LatinBeauty813

davfitz

You have asked a very good question, to which I don't think I can provide a specific answer.

You do not state the circumstances of your travel: licensed or otherwise. Your best bet will be to ask whoever your travel arranger / provided is.

I assume that you are mainly interested in medical coverage. Travel insurance of the medical kind is a very good idea. Despite Cuba's vaunted health care system, it'd not a good place to become ill or injured.

Please come back and post what your solution is. Good luck!

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LatinBeauty813

So far the only one I have been able to find is the one offered in Cuba by Cuba. http://www.asistur.cu/insurances.php#segin

I would rather not go that route but if I have to I will. My main concern is my son and having him covered while there. I will continue looking for maybe a company in Canada that will cover me (an american) in Cuba. A couple of the ones I have called here in the US want the copy of my license to travel to Cuba from the Dept of Treasury.

Anyone out there have any recommendation?

Canadaianbird

I would speak to a travel agent.
I am sure a Canadian Travel agent can sell an American insurance. Check out Cruise ship centers.


http://www.cruiseshipcenters.com/

mailto:request@cruiseshipcenters.com

Better yet, I added the request info link for the email.
The agent that does our corporate travel is with these guys. If your stuck, post here and I will ask her.

Yanita

Hola LB. I agree you should have some travel insurance for your son and yourself. Unfortunately I don't think you can get covered by a Canadian company (I am Canadian). I got extra travel insurance through the motor association here in British Columbia. Perhaps there is something like that in Florida.

On two of my trips I suffered an injury. One I didn't treat medically, slightly sprained foot, and just used ice/heat and elastic bandage to ease the pain, luckily it was not severe sprain, but a 'pain' in the 'foot', nevertheless.

This past trip, I did not take enough contact lense solution with me, and contracted conjunctivitis (pink eye), and it is too long a story, but it was bad, and I was in el campo in Granma province and did not get proper treatment until I got back to Havana two days later.

There is a special eye clinic for foreigners that I went to, and YES, it should be for everyone, that I am totally aware of, but it probably saved my eyesight, as I still had a contact in one eye, I thought it was torn and had moved in my eye or was out...anyway, I did give my medical number to the nurse and they plugged it into computer. I paid $40 CUC for the consultation and a mere $1.50 for the eye drops.

I imagine if you paid a larger fee, you would get treatment there anyway, without insurance, not sure though.

Hopefully this will not happen to you or your son.

I have a Cuban goddaughter in Santiago de Cuba, and her younger sister had to go into hospital just before I left Stg. de Cuba, and it was not the best place to be, although it was clean, bare necessities. She was okay, had her adenoids removed, and the doll I took her, seemed to ease the pain.

No es facil en Cuba, so I hope you get an answer here. I would think that PP might know something about insurance for Cuba.

Yanet aka Yanita