{"id":72,"date":"2008-02-19T23:54:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T05:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-02-19T23:54:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T05:54:30","slug":"5-travel-traps-lurking-in-the-fine-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/5-travel-traps-lurking-in-the-fine-print\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Travel Traps Lurking in the Fine Print"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/wCXYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Christopher Elliott recently wrote a helpful article called &#8220;5 Travel Traps Lurking in the Fine Print&#8221;. There are some seemingly common-sense situations that could cause you a loss on a trip you&#8217;d think would, of course, be covered by the travel supplier. Not surprisingly, the companies aren&#8217;t always on your side.<\/p>\n<p>One of these traps, &#8220;Your airline isn&#8217;t responsible for your checked luggage&#8221; can be covered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/get-a-quote.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">travel insurance<\/a>. There are limits to the value of specific items that can be covered, so a good backup plan for covering your luggage is to have your valuables specially scheduled on your Homeowner&#8217;s Insurance policy.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher&#8217;s last paragraphs give you some good tips:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beyond studying the fine print, there&#8217;s only one way to not become a victim of these clever traps. Fight them. When a travel company invokes one of its ridiculous rules, let them know you don&#8217;t think these provisions are right, and that if they disagree, you&#8217;re not afraid to ask a court for a second opinion. <\/p>\n<p>Experts say some contract language is on less-than-solid legal ground and could be challenged. Now that&#8217;s something you won&#8217;t find in the fine print.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22844747\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Go here to read Christopher&#8217;s entire article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe Christopher Elliott recently wrote a helpful article called &#8220;5 Travel Traps Lurking in the Fine Print&#8221;. There are some seemingly common-sense situations that could cause you a loss on a trip you&#8217;d think would, of course, be covered by the travel supplier. Not surprisingly, the companies aren&#8217;t always on your side. One of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helpful-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}