From: nickodell49@yahoo.ca 
  
 On Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:10:13 +0100, Roland Perry  
 wrote: 
  
 >In message , at 08:45:38 on 
 >Sat, 9 Aug 2025, Nick Odell  remarked: 
 >>According to the Telegraph yesterday, and also other sources earlier 
 >>this month, the European Travel Information and Authorisation System 
 >>(ETIAS) will finally be getting under way from October this year. 
 > 
 >The first, or some date later in the month? 
 > 
 The 12th IIRC 
  
  
 >>Again, according to the Telegraph, non-EU passport holders may be 
 >>asked several questions, including whether they have proof of where 
 >>they are staying 
 > 
 >I make trips to the EU from time to time, and my hosts often pay for a 
 >hotel, but don't tend to tell me where it is. They pick me up from the 
 >airport and drive me there. The most recent one was rather nice, about 
 >€400 a night from what I could tell (they may have got some kind of 
 >corporate discount). 
  
 I'm a walk-up-and-ask-for-a-room kindova guy but when visiting 
 somewhere that insists on an address, which in my experience has been 
 the three As - Australia, Argentina and America I have been known to 
 print off the details of a hotel that I have no intention of staying 
 at. 
  
 > 
 >>and enough money to cover their trip, a return ticket 
 >>and medical insurance. 
 > 
 >My latest forced-upon "free" travel insurance, bundled with a banking 
 >product, is better than many I've had in the past. As always, the main 
 >unknown is pre-existing conditions. So if I'm run over by a bus, to what 
 >extent would undeclared diabetes (I don't have it, that's just an 
 >example) cause an issue? 
  
 I won't ask how old you are Roland, but my bank refused to bundle any 
 sort of free travel insurance with the account once I became 
 sixty-five. 
  
 Actually I think at the time that I told this group that I had 
 renounced the free cover and asked for a document to prove that I had 
 renounced it. My reasoning was that the actual cover offered by the 
 bank wasn't adequate for the places and lengths of visits that I was 
 making at the time and I needed to buy proper paid-for travel 
 insurance anyway. I presumed that laid up sick or broken in a foreign 
 hospital was the worst time for me to be in the middle of a war 
 between insurers both trying to wriggle out of accepting the claim so 
 I wanted cover from only one. 
  
 I was probably overthinking the situation back then - especially since 
 I have never, ever made a travel insurance claim[1] 
  
  
 > 
 >>Medical Insurance. Will the UK provided EHICS card - replaced since 
 >>BREXIT by the GHICS card - count as medical insurance under the terms 
 >>of this new process or are these UK Government issued proofs of 
 >>eligibility for reciprocal health care effectively dead in the water? 
 >> 
 >>The article is here: 
 >>>tons-going-to-europe/> 
 >> 
 >>Archive version: https://archive.ph/ZSRPz 
 >> 
 Nick 
 [1]Famous last words? I hope not.. 
  
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