Essential Travel

Launched in 2002, Essential Travel has protected over 5 million holidaymakers with its fully comprehensive UK travel insurance as well as providing priority access to the most sought after car parks, hotels and lounges at all major airports across the UK and beyond.

MAKING TRAVEL SAFER, CHEAPER AND EASIER

As one of the UK's leading independent online travel essentials providers, Essential Travel can offer all the little extras that make your holiday safer, cheaper and easier. The site itself is extremely straightforward and easy to use. By clicking on Travel Insurance, Airport Parking, Airport Hotels or Car Hire to ‘get a quote', visitors will be taken to a dedicated area of the site, where they can expand their search terms to narrow down type of hotel or insurance that they are after. More options are listed down the right hand side of the page to help guide your search and detailed information about what's included in the booking and where car parks or airport lounges are located once you get there.

ADDED VALUE

In addition to this extremely useful service, Essential Travel adds value to its site by including an excellent online Travel Magazine. This offers lots of attractive imagery and articles such as How to Travel Without Flying, Europe's Best Beaches and Camping Holidays broken down into umbrella sections covering Travel Tips, 24 Hour Guides, Travel Ideas. Alongside this a Travel News area of the site, which covers the top stories hitting the industry. Meanwhile, an informative blog with points of travel interest is another must visit area. Visitors with any additional queries should visit the Travel Questions part of the site where questions relating to Backpackers and Travel Insurance, Holiday Cover and Redundancy, the Cheapest way to Change Money Abroad and many more are covered in detail.

AWARD WINNING

Winner of the 2010 TravelMole Award and 2009 Best Travel Insurance Website in the Travolution Awards, Essential Travel is essential viewing before any holiday.