SafetyWing Travel Insurance

Here you can find all further details about Safetywing that didn’t make it into my SafetyWing insurance review article.

First of all, use the widget below to calculate your rate:

What range of activities does SafetyWing insurance cover? The whole list (as of May 2022) is:

Angling
Archery
Badminton
Ballooning
Baseball
Biking – includes touring and organised tours
Bowling
Bungee jumping
Bushwalking up to 4,500 meters
Camel riding / trekking
Camping under 4,500 meters
Canoeing
Canyon swing
Canyoning
Capoeira dancing
Clay pigeon shooting
Cricket
Cycling under 4,500 meters
Deep sea fishing
Dirt boarding
Dog sledding (not racing or competing)
Fell running / walking
Fencing
Fishing
Flying as a passenger
Football (Soccer)
Glacier walking up to 4,500 meters
Golf
Gymnastics (only as exercise or for fun; not competitive or organized)
Hiking up to 4,500 meters
Horse riding
Hot air ballooning as a passenger
Hunting (excluding big game)
Ice skating (indoor or outdoor)
Ice climbing up to 4,500 meters
Jet boating
Jet skiing
Kayaking
Land surfing
Moped biking except as excluded below
Motor biking except as excluded below
Mountain biking up to 4,500 meters
Netball
Orienteering
Outdoor endurance except as excluded below
Paint balling
Rambling
Rap jumping
Rifle range shooting
Roller blading
Roller skating
Rowing / sculling
Safari tours
Sailing
Sandboarding
Sand Skiing
Scuba diving (sub Aqua Pursuits involving underwater breathing apparatus) as long as you are PADI/NAUI/SSI certified, or if you are not certified you are covered for up to 10 meters when accompanied by a certified instructor.
Sea canoeing
Sea kayaking
Skateboarding
Skiing (only covered for recreational skiing. No cover provided while skiing away from prepared and marked in-bound territories (off piste) and/or against the advice of the local ski school or local authoritative body)
Sleigh rides
Sledding
Snorkeling
Snow rafting
Snowboarding (only covered for recreational snowboarding skiing. No cover provided while skiing away from prepared and marked in-bound territories (off piste) and/or against the advice of the local ski school or local authoritative body)
Soccer (Football)
Speed boating
Squash
Stand up paddle surfing
Stilt walking
Surfing except as excluded below
Swimming
Table tennis
Ten pin bowling
Tennis
Trail bike riding
Trekking up to 4,500 meters
Tubing
Tubing on snow
Ultimate frisbee
Via ferrata up to 4,500 meters
Volleyball
Wake skating
Wakeboarding
Walking
Water skiing
Weightlifting, cardio and classes at the gym (note that training for or attending a powerlifting competition is excluded.)
Windsurfing
Yachting (coastal waters only)
Yachting (outside coastal waters)
Yoga (in class or alone)
Zip line
Zorbing

On the other hand, any injuries incurred while participating in the following activities are not covered:

All-Terrain Vehicles
American Football
Aussie Rules Football
Aviation (except when traveling solely as a passenger in a commercial aircraft)
Base Jumping
Big Game Hunting
Bobsleigh
Boxing
Cave Diving
Cliff Jumping
Heli-Skiing
Heli-gliding
Hot Air Ballooning as a Pilot
Ice Hockey
Kite-Surfing
Martial Arts
Luge
Motorized Dirt Bikes
Mountaineering at elevations of 4,500 meters or higher
Outdoor Endurance Events
Parachuting
Parasailing
Powerlifting (lifting at max weight with the intention of attending a competition)
Quad Biking
Racing by any Animal, Motorized Vehicle, or BMX, and Speed Trials and Speedway
Rugby
Running with the Bulls
Skeleton
Skiing off piste (outside prepared and marked in-bound territories) and/or against or against the advice of the local ski school or local authoritative body
Snowboarding off piste (outside prepared and marked in-bound territories)and/or against or against the advice of the local ski school or local authoritative body
Sky Surfing
Snow Mobile
Spelunking
Sub Aqua Pursuits involving underwater breathing apparatus (unless accompanied by a certified instructor at depths less than 10m, or PADI/NAUI/SSI certified)
Tractors
Whitewater Rafting
Wrestling

Go back to my SafetyWing Review post.