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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Andrew Penman

Older holidaymakers face 'prohibitive' travel insurance costs

The summer holiday Alan ­Harrison had planned was to explore mainland Europe using his seniors’ Interrail pass.

Like many older people, he’d found travel insurance hugely expensive – his policy bought through Holiday Extras cost him £540.

When he told the company that his blood pressure medication had been changed, it wanted another £560, even though the policy only had 92 days left to run.

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