Red Pennant overseas emergency assistance

Red Pennant Overseas emergency assistance

European breakdown cover and holiday insurance

Before you leave for your holiday, don’t forget to take out appropriate breakdown cover and travel insurance. We offer the following products, tailored to touring holidays and can help give you peace of mind for driving or flying holidays.

Tailored with our members in mind, our MAYDAY European Breakdown Cover and Red Pennant Travel Insurance provide a range of features specifically for touring, to keep you protected while you're travelling across Europe, with travel insurance options to protect worldwide or UK holidays too.

If you're not a member, join today from just £69.

MAYDAY European Breakdown Cover

For over 45 years, we've partnered with Green Flag to bring our members specialist UK breakdown cover and we’re now excited to partner with them to provide European breakdown cover as well.

Red Pennant Travel Insurance

Coming soon

We will shortly be launching a new travel insurance product covering UK and European holidays with the option of Worldwide cover too. Check back soon for more information!

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Red Pennant Overseas emergency assistance

This product is no longer available. If you are an existing policy holder, please see below for more information.

  • Why have you had to stop selling Red Pennant?

    Factors outside of our control have meant we had to stop selling Red Pennant Overseas Emergency Assistance. The underwriter of this product was no longer able to support the product.

  • Can I still buy Red Pennant?

    No, Red Pennant Overseas Emergency Assistance is no longer available to purchase. All existing policies, including those purchased up to and including 30 January 2026, will continue to be honoured and supported by our Emergency Assistance Team.

  • What European breakdown and travel insurance options are available to me now?

    MAYDAY European Breakdown Cover

    We now offer an alternative European breakdown product called MAYDAY European Breakdown, provided by Green Flag. We have partnered with Green Flag for over 45 years to bring our members specialist UK breakdown cover and we’re now excited to partner with them to provide European breakdown cover as well.

    Red Pennant Travel Insurance

    We have an exciting new Red Pennant Travel Insurance product in the making which will be available in the coming weeks. This will be offered by our new specialist travel insurance partner, PJ Hayman and will provide cover for UK and European trips, with automatic cover for a wide range of pre-existing medical conditions included.

  • Will the Club's Emergency Assistance Team still manage assistances on the new breakdown and travel insurance products?

    No. Our Emergency Assistance Team will continue to handle assistance requests on all existing policies sold prior to 31 January 2026. When you purchase MAYDAY European Breakdown Cover and/or Red Pennant Travel Insurance, you will have access to each insurer's Assistance teams who are multi-lingual, based in the UK and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

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Red Pennant is underwritten by Tedaisy Underwriting Limited as Underwriting Agents for Astrenska Insurance Limited. Astrenska Insurance Limited is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority; Registered in England & Wales; Registered Number 01708613; Registered Office: Cutlers Exchange, 123 Houndsditch, London, EC3A 7BU. FCA registration number 202846.

The Caravan Club Ltd, East Grinstead House, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 1UA, which trades as Caravan and Motorhome Club is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority for general insurance and credit activities.

For full details of the policy cover, including limitations and exclusions that apply, please refer to the policy documents.

If you or anyone travelling with you has a medical condition that we are not able to cover, a medical firm directory has been set up and you may be able to find the cover you need through that. You can access the directory by going to: https://traveldirectory.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en