Bronxcutie
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Already canceled my DR trip. I’ll be going to the Bahamas.
I love the Bahamas. Enjoy!Already canceled my DR trip. I’ll be going to the Bahamas.
This is crazy and he’s from the DR
And another one. At what body count does this place get shut down?
California man died in April at Dominican Republic resort after drink from hotel room minibar, family says
A fourth U.S. tourist died after he fell critically and suddenly ill at an all-inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic about a month before three others died in their rooms, Fox News has learned.
Robert Bell Wallace, 67, of California, became ill almost immediately after he had a scotch from the room minibar at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino resort in Punta Cana, his niece, Chloe Arnold, told Fox News on Sunday. He was in the Dominican Republic to attend his stepson’s wedding.
Arnold said her uncle, an avid traveler, had been in relatively good health and just the month before had been skiing in Lake Tahoe.
At all-inclusive resorts like this one, everything in the room is included.I guess that it is good that I am too cheap to drink anything from the mini bar in hotels.
Are they watering down all the drinks or do some people not get sick from the contamination?
Another one??? Also, the "I Was Poisoned" website has numerous reports from people who got sick at some of these resorts, mainly the Hard Rock in Punta Cana.
I’m down here now at a resort. Last night on the local news they featured the black engaged couple and attributed their deaths to possible overdoses of oxicotin and something to treat rheumatoid arthritis that they had prescriptions for treatment. No mention of these other cases.
Also last night, SO and I were walking late at night and a golf cart with pesticides was driving around spraying everything. I had a real panicked as it drove pass me twice fumigating and I inhaled so much of it trying to just walk back to my room. I’m so pissed they just fumigate so sloppily (roads and sidewalks while people are walking’)
Apparently..not only Americans ..the witness stories are trickling in...
‘COULD HAVE BEEN US’
Brit couple ‘poisoned by air con’ at resort in Dominican Republic where four tourists mysteriously died
EXCLUSIVE
- By Mark Hodge
A BRIT mum was hospitalised after breathing in “chemical” fumes at a hotel resort in the Dominican Republic where four tourists have died in recent months.
- 12 Jun 2019, 19:01
- Updated: 12 Jun 2019, 19:48
Sara Taylor, 53, from Poole, Dorset, and her family were forced to move rooms at the Grand Bahia Principe resort on May 29 when they began choking on the toxic air in their suite.
Sara and Kevin Taylor suffered health problems after breathing in fumes at the Grand Bahia Principe in the Dominican RepublicCredit: Sara Taylor
Hotel staff sealed off rooms in the couple's apartment block using sellotape around the door frame
Sara's family said they smelt 'chemical' fumes in their room and demanded to be moved
The following morning, American couple Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Day, 49, were found dead in their beds at the hotel.
A total of six tourists have died at resorts on the Caribbean island in recent months – four at the Grand Bahia and its sister hotel Luxury Bahia Príncipe Bouganville which are five minutes walk from each other.
Sara and her husband Kevin, 59, believe the fumes they smelt had come into the room through the air conditioning vent.
The British mum told The Sun Online that her entire family – including Kevin's son, his partner and their nine-year-old boy - suffered health problems after spending no more than 30 minutes in the conjoining room.
She says she attended A&E shortly after returning home to the UK after suffering breathing problems.
Sara said: “We all had headaches, a couple of us had diarrhoea, my husband had heart palpatations and I had problems with my breathing.
“But I thought it was the humidity of the holiday and the change in diet.
“We arrived back in the UK on June 6 and I was still getting breathing problems and I was using my inhaler a lot more.
The British housewife says that 11 of the 16 rooms in her block were sealed offCredit: Sara Taylor
The morning after the British family were moved another couple at the resort were found dead
Credit: Sara Taylor
“When we arrived back in the UK on June 6, I rang 111 to get medical advice and they told me I should go straight to Accident and Emergency.
“When I arrived at the hospital they gave me an ECG, chest x-rays, blood tests and gave me a nebuliser to help with my breathing.
“The doctors believe the symptoms I was having were the result of me breathing in these chemicals - whatever they were - in our room."
On the evening her family were moved suite, Sara went back to the apartment block, named Villa 25, and photographed the room doors which were sealed with “thick sellotape.”
She says that 11 of the 16 rooms were sealed and had ‘Do Not Disturb’ signs on them – yet the hotel still allowed her family to live in the building for the first week of their holiday.
Sara fears that if her family had stayed in the room, or had fallen asleep before the fumes had filled the suite, they would have died.
She is relieved her husband, who owns a company which installs and maintains air conditioners, recognised the danger and demanded they move building.
The Brit said: “If we had stayed in those rooms that night - we wouldn't be here now.
“We feel devastated that we didn’t knock on the other doors now to see if they had the same problem as us
“Our thoughts are with all those who lost their lives and their families and friends
“I don't want anyone to have to go through their family members going on holiday and not coming home like those poor Americans did.”
Sara, who married Kevin in the Dominican Republic in 2008, says hotel staff refused to tell them why the rooms had been sealed off.
She insisted she will demand a refund from her holiday tour operator TUI, formerly Thomsons.
An ex-FBI boss has called for a major investigation into the recent spate of deaths at the resorts in the Dominican Republic.
'Poisoning' deaths at resorts in the Dominican Republic
Former bureau deputy assistant director Danny Coulson told FOX News: "It doesn't make much sense.
- Robert Bell Wallace, 67, died on Aprl 13 after he became sick and "urinated blood" after he had one whisky from his room minibar at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Punta Cana.
- American David Harrison, 45, of Maryland, died in July last year at the same Hard Rock Hotel resort after a sudden heart attack.
- His heartbroken widow Dawn McCoy said her husband was mumbling inanely and complained of a "very potent, strange smell".
- Miranda Schaup-Werner, 41, collapsed died in her room after having a drink from her minibar at the Luxury Bahia Principe Bouganville in La Romana, 70 miles west of Punta Cana
- Five days later, Edward Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Day, 49, were found dead in their room at the neighbouring Grand Bahia Principe resort.
- And it has since emerged Yvette Monique Short, 51, passed away she had a drink from the minibar.
- It wasn’t clear if Mr Holmes and Ms Day drank from the minibar, and their deaths were attributed by officials to respiratory failure.
"This thing doesn't pass the smell test. These people didn't have simultaneous heart attacks.
"There needs to be a major investigation."
Authorities from both the US and the Dominican Republic are currently on the ground investigating the deaths amid fears the tourists may have been poisoned.
Coulson offered his opinion on the case, saying he believed "environmental issues" were to blame.
He explained that pesticide restrictions were "pretty liberal" in the region.
"If you've been to one of these hotels they spray [pesticides] all the time."
The former law enforcement chief urged authorities to release toxicology reports of the victims.
A total of 30 million tourists have visited the island in the past five years and 2.7 million US tourists visit the popular holiday destination every year.
179,000 British nationals visited the Dominican Republic in 2017.
I’m down here now at a resort. Last night on the local news they featured the black engaged couple and attributed their deaths to possible overdoses of oxicotin and something to treat rheumatoid arthritis that they had prescriptions for treatment. No mention of these other cases.
Also last night, SO and I were walking late at night and a golf cart with pesticides was driving around spraying everything. I had a real panicked as it drove pass me twice fumigating and I inhaled so much of it trying to just walk back to my room. I’m so pissed they just fumigate so sloppily (roads and sidewalks while people are walking’)
This is so infuriating! Bahia Principe resorts in the DR need to be shut down and the employees belong in prison.
The news of John's death comes in the wake of suspicious deaths of Americans in Dominican Republic hotels starting in June 2018. Two Americans died at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana while four have died at various Bahia Principe resorts. It is unclear at which resort John was staying.
Tourism is so critical to the economy that they don't want to acknowledge there's a problem and stop the $$$. If they know what's good for their bottom line, they will isolate and close just the resorts that are problematic. Seems fairly easy... unless the problem is even more widespread than the reports now trickling out suggest.They’re full of it What a twisted country.
This was my experience during a recent beach hotel resort stay in Spain. The Spanish employees were fine but the white European guests creeped me out so bad with the constant staring and occasional pointing and whispering. I kept texting my family telling them I feel like the guy in Get Out. I was by myself and it came to a point where I would take my food to my room instead of eating at the resort restaurants because being treated like a walking exhibit became too much. I heard staring is a thing in Europe (although black people are targeted more) so I didn’t feel unsafe just annoyed but had I read more stories like the ones in this thread before my visit I probably would’ve freaked out. Glad to hear your friend is safe and I will never step foot in the DR!
It happened to me when I was in China. I just stare right back until they look away. You take my picture, I take your picture. If I'm not by myself, you point at me, I point right back.This happened to me years ago in Canada. People would literally stop, turn around, and point everywhere I went. I didn't know if it was because I was Black, 6'1, or something else. It was creepy.