Bosnia insurance warning!
 

Yesterday i passed from Serbia to Bosnia through the post at Vardiste.As usual i needed to buy insurance (UK insurance for EU only, etc) so was directed to the (solitary) hut selling insurance from "Kosig Dunav Osiguraje AD - Banja Luka". The guy there then charged me 30Euros for 3 days insurance... if i wanted 5 days it would be 50Euros etc. As i didn´t have any Euros left i paid the rough equivalent in Sterling. So i left none the wiser. In Sarajevo i visit the National Auto-Moto club BihAMK and they suggest i try another Sarajevo-based firm instead of having to go to Pale (a few Km´s out of Sarajevo) to extend with Kosig Dunav at the office there. So i visit "Sarajevo Osiguranje" and they offer 17 days for 17KM (about 9Euros!!).So i buy a policy there. I then visit the Tourist Info in Sarajevo to see if they can help with finding out about this massive change in costs. The lady there is fantastic help, ringing the Director of Kosig Dunav for an explanation... He says the true cost should have been 20Euros (not a lot of change there, then) so the Border guy has pocketed the difference. He had "forgotten" to print the true price of the policy on the Insurance note, you see. Turns out this (still) enormous price is the price at the Border for no Green Card. Utter rubbish, of course, as in Macedonia i paid 50Euro for 15 days, and Serbia 85Euro for a year (no option of course!). So i heartily recommend an email to saosfsar@bih.net.ba (or any other insurance co you can find)for info re a quote for Bosnia insurance. :thumbdown:

Sorry to hear that! :( So the UK insurances do not issue the green card? It seems we're better off in Germany in that respect. I've just checked my green insurance card and it is valid for Bosnia, Macedonia and Serbia as well as the other Balcan countries...

It certainly seems that our continental cousins do have a better deal than us poor Brits.Mind you Serb travellers need to buy Bosnian insurance (apparently, or so i'm told...), yet Bosnians are OK for Serbia - it's all sooo confused, even here!I wonder if ADAC will cover Brit bikers?

Pottsy - I can't answer your question but I do know they will cover an American biker on an American bike with American license plates.

Just checked with AA, my insurers, and my policy covers Slovenia and Croatia but not Bosnia & Herzogivena and Montenegro, however, they can issue a green card for those two countries. Seems it all depends upon what the underwriters have agreed to. If you buy insurance at the border is it fully comprehensive? I've been told you can only get third party.

We passed through into Serbia a few weeks back. paid IIRC 15 Euro for our Land Rover. We tried to tell them we were covered under our UK insurance but they wouldn't have it.

You are correct, its only 3rd party.

I also read before entering Serbia that insurance for a vehicle was 1 month minimum and it would be 120 Euro. We thought we would try the border, nobody asked or said anything so we just passed through to Bulgaria in a few days and did't get stopped or asked for anything.

G

I travelled in Bosnia in 2011 on my geriatric tenere and didn't have a problem or get asked to buy it?..
Got stopped once by police that seemed more intrigued about me having an inner tube taped on my front mud guard.

It is real luck to see how much you are charged. My insurance company will not give me a green card.

August 2011, I was charge 120E from croatia to serbia for a months insurance in my Land Rover. A week later in montenegro I was charged about 10 or so!

It varies from country to country and border to border. I guess it goes with the territory.