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Travel Insurance Reviews Nationwide Essential

The Essential plan from Nationwide Mutual Insurance is for travelers planning trips on a budget who don't want to sacrifice coverage. Coverages include Trip Cancellation and Interruption, Medical, Emergency Medical Evacuation, and Assistance Services.

To learn more, see the Nationwide Essential trip insurance product page.

Customers who have taken a cruise rated the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company Essential plan
4.69 out of 5
3,265
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97%
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Overall the process is simple to navigate, but slow due to the excusive email approach. There should be a phone number easily accessible to provide a more person service.
Rodney H. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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I'm glad I did not have to use the plan not sure how hard it would be but it's nice to know there is some help if things went south
David T. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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Would have liked missed port coverage.
JOHN K. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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I have never purchased trip insurance, but since I have some health issues so decided to buy it. It was a comfort to know I would have help should I need it. Thank you.
Rebecca S. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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Price is just too high for two seniors trying to enjoy retirement. Please consider lowering prices for us.
Hilda G. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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Trip Insurance through Nationwide was easy to book and less expensive than through the travel agent. Very pleased that I had what I needed for a reasonable price! Highly recommend👍
Mary Ann N. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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We've purchased Nationwide Essentials policies for about five trips. Our most recent was the first for which we had to cancel the trip and make a claim. It turned out that we over-insured, because the pre-existing condition waiver, which we wanted, requires all non-refundable prepayments to be insured, and I wasn't aware that our airfare bought through the cruise line, plus the prepaid specialty dinners and excursions, were refundable from the cruise line. So our claim was only for about 50% of our insured amount. I made sure to provide the claim dept with all the details requested. They never responded by email after I submitted the claim, but instead just mailed a check for the claimed amount, so that was a nice "surprise" when it arrived. My only complaint was one claims dept phone rep; I called two days after emailing in all the documentation, because I wanted to make sure they received everything I sent, and that they could read the documents. The rep was not helpful, and just kept telling me they had 15 days to respond to my claim. He also first told me they hadn't received my claim form, which turned out not to be true. After quite a round-about discussion, he finally looked at some of the documents (he didn't seem to want to be bothered to check them all for me), and the one that I sent as Word doc instead of a PDF was unreadable, so I re-sent it as a PDF. This unhelpful rep was an unusual experience, because I spoke to several other folks in the claims department before I filed the claim, and they were able to answer my questions for me. If I needed to, I would have called back to get a better rep to help me. Also the InsureMyTrip chat staff has always be extremely helpful and knowledgeable, both during my insurance purchases, and when I had questions about my claim.
Susan N. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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Knowing I had my Nationwide Insurance policy available if needed for my lengthy trip was a great feeling. I trust in Insure My Trip and Nationwide.
Melissa C. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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Plan provided the coverage i wanted at a very fair price.
Glad I did not need to use it.
john J. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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It felt good knowing that we had coverage. We did miss our connecting flight and knowing that we were protected in case our luggage was lost put us at ease.
Jesse S. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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