From bouts of food poisoning to hours-long delays stranded at airports in the Caribbean, these are some of the travel nightmares CTV News and CP24 readers have shared with us so far.
CTVNews.ca that several of his wedding guests started"dropping like flies." "Some didn't get out of bed for four days and didn't get any food in their systems," Pontarelli said. According to the Quebec man, 80 of the 90 people in his group fell ill with symptoms like vomiting and diarrhea.
One guest, Pontarelli says, was puking so much that he broke his cheekbone on the sink as well as three fingers. The resort did not respond to CTV News' request for comment.Jessica Fillmore told CTV News Barrie that one of their group members was diagnosed with a food-borne illness on site, after several of their members already fell ill. She said there were also unsanitary conditions in their room and a stench of sewage at Sandos Playacar. Hotel staff started enforcing stricter sanitary measures and shut off access to water after receiving several complaints from guests. The group asked for bottled water, but was initially denied. "The funny thing is three days later, they started providing water bottles to everybody's room," Robbin Fendley, who also attended the trip, told CTV News Barrie.In a statement, the resort said it had received reports of illness affecting"several" resorts in the region, including its own. The hotel chain also said at that time, there has been"no evidence of contamination."Nathan Wombwell and his sister Bethany Brubacher flew to Liberia, Costa Rica with 10 of their family members, including four kids under the age of five, in January. After they boarded their WestJet flight to Toronto, they were told they would have to stay for a while as there was a customs-related issue involving one of the flight attendants. According to the family, they waited five hours onboard the plane until the flight was outright cancelled. "We were one of the lucky ones," Wombell said."We found a small hole-in-the-wall . Super sketchy." The family left the following day, after spending thousands of dollars. WestJet apologized for the inconvenience, and confirmed to CTV News Kitchener the delays were due to customs and runway issues.
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