Allergy Not Taken Seriously
Allergy Not Taken Seriously. Poor Support from TUI.
As someone with a life threatening nut allergy, I would warn anyone with food allergies prior to travelling with TUI.
We booked an all inclusive holiday for our honeymoon. We notified the team of my allergy upon booking, again 2days before departure, and on arrival at the hotel whilst checking in. We also checked the online system, where we had 3 separate notes stating this.
To cut a long story short, my life was endangered several times during our stay. Once when food containing nuts wasn’t labelled as such (luckily I queried whether the honeycomb pieces were actually nuts before eating it), once when I was told an item was “safe to eat” when it was physically touching another item that was visibly covered in nuts, and again on arrival when there were pastries left in the room for us but no allergen information. When we called reception to check, no one could tell us if the pastries contained nuts or not and said they would get back to us but never did.
Our TUI Blue rep advised us that “if it looks like it has nuts in, just don’t eat it.”
We explained that it is not as simple as something looking like it has nuts in, it might also have nuts inside or traces in the ingredients, cross-contamination, etc.
The next official piece of advice was to just not eat then, which left me in tears with over half of our holiday still to go.
My husband pushed repeatedly until the hotel staff were kind enough to arrange for the head chef to make me a meal a day when he was available. To be clear, this was only one meal towards the end of each day and due to the severity of my allergy, my partner was limited in the same way as me.
So for the majority of our holiday, we were unable to use the snack bars, have breakfast, lunch or snacks. We only had dinner every day and the rep was unfortunately incredibly unsupportive, stating that if I have an allergy I shouldn’t have gone on holiday. She also informed us that this incorrect allergen labelling had happened before with those exact food items and when I asked why nothing had been done about it, she shrugged. To not act on it is shocking and no warning was given about this potentially being an issue at any point.
When we arrived home, we complained. The team originally sent us a generic response apologising that the food was not to my “taste preferences”, so I replied asking for someone to actually read what we had written as this was regarding an allergy not a preference.
We later received an offer of a £300 holiday voucher, which of course we feel unlikely to use. Instead they offered £200 compensation, for myself only, despite my husband also having been unable to eat due to the risk it would put me in. This feels incredibly poor considering we have paid thousands of pounds for a holiday and service we didn’t receive, for all-inclusive meals we couldn’t eat, and for this to have been our honeymoon as well is so upsetting.
Gave 2 stars instead of 1 because the flights and experiences booked ran smoothly and the hotel itself looked gorgeous.
This was meant to be a 5 Star TUI Blue holiday. Turned out to be the most upsetting honeymoon and aftercare we could imagine.
30 september 2025
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