London, UK 3rd December 2020: Travel insurance provider battleface, today announced a new winter sports add on to its Travel Medical insurance policies. The new optional winter sports insurance will provide travellers with cover for a wide range of activities including skiing, snowboarding and ice skating.

Benefits of the new Winter Sport cover include:

• Winter Sports equipment up to £750 (£500 per single article, set or pair)*
• Hired equipment is also covered (£300 per single article, set or pair)*

*subject to the policy excess

battleface travel insurance policies cover medical and emergency expenses, hospital benefit, personal accident, baggage, personal money and passport and personal liability. Available for popular winter sports destinations including FCDO advisories, policies are available for travellers up to the age of 79.

Cover includes emergency medical expenses caused by or resulting from COVID-19 for travellers up to a maximum age of 59.  

Hugh King, Director of Business Development, UK & Europe battleface comments, “We've helped thousands of tourists travel safely this summer and the response has been overwhelmingly positive.  We're very pleased to develop our policies to give travellers continued peace of mind and even more confidence when making their travel plans this winter and moving into 2021."

Participation in winter sports in a professional capacity or on a competitive basis is specifically excluded. 

battleface policies do not include cover in relation to COVID-19 expenses for trip cancellations, curtailment of a holiday or lockdowns including resort or piste closures.

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All battleface travel insurance policies cover destinations worldwide including those under government advisories

Example Quotes for Winter Sports Cover:

38 year old travelling to Bulgaria from 16/01/2021 to 23/01/2021 – total cost: £42.29
53 year old travelling to Switzerland from 9/01/201 to 16/01/2021 – total cost £56.90
Couple (25 and 27 years old) travelling to Austria from 2/01/2021 to 9/01/2021 – total cost £72.84
45 year old travelling to Japan from 30/01/2021 to 06/02/2021 – total cost £51.42
Couple (32 and 34 years old) travelling to France from 20/02/2021 to 27/02/2021 - total cost £91.34