North and Central America and Caribbean

Insurance

We recommend that you obtain comprehensive travel and medical insurance before travelling.  It is particularly important that this includes air ambulance charges and medical costs in a third country as serious medical cases are often referred overseas.  You should check any exclusions, and that your policy covers you for all the activities you want to undertake. For more general information see Travel insurance.

Keep a copy of the photopage of your passport and relevant entry stamp in case your documents are lost or stolen.

If things do go wrong when you are overseas then this is How we can help.

Consular Registration

Register with our LOCATE service to tell us when and where you are travelling abroad or where you live abroad so our consular and crisis staff can provide better assistance to you in an emergency.  More information about registering with LOCATE

Package Holidays

If you are on a package holiday, you must travel on the specified return date.  If you fail to do so it is likely that you will have to pay the cost of a return ticket yourself.

Passports

In the event of loss of your passport, you will need to apply to the Passport Office at the British High Commission, Barbados for a replacement.  There is no British High Commission in Grenada. Urgent applications can be speeded up if you pay courier costs, but even so, the issue of a replacement passport could still take up to ten working days.