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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Why would anyone go to Cuba,.....My reason for trying to do so is that Largemouth Bass are considered an invasive species and the lakes, rivers, ponds are not fished by the locals for them. There are probably a hundred world record contenders in the island.
They deserve it for breaking the embargo.
Good except for the apostrophe error in the last line.
I would sue...and, probably settle for a nice ‘57 two-door Chevy Belair.
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