1. One thing you don’t expect when you go on holiday is to be harassed by a monkey.
One British traveller in Gibraltar, however, was so besieged by the attentions of an over-friendly primate that he asked his insurer to refund the cost of his trip.
The insurer refused but did pay out for his camera, which the monkey had run off with one evening.
We have visited Gib and the rock apes are something to be watched
2. Monkeys also blighted the romantic getaway of a couple in Malaysia, who foolishly left the window to their chalet open during the day.
They returned to find their underwear, clothing and belongings strewn across the resort and neighbouring rainforest.
Luckily for the clothes-less couple, their insurer paid the claim.
Where's the photo proof please !!!!!
3. One unlucky pensioner managed to lose his false teeth after throwing up over the side of a cruise ship on the choppy seas of the Bay of Biscay.
Thankfully for the squeamish septuagenarian, his misplaced dentures were covered in his travel insurance policy under lost baggage, so his claim was paid.
Yuck , should of used a glue
4. Another unfortunate pensioner had to make an even more embarrassing travel claim after a stroll on the deck of a cruise ship went disastrously wrong.
The poor gentlemen was chatting with friends when a strong gust of wind lifted his toupee off his head and blew it into the sea.
He never got over the shame but at least his travel policy reimbursed the cost of his hairpiece.
Remind Mr B of a story about a manager in a hotel who leaned out of a top floor window to shout something out, the wind caught hold and I guess we could not find where it went , bit like never upset the chef that one
5. It is all too easy to lose your sunglasses, or even your passport, on holiday. Less easy, you might think, to misplace 34 large bags of Bombay mix.
Yet one holidaymaker claimed he had lost £300-worth of the spicy snack while in Europe.
At roughly 89p for a 250g bag, the misplaced mix would have weighed a hefty 84 kilograms. Needless to say, his insurance company turned him down.
But was he an Indian ?
6. One family camping in a remote field in Wales had their peace disturbed when a parachutist from a nearby airbase missed his target and scored a direct hit, landing on their tent and destroying their camping equipment.
Sadly, the family weren’t covered for accidental damage so their insurer didn’t reimburse them.
Take the guy to the cleaners and make him pay
7. Police in a holiday resort in France were on the lookout for a wrinkle-free burglar after a woman who had her cosmetics bag stolen from her hotel room admitted that she had transferred medical-strength haemorrhoid cream into an empty tub of moisturiser earlier in the holiday.
Her claim for make-up, lotions and perfume was paid.
He he
Aha done similar before.
Chocolate seems to come to mind , well laxative type wrapped up in a galaxy wrapper , poor guy but he never took it again!!!
8. A man walking along the street in Greece became so transfixed by two bikini-clad girls that he walked straight into a glass-panelled bus shelter and broke his nose.
He successfully claimed on his travel insurance for his hospital bills.
Lucky and an ok guy says Mr B
9. A chilled-out traveller in Sri Lanka needed £400 worth of hospital treatment after a large, ripe coconut fell from a tree and landed squarely on her head while she was peacefully reading below.
She was knocked out cold, which is hardly surprising.
Fresh coconuts weigh roughly 2 kilograms, and the trees grow up to 30 metres tall.
The coconut would have been falling at 53 miles per hour when it hit the poor woman on the skull.
Her insurer covered her medical expenses.
Lesson numero one , never sit under the coconut tree as they might get a little bit of newtons laws to come down upon you
10. A British backpacker was chased down the street by an angry bull in Kerala, Southern India. It wasn’t clear from his claim whether he provoked the animal, but he did require £2,800 worth of hospital treatment after the attack, which was reimbursed by his travel insurer.
Thanks to the times for these little snippets of what you can and cannot claim for
I wonder how the easy claims are doing , just speak to me if its hot drinks
Mr Blenders and Mrs Pimms
