safety and illness We found the hotel/restaurant to be very clean on the whole, though on the first day we noticed that the water cooler in the restaurant was very dirty and this was where everyone was re-filling their bottles from. Once we mentioned it, this was replaced with a completely new cooler, but I did wonder how it had been allowed to get to that state in the first place. We didn't have any tummy troubles to begin with, though we only drank water/soft drinks, kept hydrated and didn't over-do the sun. The Grotto bar did look a bit dingy, but we drank from here all week and were fine. We dined at the Sofitel on Friday, and on Saturday our daughter felt unwell, with headache, diarrhoea and chills. The lovely rep from the Taba Salt Caves, Remy, got her some special herbs which the staff at Mariott then made up for her in a tea with honey and citrus and she felt fine the next day. Unfortunately, I began to feel ill the day after, which was the day we were due to fly home - I was violently ill all night long and was worried I wouldn't be able to fly home! My husband was ill on the day that we returned home, and we were then both ill for a fortnight after returning. We met other guests from our hotel, and also some from other hotels in different resorts, who were also ill with the same