4, 2011
    Pros: None
    Cons: Everything - DO NOT BUY FROM THIS COMPANY

    Summary: I had an accident on a recent trip; the medical people were great.  However upon my return the claims process was and still is a nightmare.  I had sent the vast majority of the paperwork before I returned home and 3 weeks later I'm still

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