What we cover
- Equipment
Accidentally losing, or having your owned or hired winter sports equipment damaged or stolen. - Ski pack
Illness or injury whilst on holiday preventing you using your ski pack. A ski pack includes ski-school fees or ski instructor fees, hired skis, ski boots and bindings, snowboards, snowboard boots and bindings, and the cost of any lift pass you have booked. - Ski passes
Losing or having your pass for the ski lift stolen. - Ski hire
Accidentally losing, or having your owned or hired winter sports equipment damaged or stolen. Delays of over 12 hours to your hired winter sports equipment. - Piste closure
If all the lift systems are closed for more than 12 hours as a results of high winds, or not enough or too much snow in your holiday resort. - Avalanche
Delay of more than 12 hours to your outward or return journey because of an avalanche.
- Bobsleighing
- Cat skiing
- Cross country skiing
- Freestyle skiing
- Glacier walking or trekking
- Heli-skiing
- Ice climbing under 100m (fully supervised)
- Ice fishing
- Ice hockey
- Lugeing on snow/ice
- Monoskiing
- Off piste skiing/snowboarding (except in areas considered to be unsafe by resort management)
- Recreational ski or snowboard racing
- Skeletons
- Ski acrobatics
- Ski bob racing
- Ski racing or training (nonprofessional)
- Ski stunting
- Ski touring (with a guide)
- Ski/snowboard fun parks
- Skiing
- Snow mobiling
- Snowboarding and tobogganing
Choose from four levels of cover
Red
Silver
Gold
Black
| Red | Silver | Gold | Black | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lost, stolen or damaged ski equipment (owned) (single item and hired item limits apply) | £200 (£60 excess) | £500 (£60 excess) | £1,000 (£50 excess) | £1,500 (No excess) |
| Replacement ski equipment hire (per day) (maximum payable) | £10 (up to £100) | £20 (up to £200) | £50 (up to £500) | £75 (up to £750) |
| Ski pack cover for illness or injury (per day) (hired equipment, ski-school fees and lift passes) | £50 (up to £200) | £75 (up to £300) | £75 (up to £450) | £85 (up to £510) |
| Piste closure (per day) (maximum payable) | £10 (up to £100) | £20 (up to £200) | £40 (up to £400) | £50 (up to £500) |
| Delays due to avalanche (travel & accomodation) | £150 (No excess) | £250 (No excess) | £500 (No excess) | £750 (No excess) |
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