Dozens of Canadians got sick at Mexican all-inclusive resort, call for facility inspection [Video]

Canadians who recently travelled to Mexico are calling on local authorities to investigate after dozens of guests got sick at the all-inclusive beachside resort they stayed at.

Winnipeg wedding photographer Joel Boily and another guest estimated that around 200 Canadian guests staying at Sandos Playacar — a four-star resort in Playa del Carmen, in the country’s Caribbean coast — all suffered this past week from bouts of illness. 

Boily said that includes almost everyone of the more than 30 guests who were there to attend the wedding he was photographing, as well as his young children, who spent several days experiencing severe vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration.

“We arrived on Wednesday and by Friday it was clear … it was more than just Montezuma’s revenge or whatever people call it,” Boily said. He believes the illness was due to food poisoning.

“My two-year-old — it was looking pretty grim,” he said. …