A group of British holidaymakers have been diagnosed with a gastric illness after they attended a family wedding at a five star resort abroad. Around 24 people say they experienced vomiting, diarrhoea and fevers after staying at the TUI Blue Sensatori Atlantica Aphrodite Hills Hotel in Kouklia, Cyrpus. This includes Charlotte Warner, 29 and her partner Paul Richard, 40, who flew to the hotel on October 11 last year for the wedding.
Charlotte was fine until the last day of her two week stay, when she was suddenly struck down with vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pains, fever and headaches. She collapsed while going through the airport and when she returned to the UK, her GP diagnosed her with gastroenteritis. Charlotte said: "I’ve never been so ill, but we knew we had to make it to the airport somehow.
"We didn’t know what we’d have done otherwise, particularly with our young son to care for. I was still ill days later and my GP said there wasn’t much to be done but keep hydrated. I literally couldn’t do anything for myself, I was completely floored.
" Charlotte says she saw food being left uncovered at the buffet and the same dishes being served on more than one occasion. She also claims new food was added to old dishes and some items on the buffet appeared visibly undercooked or mouldy. Charlotte, of Brighton, East Sussex, added there was a number of flies and birds in the restaurant area and that wild cats would go on the tables.
The mum-of-one said: “The whole fami.