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Canadian travellers report illnesses at Cuban resorts promoted and operated by Sunwing
globalnews.ca ^ | january 18, 2016 | sean o'shea

Posted on 01/18/2016 8:08:38 PM PST by lowbridge

Unsanitary washrooms, unsafe food handling practices, unrelenting stomach pains, vomiting and diarrhea: these are some of the complaints being reported about popular Canadian vacations destinations in Cuba promoted and operated by Sunwing Vacations of Toronto.

"It's very severe, and I am struggling a week later," said Amanda Klein of Medicine Hat, Alta., who recently returned from Cuba and says she is still experiencing stomach problems.

Klein, 26, spent a week with her boyfriend and two other Canadian couples at the Memories Paraiso Azul Beach Hotel in Cayo Santa Maria, Cuba between Jan. 5 and 12.

But within days of the Canadians' arrival, Klein says five of the six guests were violently ill with vomiting and diarrhea.

Klein says the group stopped eating at the all-inclusive resort-which they booked through Sunwing Vacations-after witnessing troubling food-handling practices.

"Numerous staff put their hands in food, licked their hands and put their hands in the food we were supposed to eat," she said.

She said her group became alarmed when they watched staff members clearing tables in the buffet restaurant.

"They would collect the dirty dishes from the tables, and if it looked like they weren't used, then left them on the table," Klein told Global News, adding many of the dishes were dirty.

In 2015, Global News reported extensively on illnesses at the resort that affected Canadian vacationers. Last week, visitors to the Memories resort and certain other Cuba resorts began reporting sickness similar to those that were documented last year.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Travel
KEYWORDS: canuckianpeso; cuba; loonie
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1 posted on 01/18/2016 8:08:38 PM PST by lowbridge
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Cuba doing work Mexican water won’t do.


2 posted on 01/18/2016 8:12:42 PM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: lowbridge

There you people go, posting up more of your scurrilous attacks on Ted Cruz.


3 posted on 01/18/2016 8:13:38 PM PST by Yashcheritsiy (What good is a constitution if you don't have a country to go with it?)
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Lol


4 posted on 01/18/2016 8:14:12 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: lowbridge

Why would anyone go to Cuba, when there’s the Dominican Republic?


5 posted on 01/18/2016 8:15:07 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Autonomous User

“Tourista” —— Cuba at its best. Enjoy!


6 posted on 01/18/2016 8:20:13 PM PST by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2016!)
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7 posted on 01/18/2016 8:24:33 PM PST by Helicondelta
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I don’t see what the problem is. Michael Moree assured us that Cuba has world class healthcare.

Do I really need the sarc tag?


8 posted on 01/18/2016 8:28:00 PM PST by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel)
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To: lowbridge

Che’s Revenge


9 posted on 01/18/2016 8:30:51 PM PST by windcliff
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To: lowbridge

first they get diseases from the whores now they get it from Cuban resorts...


10 posted on 01/18/2016 8:42:36 PM PST by RginTN
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To: Yashcheritsiy
There you people go, posting up more of your scurrilous attacks on Ted Cruz.

It's Ted's Fault he didn't do a good enough jorb enforcing the Canadian border, eh?


11 posted on 01/18/2016 8:46:10 PM PST by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: lowbridge

Cruz must be doing fundraiser.


12 posted on 01/18/2016 8:53:11 PM PST by jennychase
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To: lowbridge

*** Memories Paraiso ***
Not the Paradise Memories they were hoping for, eh?


13 posted on 01/18/2016 8:55:30 PM PST by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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Gonahreah...


14 posted on 01/18/2016 8:55:32 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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15 posted on 01/18/2016 8:57:45 PM PST by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: lowbridge

Cuba huh?


16 posted on 01/18/2016 9:00:53 PM PST by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: lowbridge

Yep, with the low Canadian dollar exchange rate, choices are limited to foreign ghetto vacations. That’s one cheap currency.


17 posted on 01/18/2016 9:32:17 PM PST by familyop
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To: lowbridge

Only banana republic loving libs would choose Cuba as a vacation spot. Glad they found out what a great place it is.


18 posted on 01/18/2016 9:50:40 PM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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Does Cuba buy Mexican produce like Chipotle?


19 posted on 01/18/2016 10:20:55 PM PST by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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Who wouldn’t want to vacation at a gulag ?


20 posted on 01/19/2016 12:06:41 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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