Travel Insurance is a requirement for participation on the March of the Living. Insurance must include cancellation, interruption, and medical coverage. While we strongly encourage you to add Cancel For Any Reason, this is not a requirement. Should you choose to opt into Cancel for Any Reason, you must purchase insurance within 21 days of the first trip payment made into the program. Insurance should cover participants for the exact dates of the program.
When selecting a travel insurance policy, please keep in mind that all travelers are required to have medical coverage and that we recommend a minimum coverage of $150,000 USD for travel medical/accident & sickness, and $500,000 USD for emergency medical evacuation and repatriation. It can help for those benefits to be Primary coverage. We strongly recommend that the policy also includes benefits for trip cancellation, trip interruption, trip delay, and some coverage for baggage & personal effects.
The sooner you purchase a trip protection style plan, the more it can cover! We recommend purchasing a trip protection style plan within two weeks of making your initial trip payment of any kind for this trip. Please ensure that all the activities you plan on participating in are covered by your travel insurance.
For our trips and included activities, we recommend working with Wanderwell to purchase your policy. Click here to access the FAQ page specific to March of the Living trips create quotes and purchase a travel insurance plan online, and to get answers to the majority of coverage questions.
Wanderwell makes it simple with one curated, comprehensive trip protection plan designed to cover the most common travel perils related to trip cancellation, trip interruption, trip delay, and travel medical, that goes above and beyond many of the basic plans on the market. They also have a dedicated support team that will advocate for you throughout a claims process. Their trip protection plan also…
- has a Trip Delay benefit exception that will extend to an adult chaperone to remain behind with any quarantining participants who are student participants.
- acts as primary coverage so you won't need to worry about coordination with your domestic insurers.
- has an optional Cancellation for Any Reason (CFAR) upgrade if you meet the eligibility requirements and live in an eligible state.
Once you have purchased insurance, you will need to upload a copy of the documents under your Documents tab in the home page of your portal.
