The Times Online reports today that hotels in Mexico are offering free holidays to people who catch swine flu:
Hotels in Mexico are offering free holidays to tourists who catch swine flu in their resorts in a bid to restore confidence in the destination.
The initiative, which involves three hotel chains, is being led by Real Resorts, which owns three hotels in Cancun and Playa del Carmen.
The company’s guarantee offers three years of free holidays to any guest who contracts the (H1N1) flu virus within 14 days of visiting its resorts in Cancun or Playa del Carmen.
Hmm. Is that going to work? Reminds me of the time last year when I collapsed two days after returning from Thailand and ended up in hospital with the suspicion of having caught something nasty due to the hundreds of insect bites I’d gotten.
I was fine a few days later, and visited Thailand again just a couple of months after, but for a while there I was absolutely not considering a return to the same place…