Cras wrote:
MrChris wrote:
Well, that's our trip to New Zealand in a fortnight potentially buggered, depending on what they mean by "self isolate", as we are planning on being in the middle of nowhere anyway! Guy from NZ immigration I spoke to seemed to think it wouldn't prevent us from turning up, staying in a cottage and hiking, and the "self isolate" isn't policed as such (although we are fairly used to social distancing now in Singapore and happy to keep doing so). Will be speaking to immigration again on Monday to see if they've updated the requirements.... otherwise this is thousands of dollars down the drain :-/
I assume insurance would cover actually not being able to go on the trip?
Sadly not, no - they have exemptions you could drive a small country through. "Governmental action" being one of them (e.g. NZ announcing they won't allow foreigners in). Ridiculously, we'd be more likely to be able to claim if one of us got seriously ill with COVID before we travel. I have, being a lawyer, read the policy terms. I would have a go, obviously, but insurance companies are fairly good at relying on their policy terms to not pay out.
That said, Air New Zealand have said that they'll refund people who can't travel due to travel restrictions, so if things get bad we can recover that bit at least, hopefully. Although I expect that ANZ will be in a fairly shit state in a week or two so who knows how much they'll be able to stand behind that.