UK: Family’s holiday illness nightmare - (Sheffield Telegraph)
August 8, 2008 – 11:34 pmA dream holiday for a Sheffield family was ruined when all six of them were struck down with a gastric bug that left them confined to the bedroom for a week.
Vicky and Carl Knight and their 15-year-old son Nicholas planned the holiday with Vicky’s brother John Booth, his wife Julie and their daughter Chloe, 17, to mark Vicky’s birthday.
It was meant to be a luxury, five star break, staying in the Movenpick Hotel in the Egyptian resort of Taba but the day before Vicky turned 47 the whole family was struck down with severe sickness, stomach pains and diarrhoea.
As a result they each remained in their hotel bedrooms for most of the second week of the £4,000 all-inclusive holiday going downstairs only to fetch some dry bread and lemonade.
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