Holiday Illness or Sickness | Holidaymakers Stories | Holiday Complaints | 2009
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010The range of holiday illness reports for 2009, was probably the worst we had experienced since this organisation was formed 15 years ago! Sickness complaints are the most common form of complaint that we receive! Salmonella, Giardia, Cryptosporidium, E-Coli O157, so-called Norovirus were just some of the many confirmed diagnoses we received; this did not account for the many holidaymakers who were affected by serious gastric illness complaints and those who were not ill but nonetheless had to care for their sick relatives and friends and suffered in many cases, a complete loss of enjoyment! Chidren on drips, old people suffering serious illness often in isolation, ambulances taking holidaymakers to hospital, people populating medical centres in hotels because they are too ill to stay in their rooms, wholesale administration of anti-biotics which in some countries are drugs that are actually banned in Western countries – these are the real experiences of British & other European holidaymakers! The problems are well illustrated by the holidaymakers stories illustrated on this page! We have only reproduced these stories from our e mail contacts. These holidaymakers stories have been presented to the EU Commission in our campaigning reports! The stories have been left largely unedited; they are in the words of the holidaymakers who have contacted us. The names of travel companies have been removed because we consider the story or the experience of the holidaymaker is central! Read More




HTW has noted that amongst the submissions to the Committee on Toxicity (COT) it has been suggested that the symptoms highlighted by crew and passengers were akin to the condition of hyperventilation.
HTW has for many years received reports from concerned holiday makers or independent travellers as to the safety of their aircraft, ship or boat, train or road transport.

