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Worried about food or alcohol poisoning while at Caribbean all-inclusive resorts?
August 21, 2017
With all these news about tainted alcohol and food poisoning at Caribbean all-inclusive resorts many of our clients keep asking a question: How bad the situation with food and alcohol is?
We have just conducted a study to find out the probability of food or alcohol poisoning at Caribbean all-inclusive resorts.
We simply performed text mining on TripAdvisor reviews on over 50 most popular all-inclusive resorts among our clients and found out the percentage of people who complaint about this issue. We understand that not everybody complaints and we don't know severity of such cases. However we can easily see the overall picture.
The average probability get poisoned among all these resorts is 0.4%. Which means that among 1000 people, 4 might get food or alcohol poisoning.
Given such low probability I don't see any major concerns why you should skip your Caribbean vacation because all these news that are not justified by facts. Just keep an eye how much and what you drink, pay attention what you eat and in certain destinations (e.g. Dominican Republic) use bottled water for drinking and brushing your teeth.
Enjoy your vacation!
Here are the best and the worst resorts.
THE BEST (probability is less than 0.2%)
Hyatt Ziva Cancun
Azul Beach Riviera Maya
Hilton Rose Hall Suites
Iberostar Rose Hall Grand
Royalton White Sands
Azul Sensatori Negril
Hyatt Ziva Montego Bay
Hyatt Zilara Montego Bay
Riu Palace St. Martin
Riu Palace Antilas Aruba
THE WORST (probability is more than 0.6%)
Iberostar Bavaro Suites
Iberostar Punta Cana
Riu Palace Bavaro
Barcelo Bavaro Palace Deluxe
Iberostar Hacienda Dominicus
Dreams La Romana
Sunscape Bavaro Beach
ClubMed Punta Cana
Resorts/ Probability to get poisoning (%)
Cancun/Riviera Maya
Finest Playa Mujeres 0.30
La Blanc Cancun 0.30
Hyatt Ziva Cancun 0.10
Hyatt Zilara Cancun 0.20
Moon Palace Riviera Cancun 0.40
ClubMed Cancun 0.20
Dreams Riviera Cancun 0.60
Dreams Puerto Aventuras 0.50
Azul Beach 0.10
Paradisus la Esmeralda 0.30
Paradisus la Perla 0.20
Riu Palace Mexico 0.40
Riu Palace Riviera Maya 0.30
Iberostar Paraiso Del Mar 0.60
Iberostar Paraiso Lindo 0.60
Iberostar Paradiso Maya 0.50
Iberostar Paradiso Grand 0.50
Iberostar Tucan 0.30
Grand Palladium Colonial 0.60
Barcelo Maya Palace 0.50
Barcelo Maya Beach 0.60
Secrets Akumal 0.20
Grand Velas Riviera Maya 0.30
Grand Bahia Tulum 0.30
Dominican Republic
Paradisus Palma Real 0.30
Paradisus Punta Cana 0.57
Iberostar Bavaro Suites 1.32
Iberostar Bavaro Grand 0.33
Iberostar Punta Cana 0.86
Riu Palace Bavaro 0.67
Barcelo Bavaro Palace Deluxe 0.78
Breathless Punta Cana 0.28
Memories Splash Punta Cana 0.56
Royalton Punta Cana 0.38
Iberostar Haceinda Dominicus 0.81
Dreams La Romana 1.00
Sunscape Bavaro Beach 0.69
ClubMed Punta Cana 0.95
Jamaica
Hilton Rose Hall Suites 0.13
Iberostar Rose Hall Suites 0.27
Iberostar Rose Hall Grand 0.13
Royalton White Sands 0.13
Grand Palladium Montego Bay 0.46
Azul Sensatori Negril 0.05
Riu Ocho Rios 0.30
Riu Palace Tropical 0.25
Hyatt Ziva Montego Bay 0.00
Hyatt Zilara Montego Bay 0.09
St. Martin
Riu Palace St. Martin 0.00
Aruba
Riu Palace Aruba 0.46
Riu Palace Antillas Aruba 0.15
Barcelo Aruba 0.17
Costa Rica
Riu Guanacaste 0.52
Riu Palace Costa Rica 0.57
Dreams La Mareas Costa Rica 0.20
Bahamas
Riu Palace Paradise Island 0.59
Melia Bahamas 0.28
Turks and Caicos
Beaches Turks and Caicos 0.44
Florida
ClubMed Sandpiper Bay 0.20