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Travel

Travel

  • Arranging medical treatment
  • Removing travel-related difficulties
  • Extensive international network
  • Hotline available 24 hours a day
  • A group of coordinators speaking 10 foreign languages

In Europe, the number of people travelling  abroad has doubled in the past 25 years, and an annual growth of nearly 5% is expected. In parallel to this, the demand for assistance services for clients getting into difficulties abroad has been constantly increasing. Europ Assistance Hungary has been addressing this need, in particular for travel insurance, by providing assistance for international and domestic travel, and for health issues.

Travel information
  • useful information before leaving
  • air, train and bus timetables
  • weather and cultural information for the target country
  • addresses and phone numbers of Hungarian embassies
  • information on preventive vaccination and immunization
  • passport and visa requirements / entry information
  • Hungary Direct numbers
  • weather forecast for four days in advance
  • information regarding credit cards to be cancelled
  • emergency interpreting over the phone in case of problems abroad
  • hotel addresses
Travel assistance
  • assistance in case of lost luggage
  • assistance in case of lost or missing travel documents
  • arranging emergency cash assistance
  • recovering lost tickets
  • reservation of seats for urgent travel
  • legal assistance
  • advancing bail money
  • medical or dental assistance abroad
  • reimbursing costs of medical treatment and surgery
  • continuous monitoring of the patient’s state of health
  • organizing transport of patients (abroad) by  ambulance or by air
  • patient repatriation
  • repatriation of remains
  • prosthetic device, wheel chair, crutches etc., if recommended by the doctor
  • paying for medicine based on the doctor’s prescription made out for the insured
  • supply and delivery of medicine in case of emergency
  • replacement of damaged glasses upon the doctor’s prescription
  • organizing search and rescue expeditions
  • reimbursement of extra costs of repatriation due to any urgent problem arising at home
  • reimbursement of extra costs of repatriation due to the death of a fellow passenger