Carre Neige

I am sure this has probably been covered before, but can anyone tell me a couple of things about this cover;

1. Does it cover you off piste? It is not clear on their website

2. Their website says you take this insurance out when you buy a lift pass. I have booked a holiday where the lift pass is already thrown in so can I add carre neige cover to this before I use it?


Many thanks

Yes it does cover you off piste.

this might be of help: http://www.natives.co.uk/holiday/the-lowdown-on-carte-neige-insurance/3994

You can probably add the insurance at the Ticket office BEFORE you use the lift pass. Once you have beeped through a gate the answer will be no.
If you find you can't, then use soemthing like assurski which you can buy online.

Limitations do not mention off-piste
They do mention:
- Accidents caused by participation in motorized sports (on land or in the air), hang-gliding, paragliding,
bobsledding, skeleton and ice hockey.
- Accidents occurring during professional sports competitions (the tests taken under the supervision of
the ski school - flocon, étoiles, chamois, flèche, etc – do not enter the framework of this exclusion and
are therefore covered).
- Mountaineering at altitudes over 3,000 metres.

So that's yur holiday ruined... no paragliding to your mountaineering layer followed by a bobseld run down for the professional ice-hokey match you have lined up. Or maybe not - no exclusions for dancing on tables!!

Tell whoever is supplying the pass to have the Carre Neige added to the pass & pay them at the resort or through your booking.

can't understand why you would want carre neige.Take out winter sports insurance at home it's cheaper.Mine's a tenner and cover's me for all injuries,airlifting off the mountain,nicked ski's,the full monty.A mate of mine,age 50 skiing since he was 14 took this out automatically when he got his lift pass even though he'd taken out ins in uk as he thought it covered something else and I suspect a lot of other people do the same. You don't need carre neige unless you did'nt get insured back home.

I might be wrong but I think that it saves you having to pay the people who take you off the mountain up front.
Am. I right?
(this in answer to Birdymiller) not TH.

You could be right Dids but you do pay more for c/neige and my ins gets me off the mountain,so do you pay more up front for c/neige so you don't have to pay up front to be taken off the slope or claim off your own ins back home!!!Remember it's all dead money unless you have an accident so I suppose the choice is yours.

Birdy a tenner for all that cover are you sure? don't think anyone on here has come up with cover as you describe for anywhere near that amount, if correct what's your excess?