Our travel insurance for travel delays can help you get reimbursed for extra expenses like hotels, meals, or transportation.
Our travel insurance for travel delays can help you get reimbursed for extra expenses like hotels, meals, or transportation.
How our travel delay
insurance can help you
Delays can happen anywhere ... including on the road, in the air, or at sea. Our travel insurance for trip delays is here to help keep your journey moving forward.
Here's what you get with
our travel delay insurance
A short delay may not be a huge stressor, but long delays are. When your travels are delayed for five hours or longer,* our travel insurance for travel delays may help reimburse you for eligible costs, including a hotel stay, meals, and local transportation.
*Six hours with our Essential plan
Before you buy: For our most comprehensive travel insurance for trip delays, you'll want our Ultimate plan. It offers up to $2,000 in coverage (up to $250 per day).
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Why vacation with our
travel delay insurance?
You can match your coverage to your trip and move forward with a team that understands the ups, downs, and surprises of travel.
Personalize your policy
Our plans include travel delay coverage to help when your journey doesn't go as planned. You can also personalize your protection with up to nine optional upgrades (from cancel for any reason to adventure sports coverage) for even more flexibility.
25+ years' experience
For more than two decades, we've helped travelers navigate the unexpected, including flight delays, lost passports, and cruise setbacks. With us, you'll have reliable support and experience on your side when plans are put on pause.
24/7 travel support
When a delay leaves you stranded, our travel assistance provider is available around the clock to help. From finding a nearby hotel to coordinating next steps with your carrier, they're here to guide you through the delay and help you get back on schedule.
Get to know our coverage
a little bit more
Our comprehensive and on-trip plans already offer travel insurance for travel delays. With additional benefits and optional upgrades, you can tailor your coverage to match your trip.
Unpack our benefits
Our plans offer more than just travel delay insurance. They also offer baggage loss, trip cancellation, travel delay, emergency evacuation benefits, and more.
Discover our upgrades
Make your plan your own with up to nine optional upgrades. Add pet protection, boost your adventure coverage, or raise your medical limits for more confidence on the go.
Tips for handling
travel delays abroad
These guides walk you through what to do if delays disrupt your trip abroad and how to get support while you wait.
Want to know more about
our travel delay insurance?
These FAQs break down how travel insurance for travel delays can help and what to expect from your coverage.
Our travel insurance for travel delays can kick in if you've been delayed for at least five* consecutive hours. These longer delays are more likely to mean you'll need a place to stay or extra meals until your vacation resumes ... and our coverage is here to help!
When you vacation with our travel delay coverage and experience a delay of five* or more hours due to a covered reason in your policy, we can pay you back for unexpected lodging expenses, like a night in a nearby hotel. We can also reimburse the cost of your meals, telephone calls, and local transportation while you're delayed up to the benefit limit listed in your policy. If you buy our Ultimate plan, you'll even have a benefit that can help reimburse the cost of airline club admission at the airport.
Important: Remember to save all your receipts to submit with your travel delay insurance claim, so we have proof of your expenses. Plus, we won't reimburse expenses you have after travel becomes possible again and your delay ends.
*Six hours for our Essential plan
You get our travel insurance with travel delay coverage on our Essential, Advantage, Ultimate, and Travel Med Go plans. Keep in mind that each plan has a total maximum eligible amount and a daily reimbursement limit. So, don't forget to check your plan's limit before you go shopping, because we can only pay back a certain amount for each day you're delayed.
Here's the limit we can reimburse per person for travel delay-related expenses depending on the plan you choose:
Important: If travel becomes possible (meaning your airline can put you on an early flight the next morning), we can't reimburse you for any expenses after that early flight time, even if you choose to take a later flight. Our coverage is here to help when there isn't an option to continue traveling, so if an option becomes available, it's smart to jump at the chance.
Yes, our travel delay insurance can reimburse your necessary expenses while you wait if your flight is delayed. But remember, we won't pay for your delayed flight — just for your essential purchases during the delay of at least five* hours.
*Six hours for our Essential plan
Our travel delay coverage offers more than travel insurance for flight delays — it can help if you're traveling by road, rail, or sea, too. So, whether you're looking for travel insurance for a delay from a lost or stolen passport or coverage that can protect you if you're involved in a documented traffic accident on the way to the railway station or cruise port, we can help.
Our travel delay coverage can kick in if your delay of five or more hours is caused by:
Important: For our travel delay insurance to apply, your delay must be the result of one of the reasons listed above.
Looking for baggage delay travel insurance? We have it! It's offered with our baggage delay benefit that's available on our Essential, Advantage, Ultimate, Travel Med Go, and Flight Insure Plus plans. You can learn more about our baggage delay coverage on our baggage insurance for travel page.
Yes, our travel assistance provider is available 24/7 to help you if you have a travel delay. Maybe you want assistance with booking a nearby hotel or coordinating your travel arrangements. Whatever you need support with, you can call our expert travel assistance provider anytime from anywhere using the number on our assistance page or tapping the assistance button in our Travel On app.
Haven't downloaded our app yet? It's a great travel companion providing real-time safety alerts to help you avoid nearby risks, useful destination information, and easy access to your policy documents.
Ready to get travel delay insurance?