Making Cents: Start planning now to help save cash on your holiday

Once the flights and accommodation are sorted, we tend to leave the rest of the planning until the last minute. And that may be costing us, writes Gráinne McGuinness.

Making Cents: Start planning now to help save cash on your holiday

The relatively late Easter means that children will no sooner have returned to school than we will be starting to think about the summer break. Many of us have booked our holidays and are already dreaming of beaches and blue skies. But once the flights and accommodation are sorted, we tend to leave the rest of the planning until the last minute. And that may be costing us.

The advice from insurance experts is that travel insurance should either be put in place as soon as the holiday is booked or else purchased on an annual ‘multi-trip’ basis. But a recent internal customer study conducted by insurance sales website Insuremyholiday.ie found that 40% of Irish holiday makers instead arranged cover just before they travelled.

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