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£158 for a 1 years European breakdown and recovery???

and that's on top of what I'm already paying for home start.

the dirty robbing bastards...............or are they?

I havn't been with the RAC, but I left the AA a few years ago because they started hiking up prices.  Not only did they hike up the price, they started to put restrictions on usage as well.

We now get our breakdown cover through our car insurers ( Direct Line ).  We Pay around £90 per annum for joint memebrship ( Husband and Wife ).  For this we get everything we got in the AA.  I am not sure about European cover though.

We have had to use the service a couple of times and it has been very fast.  It actually works out better than the AA or RAC ( in the UK anyway ), because when you report that you have broken down, they call the nearest service to you to sort your problem out.  It could be the local garage if they have an arrangement with them.  The last time I broke down was on the way back from Bristol and they had a pickup truck ( non-fixable fault ) to me in 10 mins.  They towed me 2.5 hours to home.

Insure and Go do European break down cover. It is Europ Assist which is one of the big boys in the market and my cover for 2 weeks over christmas was just under £30. You can buy an annual policy but I dont know the price for that. They have all the prices on their website. You can also buy on the web and download your policy documents instantly.

Carol

Most of the responses here seem to be from tent campers, and if you only have to worry about recoveryof a car, it is probably fine to go for the cheapest option you can find. However, once a caravan comes into the equation, things begin to look very different. Most of the standard service providers either do not recover caravans, or place strict restictions on the length etc that they will deal with. It is for this reason that we pay the, admittedly, high price for RAC Arrival recovery through the C&CC. There is no real substitute for a specialist policy, usually through one of the clubs, as many people have found too late, to their cost.

  Cant understand this ...RAC just quoted me £95 to extend my UK cover when I explained my caravan was in France and I just wanted car cover......is this for caravan recovery as well ?

   Second question "Is your 158 quid the annual cost for BOTH UK and European cover "  with the RAC ,,,,,,  Mayday quoted me  £75 for a years  euro cover  .