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Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Best Travel Insurance for 2026: What Actually Matters A friend of mine broke her ankle on a hiking trail outside Chiang Mai two years ago. Nothing dramatic — a wrong step on wet stone — but it meant a clinic visit, an X-ray, a walking boot and a rebooked flight home. Total bill: just under $1,800. She had a $9-a-week backpacker policy she’d bought in about four minutes at the airport, and it covered every cent inside a week. The trip she’d been on before that, she’d skipped insurance entirely to save the money. Same risk, opposite outcome, and only one of those trips could have gone very badly wrong. ...