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Just heard this. They need to checkout where their liquor is coming from.
Yeah. I've only stayed once at an All-Inclusive resort. It was in Mexico. The room had this dispenser for liquor. Rum? Vodka? Two other things? I can't remember. I tasted one and it just wasn't right. This was a couple of years before all of these stories started coming out. We ended up not using the room dispensers at all, just had our cocktails (mostly stuck with bottled beer) at the restaurants and bars at the resort and in town. At the time I just thought the stuff out of the tap in our room tasted like really cheap liquor, we're too old to appreciate really bad liquor. Now I wonder what that stuff was.
I've stayed at all-inclusive resorts in Mexico, but our minibar was always stocked with unopened (sealed) full size bottles of brand name liquor at check-in. I would not have accepted already opened liquor bottles. They could be putting anything in there, which could be the problem in at least some of these deaths. Home-distilled or even mass produced low quality liquor, though MUCH cheaper for the resort, can be toxic depending on ingredients, the pesticides used on the ingredients, pesticides used around the distillery facilities, etc.
The other deaths, I suspect, are probably related to overexposure to toxic pesticides on the resort premises such that isn't allowed in the US and other developed countries.
I've stayed at all-inclusive resorts in Mexico, but our minibar was always stocked with unopened (sealed) full size bottles of brand name liquor at check-in. I would not have accepted already opened liquor bottles. They could be putting anything in there, which could be the problem in at least some of these deaths. Home-distilled or even mass produced low quality liquor, though MUCH cheaper for the resort, can be toxic depending on ingredients, the pesticides used on the ingredients, pesticides used around the distillery facilities, etc.
The other deaths, I suspect, are probably related to overexposure to toxic pesticides on the resort premises such that isn't allowed in the US and other developed countries.
i dont think you should use the US as standard for pesticide safety, The US uses ore banned pesticides than any other developed and even underdeveloped countries, especially more than Latin american countries, why?
Latam countries have to adhere to the very strict European pesticides regulations in order to export there, the US for the most part, do not, and uses ton of banned pesticides.
This is very disturbing. I have stayed at the very resorts in the DR that these deaths have occurred at. I had nothing but pleasant experiences, but I I haven't been in several years and won't be going back.
Living in the U.S, I have plenty of places that I can visit and vacation without having to opt for a 3rd world country in order to save a few bucks and risk my life.
All these people had current or former heart conditions. Whatever it is that was tainted, what was in it--a drug or pesticide or whatever--may be deadly to people with heart conditions. Explains why others weren't affected. The drug may be undetectable, perhaps. Just seems way too much for it to be coincidental.
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Originally Posted by louie0406
Living in the U.S, I have plenty of places that I can visit and vacation without having to opt for a 3rd world country in order to save a few bucks and risk my life.
I was never interested in those kinds of places outside the U.S (like the tropical islands/beaches and stuff like that). They never appealed to me. Now if for some reason Civil War sites became risky, I'd probably run the risk because of my love for those places. Just depends on what gets you and what really isn't your thing.
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