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Why choose Staysure

Specialist travel insurance trusted across Europe

Trusted by over 12 million travellers from across Europe and beyond for more than 20 years – with cover for pre-existing medical conditions.

Experts in travel insurance:

Holidays are a time to relax. At Staysure, we're experts in travel insurance – in fact that's all we do. We've been providing travel insurance in the UK since 2004 – that’s over 20 years. We're not just experts in covering holidays, we're specialists in cover for pre-existing medical conditions.  

 

Not many insurers are and their cover might not help you if your pre-existing medical condition means you need to make a claim. In 2025 we launched in Ireland to bring the same specialism to the Irish market.  So, if you want to go on holiday, forget your cares and know help is just a call away if you need it, be sure with Staysure. 

 

Trusted by Millions

When you buy travel insurance, you want to be sure the company you choose will be there when you need them – with years of experience behind them. 

 

We’ve helped over 12 million people across the UK and Europe protect their travel plans. It’s what we do. 

 

  • We’ve helped over 12 million people across the UK and Europe protect their travel plans. It’s what we do. 
  • In 2024, Staysure Group paid over €117 million in claims – we’re helping our customers when they need us most. 
  • Our largest payout in 2024 was over €797,000* – we’re here to help with both small and big claims. 
Excellent 4.7 | 9,229 reviews

We get double the love of other insurers

Twice as many people give us 5-star reviews in the UK on Trustpilot than any other travel insurance provider. That’s over 340,000 5-star reviews. And counting.

Very helpful staff

Very helpful staff, Barbara on the expat helpline in Spain was a superstar

Jason,
Very straightforward process.

Very straightforward process through website to renew our travel insurance requirement.

Mr Paul Butler,
great price and immediate response i…

great price and immediate response i was very impressed.

customer,
Ryan Howsam

Founder and chairman

Our history

Ryan Howsam formed Staysure in 2004, passionate to ensure that over-50s in the UK could access travel insurance that covered their pre-existing medical conditions. 

In 2019 Ryan explained his motivation to the press: 

“We’re all living longer and travelling more, and it felt like the travel insurance products on offer weren’t tailored to the growing demographic of over-50s with pre-existing medical conditions. Staysure was my first foray into the world of insurance and it’s become something I’m passionate about.”

(Insurance Travel and Health Insurance Journal, February 2019) 

As a privately owned company, we make decisions from the needs of our customers, not for shareholders. 

Today our headquarters are in Northampton, and we employ over 700 people across Europe as part of the Staysure Group. 

About Staysure Group

The Staysure Group includes a number of brands in the UK and Europe that offer travel insurance. All share one unifying aim: to provide the right level of cover that means you can relax on holiday, live your life, and know help is a phone call away if you should need it.  

 

Our brands include: 

 

  • Staysure – UK and Ireland 
  • Staysure Expat – for English-speaking expats in France, Portugal and Spain 
  • Avanti 
  • PayingTooMuch – a price comparison website focused on travel insurance 
  • Price comparison brands – including Big Blue and Travel Insurance Medical
  • Co-branded cover – with leading UK supermarkets, travel companies and financial services providers 

We do things by the book

Doing things the right way is important. You know that. After all, if you’ve read down to here? You’re a pretty thorough person. 

 

You may want to know about the rules and regulations to make sure we really know our stuff. 

  

Several governing bodies ensure we operate to the highest standards. From protecting your personal information to making sure our website, adverts and communications are accurate and not misleading, they hold us accountable. 


These include key UK regulators such as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) and the Financial Services Commission (FSC). 

 

In Europe, we are registered as an exclusive agent with the Spanish Insurance General Directorate (Dirección General de Seguros y Fondos de Pensiones (DGSFP) and regulated by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD).

If you think we’re not doing something as well as we could, or have a complaint, then we welcome your feedback

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Staysure Ireland travel insurance, as well as any other denomination, trading name, brand, or domain under which the products and services are marketed, is a trading name of Avanti Group Solutions, administered by Howserv Europe, S.L., Agencia de Seguros Exclusiva, an Exclusive Agent of ERGO Seguros De Viaje Europaische Reiseversicherung AG, also known as ERGO Seguros de Viaje, Sucursal en España (Registered office: Av. Isla Graciosa, 1, 28703 San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid), España). Howserv Europe, S.L., with Spanish tax ID number (NIF) B88327333, is registered with the Spanish Insurances General Directorate (Dirección General de Seguros y Fondos de Pensiones) under number E0217B88327333.

ERGO Seguros De Viaje Europaische Reiseversicherung AG in Non-Life Insurance Freedom of Services in Ireland, Reference Nº C560062, with registered office at Avda. Isla Graciosa, 1 28703 San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid) is the permanent establishment in Spain of the German entity ERGO Reiseversicherung AG.

The controlling Member State is Germany, and the controlling and supervisory authorities are the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin), Graurhelndorfer Str. 108, 53117 Bonn (Germany).

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