Allianz Partners USA offers Cancel Anytime upgrade

Travel and assistance company Allianz Partners USA is offering an optional Cancel Anytime upgrade to its most popular plans OneTrip Prime and OneTrip Premier, allowing customers to cancel their trip for almost any unforeseeable reason.

Many standard policies include trip cancellation benefits, which may reimburse up to 100 per cent of prepaid, non-refundable expenses if the trip is cancelled due to an unexpected and unforeseen covered reason.

Typical standard ‘covered reasons’ include:

• Serious illness or injury to the insured, a close family member, or travel companion
• Natural disasters that make the insured’s home or destination uninhabitable
• 24-hour delayed arrival at the traveller’s destination due to severe weather.

However, products with the Cancel Anytime upgrade expand cancellation coverage to include most unforeseeable circumstances, including a simple change of plan.

If a traveller cancels their trip for a reason not specifically covered under the base plan, Cancel Anytime can provide reimbursement when standard trip cancellation benefits don’t apply.

Allianz’s Cancel Anytime upgrade typically provides for reimbursement up to 80 per cent of lost non-refundable trip costs if a traveller cancels for almost any unforeseeable reason that their selected plan does not already cover, up to a maximum insured amount of $16,000.

Customers who cancel their trip for a covered reason may still receive 100 per cent of their lost non-refundable expenses, up to their maximum coverage limit. Customers can cancel as late as the day of departure, if they haven’t already left on their trip. 

Daniel Durazo, Director of External Communications at Allianz Partners USA, said: “Simply put, life happens, whether your pet sitter falls through at the last minute, stormy weather is predicted in your sunny destination, or you change your mind about travelling.

“Our Cancel Anytime upgrade provides an extra blanket of security for travellers who want to protect their financial investments as much as possible, from the moment they book their trip to the day of departure.”