After splashing out more than £5k on a five-star holiday , a family were struck down by sickness and diarrhoea - along with multiple other holidaymakers. Bunty Shah, 50, and his wife Panna, 46, travelled to the TUI Blue Manar in Hammamet, Tunisia on July 5 for a two week holiday. The family, alongside their daughter Jasmine, 12, and son Dylan, 19, all fell ill during and just after the supposed luxury trip.
Bunty - who has the lifelong digestive condition Crohn's disease - and Panna continue to suffer with symptoms including diarrhoea more than two weeks after returning home from their holiday. Specialist international serious injury lawyers at Irwin Mitchell say they have been contacted by "a growing number" of people who fell ill at the hotel, including at least 12 tourists. All the holidaymakers involved had booked their trips through popular tour operator TUI.
READ MORE: 'My dad died after swimming in sea with tiny cut that became infected with flesh-eating bacteria' Panna, of Potters Bar, Herts., said: "We couldn't even keep down water and I've never been so ill in my life. All we wanted was to be home.
To make matters worse when we did try to raise our concerns, we felt ignored. It was such a relief to get home but it wasn't the case of getting home and feeling better. Even now we're still not right and suffering symptoms.
" She continued: "We've since see social media rumours regarding the hotel and that other guests have also reported falling ill so you wonder how man.