Travel insurance for Costa Rica vacations

While travel insurance is not required to visit Costa Rica, it’s recommended you consider coverage for your trip. Your journey may not always unfold as anticipated, and if something surprising does happen, travel insurance coverage can help safeguard you from financial risk and offer necessary support from travel experts during your time abroad.

Before your trip to Costa Rica, it’s a good idea to continuously check travel alerts posted by the U.S. Department of State on its travel advisories website.

If there are travel advisories that may affect your travel insurance coverage, you may find them on Travelex’s travel alerts page.

Travelex policyholders can also stay in-the-know with live security alerts while in Costa Rica via the Travelex Travel On app.

Travel insurance for your Costa Rica cruise can help your finances stay afloat if something goes wrong during your trip. Whether your cruise schedule changes, you fall ill or sustain an injury while traveling, or you fail to catch a connecting flight, having the appropriate travel insurance for a Caribbean cruise can assist in compensating for the expenses of unused non-refundable travel reservations, healthcare costs, stolen personal possessions, and more.

Even if your ship departs from the U.S., travel insurance can offer valuable protection.  

Booking a cruise? Consider travel insurance for your Costa Rica trip and check out Travelex’s Travel Select and Travel Basic plans. 

Zip lining through the rainforest, canyoning in Monteverde, or scuba diving in the Cocos Islands? You may want to make sure the adventure activities you have on your itinerary are included in your travel insurance for Costa Rica.

Here’s the silver lining: Whether you choose Travelex’s Travel Select plan or Travel Basic plan, you can have coverage for certain activities. Both plans include protections for scuba diving (up to a depth of 60 ft), kayaking, canyoning, river rafting, snorkeling, horseback riding, hiking, and more.

Are you thinking about trying other thrilling activities like zip-lining and sky diving during your trip to Costa Rica? If you’re interested in an activity that isn’t included in either base plan, it’s recommended that you look into the adventure sports upgrade, which can be added to the Travel Select plan.

Still not clear on adventure sports coverage? Reach out to Travelex customer service to learn more about coverage for your adventure activities and make sure they’re included in your travel insurance plan for Costa Rica.

You can’t anticipate everything, and something may come up before your vacation that puts it at risk.

If you want the flexibility to be able to call off your trip and be reimbursed with up to 75% of your covered trip costs (up to $7,500), consider adding Travelex’s cancel For any reason upgrade to the Travel Select plan. It lets you cancel for any reason at all up to 48 hours before your trip is scheduled to start, so you can avoid losing your entire trip investment.

Want to know how to be eligible for reimbursement with this optional upgrade? You will need to:

• Insure all of your non-refundable trip costs (up to a maximum of $10,000) with your policy at the time of purchase;

• Have a trip length of 30 days or less; and

• Purchase the cancel for any reason upgrade with your initial base plan and within 15 days of the initial payment made for your trip.

If you plan on stopping in several countries on your next trip, you should list your destination on your travel insurance policy as the location you will be spending the most time in. For instance, if you plan a vacation where you will visit Costa Rica for seven days and Nicaragua for three days, you should list Costa Rica as your destination.

You will still have coverage for the entirety of your trip, if you are not traveling to a sanctioned destination that Travelex does not offer coverage for.

If you have pre-existing medical condition(s), you may be concerned that they’ll cause you problems during your trip to Costa Rica. Travelex’s Travel insurance for Costa Rica may offer protection for pre-existing medical conditions if all the following requirements are met:

• You purchase the Travel Select plan within the “early purchase window,” which is the 15 days after your first trip payment;  

• You buy the same amount of travel insurance coverage as the cost of all nonrefundable deposits and payments made before your trip; 

• You add coverage to your policy for any additional costs within 15 days of the subsequent purchase; and 

• Everyone insured under the policy can medically travel at the point the policy is bought. 

Under the Travelex pre-existing medical condition exclusion waiver, the trip cancellation and trip interruption benefits coverage will be limited to 100% of the insured trip cost, up to a maximum of $50,000. 

Some credit cards may provide travel insurance, but the plans offered can have lower benefit limits and you may have to meet certain requirements before receiving coverage. When you need travel insurance, consider going straight to the experts for broader coverage and a support from travel specialists. Travelex’s travel protection plans can offer several key benefits, such as possible coverage for pre-existing medical conditions, plus 24/7 emergency assistance.