Southdownsinsurance Reviews 

5,602
TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

4.4

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Looking at 260 reviews, reviewers overwhelmingly had a great experience with this company. Customers frequently mention that the staff are exceptionally friendly, professional, and helpful when updating travel policies or asking questions over the phone. People also appreciate the highly competitive prices, seamless renewals, and the clear, easy-to-use platform for getting instant quotes without any hassle. Some reviewers were not happy with the claims process, noting that payouts took a long time and required submitting the same documents multiple times. Consumers also pointed out frustrating communication issues, unresponsive staff, and unexpected difficulties getting certain medical or travel incidents covered under their policies.

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Price

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Customer service

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Service

Users describe positive interactions with service, highlighting that representatives are friendly, helpful,... See more

Staff

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Claim

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Third time I’ve taken out their cover and luckily didn’t have to use it! They consistently come out near the top for value and cover. Great price for someone who has pre-existing medical conditions to... See more

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Friendly,helpful service and very reasonable price. Never claimed so couldn't give top rating as not experienced what claims would be like but overall happy with company.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I called to update medical history- and spoke with Nikki (?spelling) She was incredibly helpful, professional, kind and understanding. Gave me lots of options. Have been with Southdownsinsurance fo... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

It is now three years that I have been insured with them. I only ever had to put one claim through and have to say it was not handled well to start with. However, customer service and management inter... See more


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Southdowns Insurance services Ltd is a General Insurance Intermediary located in West Sussex. We are licensed and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Our authorisation allows us to arrange and assist in the administration of non-investment insurance contracts. You can check our entry on the FCA website at www.fca.org.uk. We currently provide sales and service support for an International General Insurance Intermediary but also offer our own products underwritten by within the AXA group. Our sales and service agents are experienced, knowledgeable and efficient, dedicating equal time and attention to service and query calls as they do to quotations and sales opportunities. We aim to provide a service that we can be proud of and one that we would wish to receive if calling or e-mailing into the office ourselves.


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Acting immorally

We are extremely disappointed in the service we have received - we were notified that our existing European annual policy would be auto-renewing, but as we were due to travel outside of Europe this year, we took out a new annual global policy, to replace our existing European policy.
They gave us the new annual global policy, however, 2 weeks later proceeded to renew the European policy without notifying us, whilst we were on our holiday (outside of Europe). As a result, we missed our 14 day cooling off period, which we are only now just aware off, after coming back from our holiday.
So in conclusion, the company knowingly sold us a new policy, whilst continuing to renew our existing policy, with the knowledge that we would never be able to claim against both policy's in the event of a claim.
This specific act and the level of service we've received following it, feels dishonest and immoral, that the insurance company have knowingly took money from us for something we will never be able to receive a service for and now aren't in a position to cancel the auto-renewed policy and offer us a refund. After speaking to their customer service team, both me and my partner have felt very unsatisfied and unhappy with the experience and feel discouraged to ever use them again.

21 April 2026
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Reply from Southdownsinsurance

Dear Customer,

We appreciate the time you have taken to provide your feedback.

To enable us to investigate this situation further, please contact us at info@southdownsinsurance.co.uk marking your email FAO the Duty Manager in the subject field, together with your policy numbers and copy your feedback into the body of the email.

Kind regards
Southdowns
Sales and service

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Clear and Efficient

The customer centre representative explained everything very clearly in an efficient and friendly manner and found the best travel insurance option to suit our needs and pocket.

15 April 2026
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I had a policy auto renew

I had a policy auto renew, did not include world wide so I rang the company, they answered and was extremely helpful, cancelled one policy, went through new policy .. booked it was so easy

13 April 2026
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

No response on claim…

My baggage was delayed by more than 40 hours on my recent travel to USA and raised a claim with them. Its been a week now and no acknowledgement or update with no sight on when / if there will be any !! Whats the point of having an insurance if when I cant use it when I needed the most.

1 April 2026
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Reply from Southdownsinsurance

Dear Customer,

We are very sorry to learn of your experience and appreciate the time you have taken to provide your feedback.

Your feedback is very valuable to both Southdowns and AXA Partners and will be used to help improve our service and product to ensure we can continue to meet the high standard we strive to deliver.

If you have not registered a complaint and would like to discuss your concerns in further detail, please do use the below contact methods in order to speak with the relevant Complaints Team.
Email: claimcomplaints@axa-travel-insurance.com

Phone: 01737 815227

Once again, we thank you for sharing your feedback.

Kind Regards Southdowns/AXA Partners

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent service

Excellent service. Joe wad very professional, extremely knowledgeable and helpful. Process was easy and straightforward. Competitive prices. Definitely recommend and will use again.

2 April 2026
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This company treats people very cruelly. Stay away.

Edit as of 04/04/2026. My hospital are now persuing legal action against me. I have reached rock bottom and no-one is replying to my attempts at contact.
Please stay away from this company. They have damaged my mental wellbeing and left me in a lot of debt that they had assured me they would be covering.
Dreadful.

I am here again to write a review. I am still awaiting settlement of my insurance claim. 
I have been told for the 3rd time that my details were under the wrong record and at this stage I really don't understand what's going on. 
The thing im most concerned about is the effect this has had on me mentally. And the complete disregard from the company regarding this. 
I was assured my case was escalated - there has since been zero progress.
I had a phone call with someone called George who was so lovely and promised multiple times he was going to call me back - he never did. 
I submitted a 2nd complaint. This is still in progress but as its for the same issue as before I am not hopeful. 
I have finally escalated to the Ombudsman and this is not what I wanted to do. 
The stress of all of this is very overwhelming. The hospital will take action against me as my bill is unpaid. I have communicated this so many times to the company and they just do not respond. Or tell me it has been escalated. 
The outstanding settlement is over 18 000 dollars and so is not money I have in my pocket. The company is a joke. Please avoid at all costs. 

26 March 2026
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Reply from Southdownsinsurance

Dear Customer,

We are very sorry to hear that you remain dissatisfied and thank you for taking the time to provide further feedback, your feedback has been escalated to AXA for action.

Kind regards,
Southdowns
Sales and Service

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