Travel overseas and car insurance

[momof5boys]

I'm hoping someone here can help me. We plan on visiting the Netherlands and will have use of a nephew's vehicle. Does anyone know if we would have to purchase additional insurance to cover ourselves or is this included with his car insurance. We've heard of people swapping homes/cars for vacations and I wonder how auto insurance is affected....

[bdwilliams]

Your car insurance won't cover you outside of North America. I would suggest that your nephew looks into his auto insurance coverage.

[Ciel]

You will also need that international driving permit. Details on the CAA site:
http://www.caa.ca/travel-documents/idp/

It would be worthwhile to ask your insurance broker about riders for international driving. It is likely there is a service available if you are willing to pay the fee for it, like travel insurance.

[guessboi]

There is no coverage avaliable outside of Canada / US.

[momof5boys]

Thanks all for your replies. In the meantime we have returned from our trip to the Netherlands. We were able to borrow a nephew's car and he made sure it had the proper insurance.

[saboor]

I was too. I've been following the steps in the book "Your Money or Your Life", and translating purchases into what it costs in life energy and asking the question if I received fulfillment in exchange for that life energy has curbed my spending quite a bit.

[FLA]

Thanks for sharing.

[dededi]

Your car insurance won't cover you outside of North America. I would suggest that your nephew looks into his auto insurance coverage.

That would be the best thing to do.