Insurance Help

Congratulations on your news.

Did you pay with a credit card as most of them have some sort of travel insurance attached to them which might help your situation. Have a read of your CC Terms and Conditions just in case.

Sandra

Hi All,

Thanks very much for all your replies and advice. I am going to take the majority of advice and ring Virgin Atlantic at the weekend to explain the situation and see if they will change the dates of all 7 flights from October/November to next February.

My wife has already said that if she has the choice then she would choose to go to Florida with a 3 month old baby rather than when 8 months pregnant!

I will check my First Direct credit card terms and conditions to see if we have any cover for this unexpected situation! (just in case Virgin will not move the flights).

Thanks again for all your help and i will let you know the outcome once i have a resolve.

Cheers

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My wife has already said that if she has the choice then she would choose to go to Florida with a 3 month old baby rather than when 8 months pregnant!


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I certainly agree with her, and I would add "when 7 months pregnant", and "when 6 months pregnant", as they put you right in the summer... she'd feel miserable. Try to get a later date, and tell them you'll post about their generous attitude (eventually) on this forum, who knows, it may help!
Good luck and keep us posted

Nathalie

Hi All,

An update for you on our fortunate or unfortunate situation!![confused][grin]

Spoke with Virgin last night and they will move our flights for free. All we need to do is provide them with a medical letter stating that on 10th November, Melanie will be 38 ish weeks pregnant. They will then move the flights for free to next February. I could have changed them last night but without the medical letter, they will charge £50 per ticket to change. All is looking good with them.

Our villa owner has also been great and has agreed to move the dates for us once the new flights are confirmed.

Also, Roger was great about the situation and will change our booking for the car, again once the flights are confirmed. We also need an 8 seater now!!

So panic over i think due to us flying with a good airline and being part of this forum where everyone is so helpful, understands people's situations and try and make things as stress free as possible.

A big thanks for everyone's advice, help and good wishes. Florida 2010 it is then! Hope the weather is as good then, never checked!!

I will post back once all the i's are dotted and t's crossed.

Congratulations on your happy news. I am pleased to hear it has all worked out well and you have been able to alter all your arrangements.

That's a good result then hopefully Garry. The next few months are going to be so exciting with plans for the new arrival, Christmas and your first Florida family holiday.

Congratulations on your good news [msnsmile] and pleased to hear you have managed to sort out new arrangements with flights, villa and car. Hope all goes well for you and you have a great Florida holiday...... next February! I'm sure you will have a great time.

We love Feb in Florida, personally I think it is one of the nicest times of the year to be there especially with a young baby.

It is nice, bright and warm, but not hot and humid (which would probably make the baby cranky) so you can enjoy the parks without big queues and with really pleasant weather. It is a little cool in the evenings and a fleece or light coat is needed, but it soon warms up again in the mornings.

It is great to hear that Virgin have been so helpful, I guess an up front and honest approach always pays off in the end.[msnsmile2]

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Congrats.

Even if you had booked your insurance weeks ago you would still have had to tell them about the pregnancy. Any and all things have to be notified to them up to the date of travel and would be deemed and pre-existing.
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I think he meant that if he had booked an insurance [u]before</u> she became pregnant it might have helped.
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I think I understood it OK. What I was saying was that it doesn't matter when you take out your insurance the insurers HAVE to be made aware of everything before you go on holiday.

Great news then, and a big [clap][clap][clap] to Virgin, and to your owner and Roger of course.
Now you can relax and enjoy the news.
Congratulations again, and if I can make a suggestion for the baby's name, if it's a boy, you could name him Orlando :D ;)