Does Global Rescue ever issue coupons or discount codes?

[rookhawk]

Happy with their services, but wondering if there are any codes or coupons to reduce the annual cost?

My membership expires shortly and need to renew for another year.

 

[CAustin]

Interesting question ......never heard of them doing that but doesn't hurt to ask!

 

[rookhawk]

There is a place to put a coupon code at checkout so I'm going to assume that somebody has received a coupon in one form or another?

 

[CAustin]

Interesting because I'm thinking of signing up for my Zimbabwe trip!

 

[Albert GRANT]

Interesting because I'm thinking of signing up for my Zimbabwe trip!

Charlie, if you just want it for the Zim trip, you can get short term coverage less cost. I already signed up for my august trip. Seems the smart thing to do with the current state of the world in general. Not to mention if the worst happens with a buff or something. I also got the extraction add on in case there is a terrorist incident at the airport. Global will still get you out

 

[siml]

@CAustin , you don't need to worry about landmines, I think our buddy @Royal27 , was just having some good humor. But I do advise all my clients to take out evac insurance.

 

[rookhawk]

@AlbertGRANT I too wrestled with whether there would be a need for spec ops extraction in a time of crisis while going to Zimbabwe. (offered for an additional $300 per year with Global Rescue) The locals in Zim tell me it'll be no problems at all but I can't help but think there could be a real problem if Mugabe were to die or be killed by a rival while foreigners were in country. The most likely defense by the offending politician/crook in such a case would be that the Americans did it, the Brits did it, the whites did it, etc. I would suspect mob rule could be a legitimate possibility during a time of regime change.

Only reason I didn't opt for this contingency plan with global rescue is that when I'm in Zim I'm on the boarder for the hunts. If things go wrong in Zim I'd cross the border and put myself in the hands of RSA, Bots or Zambia as the case may be based on where I'm hunting. I certainly wouldn't head for Harare!

 

[Albert GRANT]

With all the airports being hit as well as cities in general over the last couple years I figure it's probably the best way to get out safely in a hurry. I only got it for the time I'm away so it was a fair amount t cheaper than the yearly membership

 

[wapiti]

If I have Travel Guard do I need Global Rescue too? I have a friend whose daughter was studying in Egypt during the last uprising. They had a rescue policy. The rescue people wouldn't get her out. It was a long several days until she made it out on her own. I don't know what company they used.

 

[mdwest]

My company provides MEDEX as a benefit to all of our international employees that work in developing countries, post conflict countries, etc.. We've had to call them on a couple of occasions to conduct medical evacuations in Africa (South Sudan and Somalia), and were prepared to use them for emergency evacuation in South Sudan a few years back when things got a little nasty in Juba for a while (we got things resolved another way and ended up not needing to call). They are reasonably affordable (I think we pay about $400 per person, per year), and have been extremely reliable and helpful whenever we have called.

Not sure if they would provide coverage for a "safari" or not.. but they claim to provide coverage for "the adventurous traveler"..

 

[BRICKBURN]

Global Rescue was getting people out from Everest basecamp after the earth quake.
They will arrange to come and get you.

When I saw this thread my first thought was that someone had received a special email with a letter offering a coupon from a Nigerian princess.

 

[rookhawk]

Here was a great article (as in informative and well researched) by a liberal author about global rescue.

The Tricky Ethics of the Lucrative Disaster Rescue Business
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/search-and-rescue-for-sale/

I'll give you the synopsis of the article if you're not into reading it entirely. Shame on you customers of global rescue who were rescued promptly from Nepal after the 8.0 magnitude earthquake. Shame on you that Global Rescue was so well entrenched locally that they knew who to call that had a helicopter. Shame on you that global rescue could persuade pilots between mandatory government controlled shifts of relief efforts to pick up global rescue clients in crisis. Shame on you global rescue clients for getting rescued when there was a person that didn't pay for global rescue that was dying at a triage unit of a hospital because he couldn't get a helicopter flight out and you did. It isn't fair that people that bought a special rescue service get rescued by global rescue and people who do not pay for such services don't get rescued.

If you can get over the shame, shame, shame, capitalism is evil and this product proves it because you get preferential treatment bit, here is the honest conclusion of the wired article: Global Rescue works if you pay for it and it may even work at the expense of others who did not pay and therefore did not get urgent services. It even worked in Nepal when the government took martial law control over all the civilian helicopters during the earthquake crisis because global rescue was so cunning they could get pilots to work between government mandated flights to get their customers to safety.

I personally can live with that moral conundrum because I'm paying for preferential treatment in the same way I pay for preferential treatment in my healthcare decisions. To others that would be anathema.

 

[K-man]

Here was a great article (as in informative and well researched) by a liberal author about global rescue.

The Tricky Ethics of the Lucrative Disaster Rescue Business
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/search-and-rescue-for-sale/

I'll give you the synopsis of the article if you're not into reading it entirely. Shame on you customers of global rescue who were rescued promptly from Nepal after the 8.0 magnitude earthquake. Shame on you that Global Rescue was so well entrenched locally that they knew who to call that had a helicopter. Shame on you that global rescue could persuade pilots between mandatory government controlled shifts of relief efforts to pick up global rescue clients in crisis. Shame on you global rescue clients for getting rescued when there was a person that didn't pay for global rescue that was dying at a triage unit of a hospital because he couldn't get a helicopter flight out and you did. It isn't fair that people that bought a special rescue service get rescued by global rescue and people who do not pay for such services don't get rescued.

If you can get over the shame, shame, shame, capitalism is evil and this product proves it because you get preferential treatment bit, here is the honest conclusion of the wired article: Global Rescue works if you pay for it and it may even work at the expense of others who did not pay and therefore did not get urgent services. It even worked in Nepal when the government took martial law control over all the civilian helicopters during the earthquake crisis because global rescue was so cunning they could get pilots to work between government mandated flights to get their customers to safety.

I personally can live with that moral conundrum because I'm paying for preferential treatment in the same way I pay for preferential treatment in my healthcare decisions. To others that would be anathema.

Yes, It's called insurance for a reason! I get better medical care here at home because I have insurance (example, second opinions, doctor of my choice, etc) It is too bad some didn't have first flight out, but that would be a government issue, not global rescue's fault.

 

[wesheltonj]

Here was a great article (as in informative and well researched) by a liberal author about global rescue.

The Tricky Ethics of the Lucrative Disaster Rescue Business
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/search-and-rescue-for-sale/

I'll give you the synopsis of the article if you're not into reading it entirely. Shame on you customers of global rescue who were rescued promptly from Nepal after the 8.0 magnitude earthquake. Shame on you that Global Rescue was so well entrenched locally that they knew who to call that had a helicopter. Shame on you that global rescue could persuade pilots between mandatory government controlled shifts of relief efforts to pick up global rescue clients in crisis. Shame on you global rescue clients for getting rescued when there was a person that didn't pay for global rescue that was dying at a triage unit of a hospital because he couldn't get a helicopter flight out and you did. It isn't fair that people that bought a special rescue service get rescued by global rescue and people who do not pay for such services don't get rescued.

If you can get over the shame, shame, shame, capitalism is evil and this product proves it because you get preferential treatment bit, here is the honest conclusion of the wired article: Global Rescue works if you pay for it and it may even work at the expense of others who did not pay and therefore did not get urgent services. It even worked in Nepal when the government took martial law control over all the civilian helicopters during the earthquake crisis because global rescue was so cunning they could get pilots to work between government mandated flights to get their customers to safety.

I personally can live with that moral conundrum because I'm paying for preferential treatment in the same way I pay for preferential treatment in my healthcare decisions. To others that would be anathema.

I read the article, just another take "Money Talks"

 

[Global Rescue]

Thanks for sharing your question here, @rookhawk. We do not have any active coupon codes at this time.

A comment on the article: Global Rescue has spent the last 12 years perfecting how to rescue and evacuate our members from difficult places. From the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict of 2006 to last year’s Nepalese earthquake, we’ve deployed to every major global event since our founding in 2004. While capitalism needs no defense, we believe our services directly contribute to the growth of tourism in countries like Nepal (where tourism represents more than 10% of the economy and is the fastest growing industry). While the majority of our operations (more than 12,000 to-date) do not occur in natural disaster or war zones, whenever they do we ALWAYS do our best assist with humanitarian efforts. For example, in Nepal we executed approx. 125 operations for our members but processed over 200 humanitarian cases in the first 24 hours after the earthquake. In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, we flew numerous charter flights into Port-au-Prince and donated all available capacity to aid organizations who used it to transport personnel, medicines and supplies. In Lebanon we identified cancer patients desperately in need of treatment who we brought via private aircraft back to the United States for care. However, our members always come first and we are unwavering in our support of them. Our medical personnel and special operations veterans will do what is necessary, sometimes in very difficult circumstances, to bring our members home, sometimes at the risk of their own lives. We are an organization founded on doing whatever it takes to help people and for this we will never apologize.

For those of you interested in travel insurance, we will be announcing what we think is a best-in-class offering at the beginning of June, so check back with us then if you want to protect your trip in addition to yourself!