| You understand that travel insurance will cover you if | | | | of wind... his custom made toupee. These can be |
| something unfortunate happens while you are | | | | pricey - it was at least worth the cost of the |
| overseas - if you have a heart attack, if your hotel | | | | £50 excess on his policy. |
| burns down with your suitcases in it, or if your rental | | | | 4. Travellers are coco-nuts |
| car is stolen, insurance will probably take care of it. | | | | A travel insurance company in the UK known as |
| Travel insurance will cover your return trip if your | | | | Direct Line received a claim for two coconuts lost |
| hotel ends up being infested by fleas, and will cover | | | | during travel, costing 69p each from ordinary UK |
| you for goats eating your identity documents. | | | | supermarkets. If the claim hadn't been rejected, the |
| However, some odd travel insurance claims must be | | | | couple would have paid the first £50 of any |
| rejected. We were going to list the top 4, but found | | | | claims on their insurance. |
| there were just too many hilarious travel - insurance | | | | 5. This guitar is a lemon |
| claims to stop there. | | | | Direct Line has its fair share of odd travel insurance |
| 1. Monkey madness | | | | claims, once receiving a claim for a guitar made out |
| A couple staying in Malaysia left the window of their | | | | of a pumpkin. The claim was rejected, perhaps on |
| chalet open when they went out, and returned to | | | | the basis of confusing information. |
| find that monkeys had entered and stolen many of | | | | 6. A goat's idea of Black Forest cake |
| their clothes and personal belongings... only to leave | | | | A family staying the Black Forest in Germany in a |
| them lying around the adjacent jungle. The claim was | | | | chalet left the door open, and came home to find |
| paid. | | | | that wild goats living in the forest had come in and |
| 2. Sick of the sea | | | | eaten their wallets and passports. This claim was |
| An elderly gentleman on a cruise ship suffered from | | | | rejected, despite being quite similar to the one in |
| some terrible seasickness. He was vomiting over the | | | | Malaysia which was approved. |
| side, minding his own business when his false teeth | | | | 7. Is it a bird? |
| came out of his mouth and splashed into a watery | | | | A family camping in a remote area of Wales had |
| grave. He claimed the cost of replacement teeth on | | | | some fair costs incurred on them by a stray |
| his travel insurance, and the claim was paid. | | | | parachutist that landed on their tent, destroying their |
| 3. Toupee, or not toupee? | | | | camping equipment. The family did not have |
| A man chatting to his friends on the beach lost | | | | accidental damage cover as part of their travel |
| several hundred pounds worth of something in a gust | | | | insurance, so footed the bill. |