{"id":3135,"date":"2010-09-09T07:42:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T15:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.TripInsuranceStore.com\/blog\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2010-09-09T07:42:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T15:42:30","slug":"is-it-worth-insuring-a-timeshare-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/is-it-worth-insuring-a-timeshare-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Worth Insuring a Timeshare Stay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><a title=\"Subscribe to my Wall Street Journal Recommended Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/wCXYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe here<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Since I am exchanging my timeshare for this trip, I have included my assessment (plus the exchange fees) in the total trip cost. However, if assessments cannot be used as part of my expenses, the total is only $497.37. The exchange fees were $348. Btw, I am driving to the resort and I don&#8217;t need medical coverage. What dollar amount do I insure?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not worth insuring your timeshare stay because neither the assessments nor the exchange fees are insurable as trip costs.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, since you don&#8217;t need medical coverage, that&#8217;s another reason not to get trip insurance for this trip.<\/p>\n<p>And, in case you need one more reason not to get trip insurance for this trip, here it is: you are driving and it&#8217;s nearly impossible to have a successful travel delay claim when you are not using a common carrier for your transportation to and from your destination.<\/p>\n<p>For your future trips, keep in mind that you can insure the airfare you paid to get to your destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe here Since I am exchanging my timeshare for this trip, I have included my assessment (plus the exchange fees) in the total trip cost. However, if assessments cannot be used as part of my expenses, the total is only $497.37. The exchange fees were $348. Btw, I am driving to the resort and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-steve-dasseos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}