Welcome to the Roller Caribbean blog podcast, where we can look into the world of Roller Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 510.

What should you look for and know about travel insurance, especially if you're looking to book it, is it worth it?

And what are the most important things about it?

We're talking about the most important things to know about travel insurance before you buy up next.

Oftentimes I talk about it's a really good idea

to have travel insurance as part of your cruise planning process

and I usually just leave it just at that.

I mention it and kind of leave it up to you to find it.

But inevitably a lot of people

have questions about travel insurance because they're not sure where to start, where they make

certain assumptions about it. There's questions about the issues altogether. And quite frankly,

even I admit, it can be a little cumbersome, especially if you're new to buying travel

insurance, why you should get it, how it works, and what you should look for, really, because they're not all the same. And I am not a travel insurance expert by any means. So actually,

I have an opportunity to bring Stan Sandberg on to the podcast, who is the co-founder of

Travel Insurance.com. Stan, welcome to the podcast. Well, thank you very much for having me, Matt.

I'm very happy to be here.

Great. You know, travel insurance is, when I first started cruising, Stan, I never got it. I thought it was,

I don't say a waste of money, but I just thought like, I don't need travel insurance. I'll be fine.

And then, of course, sooner or later, we ran into a cruise in which we really could have used travel insurance. And I feel like these days with whether it's a hurricane, whether it's just airlines in general,

it could be the middle of spring and you get like a Southwest issue, right, where the airlines just,

you know, swore in the place today.

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