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Getting your cell phone ready to use in Mexico is pretty simple to set up and it can make your trip a whole lot easier.

Luckily, there is a good way to determine the credibility and reliability of your insurance company, and that is by checking their A.M. Best rating.

With everything that’s been going on lately – from an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to clouds of volcanic ash causing dozens of European airports to be closed, more and more people are looking into purchasing anything from business travel insurance to medical travel insurance before they take a business trip or go on holiday.

So long as the full impact of the supposed swine flu pandemic is a matter of conjecture rather than fact, the golden rule for travellers appears to be: when you spend anything on a holiday booking, buy travel insurance straightaway, even if the departure date is months away.

More than a million patients worldwide visit hospitals and clinics each year in countries other than their own. Here are 13 questions frequently asked by medical travelers—and the answers you need to know before you decide whether to journey abroad for medical care.

With gas prices and airfare on the rise, you probably want to save money on every aspect of your trip. Cheap hotels are one idea, but vacation rentals, furnished apartments and even youth hostels can be lower cost alternatives.

“With the rising costs of healthcare in the U.S., international hospitals and clinics report a 15-40 percent increase in the number of Americans seeking treatment,” reports Laura Carabello, publisher and managing editor of Your Medical Travel. “Many people simply cannot afford U.S. price tags and are discovering more cost effective options as close by as Mexico and as far away as Singapore, Israel, New Zealand and India. This newsletter serves the interests of those who choose to travel overseas for quality care at a fraction of the cost.”

Many diseases that once killed children in infancy have been virtually wiped out by modern medicine in the United States, but doctors want to remind parents that many diseases still live in foreign countries.