Essential Advice For Travellers

Before You Travel

• Make sure all passports, visas, vaccinations and health requirements are up to date. Take all documents with you including travel insurance certificate.
  
• At home lock all doors and windows and cancel milk and newspapers. Don't take large quantities of cash. Take travellers cheques and/or credit cards.
  
• Leave your valuable jewellery at home: do not be a target for thieves and muggers, and don't forget most travel insurance policies have single article limits . Make sure you have with you the emergency numbers to cancel your credit cards.
  

When you are travelling or on holiday

• Don't leave your home address visible on your baggage.
  
• Keep all valuables, passports and money on you. Never pack these items in checked in baggage.
  

When you get to your destination

• Check that the tap water is safe to drink. To be sure, drink bottled water and avoid ice drinks. Check that the electrical fittings and heaters etc. in your hotel room are safe, health and safety standards are not always to the same standard we have in the UK.
  
• Never leave belongings unattended or with strangers, especially at airports, stations, on the beach or places of entertainment, or unattended in a vehicle.
  
• At your hotel, keep valuables and cash in a safe deposit box or in the hotel safe. Please remember that you must obtain a police report in the event of any loss or theft. Original documents are required in order to settle your claim. Please make sure you photocopy them before you send them to the claim adjustors.