Over 70 plus extended OS travel. Insurers?

[BillW]

Later this year it is my intention (covid permitting) to travel and stay in the UK and Ireland, plus stopovers (RTW or multi stop), for up to a year and preferably longer.
Fit and basically healthy in my early 70s, will there be insurers willing to cover me?
I will buy and use a vehicle over there too.

 

[tgh]

The answer to your question most likely involves a product called string and a numeric calculation

Nobody, least of all the travel industry insurers , can quantify and therefore cost the current Covid risk ,it's all unknown.
In a year or so, when the vaccine efficacy is known and the infection numbers are stable, "everyday" travel insurance cover will again be available.

 

[Daver6]

Paging @JohnM

 

[JohnM]

I agree with @tgh. The world has changed so radically nobody knows what's what. You'll have to suck it and see - and advise us, I think.

All I know from Before Covid, is that at the stoke of midnight on one's 70th birthday, insurance premiums rose sharply, irrespective of health. While I have travelled overseas since turning 70 in October 2019, it was soon after my birthday and I had bought my TI while still 69.

All my planned travel since then (but planned before Covid hit) has been cancelled and insurance premiums refunded.

The only major travel booked is a voyage along the WA coast in October. They mandate TI for medevac. I have yet to buy it.