Stomach bug during holiday

[UndercoverAspie]

We caught a stomach bug during our stay at Centreparcs (children had it first, then me, then husband) and cut our holiday short. IMO the swimming plaza in particular seemed like a cesspool to me. AIBU to want to claim some sort of compensation from them, and has anyone else had similar?

You could have caught it from anywhere at Center Parcs. I've always found their pool very clean. Can't imagine you'd be able to claim for anything. Same happened to us at Butlins once. Sorry your holiday was cut short.

That sounds miserable but YABU I think - you could have got the bug from anyone, anywhere. I don’t see how you could possibly prove it was Centreparcs’ fault.

We got poisoned on holiday at Butlins when ds was a toddler, we thought it came from the Burger King as nobody was wiping the tables & high chairs. It was the only place we had eaten except our chalet. We lost half of our holiday & I lost a week at work when we returned.

Don't be ridiculous, you could have picked it up and been incubating it before you arrived! I've been to center parcs twice a year for over 20 years and never had an issue with the cleanliness. Not a chance will they offer compensation without proof of culpability- which you don't have.

@Nat6999 if the tables were dirty, why on earth did you eat there?! And how can you tell its food poisoning over a common virus such as noro?

Does your travel insurance give you some cover/compensation for this?

Why would they compensate you for a common garden stomach bug?

This is why I'd never go in the pool at centre parcs. I think it's a bit notorious as a cesspool

The incubation period is typically a few days- so the timing fits for us. We’d stayed on-site the whole time

It was not food poisoning

This is helpful thanks- will check

What did your stool sample say? If it was something like cryptospiridium you could highly likely put that down to the pool. But if you had that you'd probably still be ill.

In my experience with bugs, incubation can be more then a few days. My children ALWAYS catch tummy bugs from each other 1-2 weeks apart....yes 2 weeks! NEVER EVER has it been just a 1-3 days like most people mention. I have 3 kids. The older two 20 months apart. So the older two always shared their bugs and it always took that long for tummy bugs to be shared between them. Now they are older so do not share them anymore, thank GOD. But if one of them has a tummy bug, the youngest who is two always gets it a week or two later.

How are you going to prove you got it at Center Parcs, though?

And how do you know it isn't food poisoning - have you had samples sent off for testing?

Malbecandtoast they weren't dirty like you could see but after we started being ill we realised we had never seen anyone going round with the spray & a cloth like you normally do, we hadn't been to any of the large events in the place, we only used it to sleep & as a base as we had only paid peanuts due to it being one of those cheap holidays in The Sun.

Unless you have results from a stool sample proving it came from the pool, of course you can't get a refund. There's just no proof that you caught it from there