Extending Your Trip & Buying More Travel Insurance Cover

If you decide to travel longer, we can help keep you covered!

How to buy more insurance cover if you decide to extend your trip

If you are eligible for an extension per the terms of the policy wording, simply sign into your World Nomads membership, select your current policy and follow the links to extend the return date.

You can extend your policy online as soon as your policy starts, up until 11.59pm CET/CEST on the end date shown on your Certificate of Insurance.

Your policy will be extended for the duration you choose (up to a maximum of 365 days for your total policy period) and your policy certificate will be re-issued and saved in your membership, so check this carefully.

Please ensure you extend your policy with us several days before it expires, due to time differences and possible administrative delays that may occur.

What’s not covered when you buy more cover?

If you or anyone else your trip depends, listed on your Certificate of Insurance has been sick or injured during your trip, then these medical or dental conditions occurring during your initial policy period will be considered pre-existing medical conditions in the new (extended) period of cover.

That means that any illness or injury which has come into existence, or has shown symptoms, or has been diagnosed before the extension is not covered in the extended insurance period, so any expenses related to this pre-existing condition will not be covered if you extend your trip.

When you can’t buy more cover

You won’t be able to extend your policy if it’s already expired, if you’re 70 years or older, or if you've made a claim or intend to make a claim on it. 

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