Specialist insurance cover for thrill seekers

Adventure travel insurance from Columbus Direct is tailored for those who don't want to just laze on a beach during their holiday. If you fancy doing something more adventurous then make sure that you've got the right travel insurance protection - our policies have a wide range of activities covered as standard, with many more available as options.
From from £5.40


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Adults (18 - 49)
Adults (50 - 64)
Adults (65 - 69)
Adults (70 - 79)
Adults (80 - 99)
Infants (0 - 1)
Children (2 - 12)
Children (13 - 17)
Children (18 - 22)
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Activities Pack
Water Action Pack
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* no Personal Liability cover
** no Personal Liability / offshore rescue cover
*** no Personal Liability and no Personal Accident cover
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Summary of our adventure travel insurance
 


At Columbus Direct our travel insurance doesn't just cover you for cancellation and lost baggage - we cover a wide variety of sports and activities as standard in our policies, including scuba diving to 30m, surfing, sailing, water skiing and horse riding. As well as the great standard adventure activities we can offer a huge range of optional covers that can cover you for bungee jumping, elephant trekking, heli-skiing, parachuting, rock climbing, safari's, scuba diving to 50m, and many more. We've a huge range of activities available, so if you're travelling and want insurance for some of your more adventurous activities then you're in the right place.

  • Scuba to 50m available
  • Many activities available as options
  • No upper age limit
  • Wide range of policies available

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Details on the full range of sports and activities we can cover
 

You can include cover for hazardous sports and activities to any policy offered by Columbus Direct, including annual travel insurance policies. We cover more than 80 sports / activities as standard and you can arrange for another 60 sports and (hazardous) activities at an additional cost:


Sports and activities covered as standard:
angling, archery*, athletics*(not including marathon running), badminton, banana boating, baseball*, basketball, billiards, body boarding, bowling, boxing training (no contact), camel riding*, canoeing, catamaran sailing**, clay pigeon shooting, climbing (climbing wall), cricket*, croquet, curling, cycling (non-touring)*, dancing, darts, dinghy racing, dinghy sailing, elephant ride, fell walking, flag american football, football, golf, gymnastics, helicopter ride (passenger), hiking, horse/reindeer drawn sleigh, horse riding, horse/mule trekking, hot air ballooning (passenger), ice cricket*, jet skiing*, kite surfing (on a lake)*, light aircraft rides (passenger), martial arts training, motorcycling under 125cc* (as a means of transport only), netball, orienteering, paint balling*, pony trekking, pool, rambling, rifle range*, ringos, rounders, rugby league*, rugby union*, sailing** (in-shore & off-shore), scuba diving (max. 30m), sledging, snooker, snorkelling, snow-shoeing, soccer, softball, squash*, surfing*, swimming, swimming with dolphins, table tennis, tennis, ten-pin bowling*, tobogganing (winter), touch football, trampolining, trekking, tubing, tug-o-war, volleyball, wake boarding, walking, walking up Sydney Harbour Bridge, water polo, waterskiing, wheelchair basketball, windsurfing (on a lake)*.

* no Personal Liability cover
** no Personal Liability / offshore rescue cover

Optional cover: Activities pack
Bungee jumping (2 jumps), elephant trekking, kayaking, parascending - behind boats, sea canoeing / sea kayaking, walking high altitude, white water rafting, windsurfing* - sea, zorbing (2 zorbs).

* no Personal Liability cover
** no Personal Liability / offshore rescue cover

Optional cover: Water Action Pack
Kayaking, kite surfing* - sea / lake, motor boating*, parascending - behind boats, rowing, sea canoeing / sea kayaking surfing*, white water rafting , windsurfing* - sea .

* no Personal Liability cover
** no Personal Liability / offshore rescue cover

Sports and activities that can be covered individually at an extra premium:
Abseiling (Organiser's Guidelines / Supervision), American Football, BMX Riding (Stunt/Obstacle*), Bungee Jumping, Camel Trekking, Cat Skiing, Climbing (up to 4000m), Cycling (Touring*), Deep Sea Fishing, Dry Slope Skiing, Elephant Trekking, Fan Boating, Fencing*, Go Karting, Gorge Walking, Heliskiing***, Heptathlon Hockey*, Hydro-speeding, Ice Skating, Jungle Trekking*, Kayaking, Kite Surfing*, Korfball, Lacrosse, Land Yachting, Motor Boating*, Mountain Biking (recreational), Mountaineering (up to 4000m), Overland Expedition*, Parachuting, Paragliding*, Paragliding (Tandem *), Paragliding / Parapenting*, Parasailing, Parascending (Behind Boats), Quad Biking*, Reverse Bungee, River Sledding, River Tubing, Rock Climbing (with tools), Rock Climbing (without tools), Roller Blading, Roller Skating, Rowing, Safari (In Vehicle *), Safari (On Foot), Sand Duning, Sand Surfing, Scuba Diving - Max. 50m (qualified to 50m), Sea Canoeing, Sea Kayaking, Skate Boarding, Small Bore Target Shooting*, Via Ferrata, Walking High Altitude, White Water Rafting, Windsurfing*, Zip Line / Wire, Zorbing * no Personal Liability cover ** no Personal Liability / offshore rescue cover

If you want to know how much our travel insurance costs, get a quote here and include any sports and activities you like under "Optional extras".