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We'll be going to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in April/May 2025. I know those countries are generally pretty safe, especially in tourist areas. But I've traveled to a developing country about 25 years ago and at the time my company sent us to a travel physician. She recommended several vaccines including a polio booster, typhoid, and a couple of others. But that has been so long ago I wondered if we will need boosters for anything, or some vaccines that were not available back then that might take months to complete a course (Hep B for example). I found a travel medicine provider in Oahu that will do a consult for us for a decent price and we are in the process of exchanging information about vaccine history, etc. It looks like were are going to need a few jabs.
But that got me doing some research this weekend. One that we do NOT need for SE Asia but may need in the future is yellow fever. It's recommended is a lot of areas we might travel to like a few countries in Africa that are otherwise safe and I've been hoping to do a safari to, most of coastal Brazil (Rio), much of Peru (Machu Pichu), etc.
But the rub is that they don't like to give it to people over 60. I will turn 60 next year. So it might be now or never and the choice might lead to scratching off several bucket list trips. I'm going to talk to my consultant about this but has anyone gotten a yellow fever vaccine? Or been denied because they are too old?
That also got me looking into travel medical insurance. It turns out that what I have (Blue Cross) and what my partner has (Kaiser) cover us for urgent and emergency care world wide when traveling. So we are covered for major issues. But I was looking into Geo Blue which I think some folks here have talked about. I was surprised at how cheap it is. I was quoted $250 per year for $200 deductible and $500,000 cap. That seems to be for 2 people but even if it is only for 1 it seems really cheap. That is for the first 70 days of each trip with an unlimited number of trips per year. It also includes emergency evacuation insurance but we already pay for that with Global Rescue.
Does anyone have Geo Blue? Can you comment on it? Is it easy to use? Does the quote I got sound like maybe I'm missing something like perhaps that is a monthly rate?
But that got me doing some research this weekend. One that we do NOT need for SE Asia but may need in the future is yellow fever. It's recommended is a lot of areas we might travel to like a few countries in Africa that are otherwise safe and I've been hoping to do a safari to, most of coastal Brazil (Rio), much of Peru (Machu Pichu), etc.
But the rub is that they don't like to give it to people over 60. I will turn 60 next year. So it might be now or never and the choice might lead to scratching off several bucket list trips. I'm going to talk to my consultant about this but has anyone gotten a yellow fever vaccine? Or been denied because they are too old?
That also got me looking into travel medical insurance. It turns out that what I have (Blue Cross) and what my partner has (Kaiser) cover us for urgent and emergency care world wide when traveling. So we are covered for major issues. But I was looking into Geo Blue which I think some folks here have talked about. I was surprised at how cheap it is. I was quoted $250 per year for $200 deductible and $500,000 cap. That seems to be for 2 people but even if it is only for 1 it seems really cheap. That is for the first 70 days of each trip with an unlimited number of trips per year. It also includes emergency evacuation insurance but we already pay for that with Global Rescue.
Does anyone have Geo Blue? Can you comment on it? Is it easy to use? Does the quote I got sound like maybe I'm missing something like perhaps that is a monthly rate?