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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 visited the United States rated the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company Essential plan
4.63 out of 5
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The trip included a
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Nationwide Mutual Insurance Essential
Appreciate that we can get a plan to insure the basic tour cost. While traveling within the United States, we don't feel it's necessary to emphasize the extra insurance for luggage, medical, etc.
Lynda B. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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Nationwide Mutual Insurance Essential
Great value for cost of plan.
Kylie M. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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Nationwide Mutual Insurance Essential
The only issue was that I didn't know that I had to buy the insurance when I made the initial payment. You are unclear as to when this occurs - is the initial payment when I make the hold payment? Or is it when I make the initial 50% of trip payment?
Richard M. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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    Thank you for your feedback on the policy. The Initial Trip Payment is the very first time any money of any kind was paid for any part of your trip. Even if the payment you made was refundable at one point in time, it is still considered the initial trip payment. The redemption of points or miles, while not an actual monetary exchange, would still constitute as an initial trip payment if they were the first transaction you made for your trip. In determining the initial trip payment date, the insurance providers claims department will request specific documentation showing the date the credit card number was provided to the travel supplier or when the check was written.
    Jun 16,2015
The trip included a
tour
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Essential
I have used Insuremy trip for some time and am totally satisfied. I did not file a claim for any thing this time,but have in the past,with no problems.
Ellen K. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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The trip included a
tour
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Essential
No claim. No reason not to be completely satisfied.
Robert P. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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Nationwide Mutual Insurance Essential
I was very glad that I had this as backup just in case I needed it!
Linda B. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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The trip included a
cruise
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Essential
If there were unforeseen issues, we knew that Nationwide would take care of them. The cost of the insurance was very reasonable.
Michael H. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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The trip included a
cruise
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Essential
We filed a trip cancellation claim due to the death of my grandfather. We received full payment in about 2 weeks with no issues.
Kevin W. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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Nationwide Mutual Insurance Essential
We needed a plan that covered pre-existing conditions. We traveled with confidence with this plan.
Kristi F. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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The trip included a
cruise
tour
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Essential
We used InsureMyTrip because we had a split stay, 6 nights Disney World, 5 nights Carnival cruise, and 3 more nights Disney World. To get insurance separately through Disney and Carnival would have cost more than double the cost of the plan we bought from Nationwide on InsureMyTrip.com. It was very easy to purchase and we got the coverage we wanted.
Kimberly L. would recommend this plan to a friend or relative.
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