Epoch Times: A group of diehard Jimmy Buffett fans from Oklahoma is among the latest in a growing list of tourists to fall sick while visiting the Dominican Republic.
According to the New York Daily News, members of the Buffett-loving Central Oklahoma Parrothead Association—dubbed the Parrotheads—traveled to Punta Cana’s Hotel Riu Palace Macao in April of this year and shortly after their arrival became violently ill.
Among them was travel agent Dana Flowers, who said that four days into the group’s excursion, he and other members began showing symptoms of a mysterious illness.
“I can’t even explain how sick I was,” Flowers told Oklahoma’s News 4.
He added that he “lost 14 pounds during that time and was really sick,” adding that by the end of the vacation, 47 of the 114 Oklahomans reported being unwell. Flowers was cited in the report as saying that many of the tourists were so sick they didn’t even leave their rooms. read more
Out of all the places in the world to visit, I’ve never once been all like, “oh yea, let’s hit up the DR.”
Here’s a few pictures just in case you were thinking about visiting. For some reason these pics are excluded from travel brochures.
like all the other cesspool countries south of our border, DR is a hard pass for me….
Jimmy Buffett’s still alive?
I’ve been to the DR and I won’t go back. I’ve been throughout the Caribbean and all I can say is that it’s one big $hithole. Inside the resorts it’s beautiful, step foot outside and it’s tin shanties. Is there resentment going on among the have’s inside (tourists), and the locals outside? I can see where some sabotage would go on and not get caught. I have no desire to ever go back to the Caribbean. If I want to see a beach, I can drive 3 hours to see one.
My experience in the Dom Rep is similar to Goldenfoxx. Don’t go.
I hear all the problems in the DR are being caused by bathtub liquor, ethanol… Or is it methanol?… I always get the two mixed up. And, apparently, so did someone in the Dominican Republic.
Maybe it’s just coincidence, but Jimmy Buffet’s music makes me sick too.
ATTENTION BUFFETT fans aka PARROTHEADS: If the bottle in your mini bar is labeled PARROT PISS, don’t drink it…it probably is parrot piss and poison!
Maybe because they were so sick they couldn’t make the wise decision to get home asap and see a doctor, but certainly the healthy among them should have known and strongly encouraged their traveling mates to leave. That’s such an odd aspect to this story.
That tells me the fans actually listened to his music.
Visited St. Thomas and St. John. I found the beaches beautiful but the poverty depressing. Found out later the islands all dump sewage in the ocean.
I was all depressed and shit about the Dominican Republic sick-thing till I read this.
izlamo delenda est …
Finally, some good news from that island!
Cheeseburger With Parasites.
Wasted away again in Clorox Bleachoville.
Bleeding from my lost liver of spots.
Some people think that Fentanyl’s to blame but I know…
It’s the hotel manager’s fault.
Still safer than Chicongo !!(or any dnc City)
I’ll bet the Clintons are behind it all!
DR: Go for the Quickie Divorce – Stay for Your Autopsy.