Resort staff pressured ill guests to sign NDAs during Cancun vacation, say Sask. families [Video]

Two Saskatchewan families say they felt more like hostages than guests of a resort in Mexico when they got severely ill and were pressured by staff to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in exchange for medical help.

Jesslyn Schigol, her husband and two sons — a teenager and a four-month-old — travelled from Yorkton, Sask., to the Royalton Splash Riviera Cancun in Mexico for a Christmas holiday. On Christmas morning, Schigol sought medical help at the resort’s front desk when her husband couldn’t stop vomiting, his second bout of sickness after they had arrived about a week earlier.

“The front desk presented me with this NDA and said, ‘You must sign this. This is a must or else we’re not sending the doctor to come see your husband,'” Schigol said.

“I said, ‘There’s no way I’m signing this as it pretty much says you can’t say anything, you can’t come …