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Fast Cover
Fast Cover
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Kervin Mathew
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Long story short
Award-winning Aussie travel insurance
Since 2015, Fast Cover has won nearly 50 awards for travel innovation, customer service, and even being named Australia’s best travel insurance company at the 2024 Finance Derivative Awards.
Coverage for any travel style
From backpacking and skiing, to cruising and domestic trips, Fast Cover offers policies tailored to a variety of travel types and needs.
User-friendly and quick
Fast Cover’s website makes finding, buying, and managing travel insurance simple and fast with clear information and minimal fuss.
24/7 emergency support
With call centres in Sydney and the Gold Coast, Fast Cover offers round-the-clock assistance for travel emergencies, wherever you are in the world.
Flexible claims process
Get help with anything from hospitalisation to lost luggage. Make a claim with ease via Fast Cover’s website, by phone, or email.
Who is Fast Cover?
Fast Cover is an Aussie-owned and operated travel insurance provider offering a broad range of products designed to safeguard you and your family from the potential perils of travelling – like medical emergencies, trip cancellations or lost baggage.
Founded in 2010 by travel-happy CEO Dean Van Es, Fast Cover aims to provide quality insurance that’s also easy to understand. The insurer has been making a name for itself in recent years by bagging awards across multiple categories, including best CEO in travel insurance.
Why consider Fast Cover for your travel insurance?
Fast Cover understands the amount of time and preparation that goes into travel planning. With that in mind, they’ve made it their mission to speed up and simplify the process of buying travel insurance for the millions of Australians who love to make the world their backyard.
What are some benefits of insuring with Fast Cover?
Simple and easy
Fast Cover prioritises customer experience through its user-friendly website which aims to provide clear and concise information along with a fast and simple purchasing process.
Multi-award winner
Since 2015, Fast Cover has consistently won awards (nearly 50 of them). Their achievements range from bringing exceptional value and quality to customers, through to providing outstanding customer service or innovation in insurance and even (according to the 2024 Finance Derivative Awards) literally being the best travel insurance company in Australia.
Made for everyone
You could be backpacking through Europe, cruising the seas with your family or even living a retiree’s dream of motorhome-ing your way across Australia. There’s always something to choose from Fast Cover’s list of policy options.
24/7 emergency assistance
Laser-focused on the customer experience, Fast Cover operates call centres in Sydney and on the Gold Coast, including a 24-hour emergency assistance helpline.
What types of plans or policies does Fast Cover offer?
Whether it’s a ski-trip to Hakuba in Japan or the Sapa Loop motorbike tour in north Vietnam, Fast Cover has a variety of travel insurance plans to help ensure that no traveller gets left behind. It’s almost a case of ‘you name it, and they have it’. Here are some of the many policies that Fast Cover offers:
Backpacker
Braving the world to find perspective or to simply find yourself, backpacking can be a rite of passage for many. You can get coverage when you’re volunteering, on a backpacking holiday or even a working holiday visa.
Skiing
Sure, skiing accidents are funny in a slapstick cartoon. In real life, ski injuries are no laughing matter. Get coverage for your snow trips including ones that involve skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling and heli-skiing.
Seniors
The travel bug can bite at any age, especially when the kids are off living their own lives and you have all that spare time on your hands. Travellers aged 60 to 89 can get travel insurance tailored specifically for older travellers.
Cruise holidays
When you ditch dry land to float away on a cushion of blue, getting insurance that is specifically designed to cover cruise holidays can help you relax; really relax. Fast Cover has policies that offer protection in both Australian and international waters.
Domestic
Even if you want to keep the festivities closer to home, Fast Cover offers domestic travel insurance plans with coverage that can include trip cancellation, lost or damaged luggage, personal liability and a 24/7 emergency assistance helpline.
Partner tip:
Don’t leave taking out travel insurance to the last minute. You can take out a policy up to 12 months in advance or even after you’ve set off on your holiday. Taking out a policy before you start spending on your trip can help cover you in the event of a cancellation.
Frequently asked questions
What destinations can I get cover for?
Fast Cover offers travel insurance plans that can help protect you across an extensive list of holiday destinations in Australia and overseas. Here are some of the more popular ones:
- Indonesia including Bali
- Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
- India, China and Japan
- Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam
- Egypt and Morocco
- Italy, Spain and Portugal
- France, Germany, Greece and the Netherlands
Your wanderlust is certainly not limited to these destinations, not with the world being your oyster and all. It would be worth checking with Fast Cover which other countries are included in your policy.
The savvy traveller would also do well to check Smartraveller for the latest travel advice and helpful guides on choosing travel insurance.
How do I make a claim with Fast Cover?
Fast Cover offers three options when it comes to making a claim.
- Lodge claims on the Fast Cover website
- Send them an email
- On the phone in Australia (1300 409 322) or from overseas (+61 2 8215 7239)
Your claim could be health-related, due to loss, theft, damage or misplacement of your luggage, or liability, to name a few. It’s important to remember that lodging a claim can come with certain conditions such as a time limit of 24 hours for reporting missing luggage to the police.
Consider the right policy for your needs and familiarise yourself with the Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) to ensure that your journey, whether a thousand steps or more, starts off on the right foot.
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