Disgusted Brit holiday-makers sue TUI for £200k after enduring sewage in pool & maggot-infested meals at high-end resort

SICKENED British holiday-makers who endured sewage successful the excavation and maggot-infested salads astatine a five-star edifice are suing TUI for £200,000.

The 23, who paid up to £7,700 for all-inclusive household breaks, accidental they fell sick from unwashed salads and undercooked nutrient astatine a supposedly gourmet edifice successful the analyzable successful Cancun, Mexico.

Food near retired for hours was crawling with flies and beverage and sushi went unrefrigerated astatine the Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya Resort & Spa, they allege.

Poolside loos overflowed, leaving guests walking done sewage to get to the water, it is claimed successful a High Court people action.

Visitors suffered problems including diarrhoea, vomiting, salmonella and parasitic infections betwixt July and October 2022.

The radical accuses TUI of failing successful its ineligible work to guarantee basal hygiene astatine the resort.

Katie Richards, 36 and hubby Ashley, 27, mislaid astir a chromatic aft falling ill.

Katie said: “We spent our honeymoon successful the Riviera Maya country and had an astonishing clip truthful we were excited to beryllium coming back.

"But this clip astir was precise antithetic and we spent fractional of our vacation ill.

“There were flies, cats, birds and adjacent raccoons hanging around, and we recovered a maggot successful the crockery 1 evening.

“The full acquisition was thing compared to what a five-star edifice should be, and we were sick for a agelong clip aft coming home.

“While there’s thing we tin bash to alteration what happened, we merit immoderate answers.”

TUI has not admitted liability.

It said: “As this is simply a ineligible contented we are incapable to comment.”

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