Whether you’re sightseeing with your Siamese cat or enjoying a beach break with your Beagle, our holiday cover will help make travelling with your pet easier.

We’ll provide:

• Cover for overseas vet fees
• Help with quarantine costs due to illness or misplaced travel documents
• Cover for additional accommodation bills if your pet is lost or too ill to return as scheduled
• Help with replacement travel documents for your pet, if they’re lost or stolen

We’ll cover costs in any country included in the Pet Travel Scheme (PETS)* – up to the limits set out below and in your certificate of insurance.

Please note that we won't cover the cost of any pre-existing conditions and that terms, conditions, excesses, exclusions and limitations apply. You can find out more about the terms of our cover in our policy documents or your personalised Certificate of Insurance.

We’ve included a wide range of benefits in our holiday cover for pets.

Our insurance covers your pets for 90 days abroad each year. They’re insured anywhere, so long as they’re in a country named in the PETS (England) Order 1999*, and you comply with all its rules including those on passports, microchipping and vaccinations.

In order to keep our insurance fair and as affordable as possible, our pet holiday cover won’t cover costs for:

• Claims while in countries not covered by PETS* or that occur because you have not complied with the scheme’s requirements
• Treatment without an official receipt that shows the vet’s address and phone number
• Illnesses, injuries and/or symptoms you knew about before travelling
• Faulty microchips you knew about before going on holiday
• Treatment abroad unless a vet has agreed your pet is too ill to travel home on the scheduled date
• Costs from trips made to get treatment abroad
• More than 14 days extra accommodation or more than £30 for each day’s board
• Any replacement pet travel documents if they were lost, stolen or destroyed before your trip
• Replacement pet travel documents if you don’t report their loss, theft or destruction to the vet that issued them within 24 hours

Your policy documents set out our holiday cover in full.

If you’re abroad and your pet starts to seem off or unwell, you can always speak to a vet nurse using Sainsbury’s Money 24/7 Vet Assistance.

They’re on hand, day and night, to help with any non-emergency queries about your pet’s health and wellbeing – wherever you are in the world.

If you’re in a country covered by the PETS, please give us a call on 0344 543 1032 to make a claim. Alternatively, log in to My Pet Portal.

We’re here Monday to Friday, 8am–6pm and Saturday, 9am–1pm. Calls are charged at local rates from landlines and mobiles and may be monitored and recorded.

You’ll need to provide:

• Evidence from the treating vet that your pet was too ill to travel home as scheduled when claiming for additional accommodation and repatriation costs
• Evidence your dog was microchipped before going abroad
• Receipts and bills for all the expenses claimed

The Pet Travel Scheme, also known as PETS*, is a scheme set up to make it easier and safer to travel abroad with pets.

Designed to stop the spread of rabies and other diseases, PETS allows you to take your pet in and out of specific countries without quarantine. This is as long as you meet certain criteria, for example, having the right documentation, identification and vaccinations.

With our cover for overseas vet treatment, you’ll be insured for a maximum of one year while in any of the countries included in the PETS, as long as you meet all the requirements.

Looking for some light holiday reading? Check out our handy guides for you and your pet.

If you want pet insurance that helps covers the cost of vet fees abroad, you’re in the right place. Double check our policy documents to make sure you’re happy with the terms of our cover – then get going with your quote.

Find the details you need on our help and support page.