Worried about food or alcohol poisoning while at Caribbean all-inclusive resorts?

With all these news about tainted alcohol and food poisoning at Caribbean all-inclusive resorts many of our clients keep asking a question: How bad the situation with food and alcohol is?

We have just conducted a study to find out the probability of food or alcohol poisoning at Caribbean all-inclusive resorts.

We simply performed text mining on TripAdvisor reviews on over 50 most popular all-inclusive resorts among our clients and found out the percentage of people who complaint about this issue in the past 2 years. We understand that not everybody complaints and we don't know severity of such cases. However we can easily see the overall picture.

The average probability get poisoned among all these resorts is 0.4%. Which means that among 1000 people, 4 might get food or alcohol poisoning.

Given such low probability I don't see any major concerns why you should skip your Caribbean vacation because all these news that are not justified by facts. Just keep an eye how much and what you drink, pay attention what you eat and in certain destinations (e.g. Dominican Republic) use bottled water for drinking and brushing your teeth.

Enjoy your vacation!

Here are the best and the worst resorts.

THE BEST (probability is less than 0.2%)

Finest Playa Mujeres

La Blanc Cancun

Xcaret Riviera Maya

Azul Sensatori Negril

Beaches Negril

Beaches Ocho Rios

Hilton Rose Hall Suites

Hyatt Ziva Montego Bay

Hyatt Zilara Montego Bay

THE WORST (probability is more than 0.6%)

Barcelo Maya Beach 0.60

Grand Palladium Colonial 0.60

Hard Rock Cancun 0.68 Barcelo Bavaro Palace Deluxe 0.88

Iberostar Bavaro Selection 1.20

Iberostar Punta Cana 0.60

Paradisus Punta Cana 0.60

Sunscape Bavaro Beach 0.69

Riu Palace Paradise Island 0.70

Resorts/ Probability to get poisoning (%)

Cancun/Riviera Maya

Azul Beach 0.20

Barcelo Maya Palace 0.40

Barcelo Maya Beach 0.60

ClubMed Cancun 0.20

Dreams Riviera Cancun 0.50

Dreams Puerto Aventuras 0.40

Dreams Playa Mujeres 0.20

Finest Playa Mujeres 0.10

Grand Palladium Colonial 0.60

Grand Velas Riviera Maya 0.30

Grand Bahia Tulum 0.30

Grand Palladium Playa Mujeres 0.00

Hard Rock RIviera Maya 0.20

Hard Rock Cancun 0.68 Hyatt Ziva Cancun 0.20

Hyatt Zilara Cancun 0.20

Iberostar Paraiso Del Mar 0.50

Iberostar Paraiso Lindo 0.50

Iberostar Paradiso Maya 0.40

Iberostar Paradiso Grand 0.50

Iberostar Tucan 0.40

La Blanc Cancun 0.10

Moon Palace Riviera Cancun 0.50

Paradisus la Esmeralda 0.20

Paradisus la Perla 0.30

Riu Palace Mexico 0.20

Riu Palace Riviera Maya 0.40

Secrets Akumal 0.20

Xcaret Riviera Maya 0.10

Dominican Republic

Barcelo Bavaro Palace Deluxe 0.88

Breathless Punta Cana 0.35

ClubMed Punta Cana 0.98

Grand Bahia La Romana 0.36

Hard Rock Punta Cana 0.39

Hilton La Romana 0.41

Iberostar Bavaro Selection 1.20

Iberostar Bavaro Grand 0.46

Iberostar Haceinda Dominicus 0.45

Iberostar Punta Cana 0.60

Memories Splash Punta Cana 0.59

Paradisus Palma Real 0.40

Paradisus Punta Cana 0.60

Riu Palace Bavaro 0.55

Royalton Punta Cana 0.45

Sunscape Bavaro Beach 0.69

Jamaica

Azul Sensatori Negril 0.05

Beaches Negril 0.03

Beaches Ocho Rios 0.10

Grand Palladium Montego Bay 0.54

Hilton Rose Hall Suites 0.10

Hyatt Ziva Montego Bay 0.10

Hyatt Zilara Montego Bay 0.09

Iberostar Rose Hall Suites 0.27

Iberostar Rose Hall Grand 0.17

Royalton Negril 0.37

Royalton White Sands 0.13

Riu Ocho Rios 0.41

Riu Palace Tropical 0.25

Aruba

Barcelo Aruba 0.19

Riu Palace Aruba 0.34

Riu Palace Antillas Aruba 0.15

Tamarjin 0.17

Costa Rica

Dreams La Mareas Costa Rica 0.24

Riu Guanacaste 0.41

Riu Palace Costa Rica 0.57

Westin Costa Rica 0.13

St Lucia

Royalton St. Lucia 0.35

Bahamas

Riu Palace Paradise Island 0.70

Melia Bahamas 0.25

Turks and Caicos

Beaches Turks and Caicos 0.37

Florida

ClubMed Sandpiper Bay 0.14