Hotel Sick Strikes Again, This Time in Palo Alto

Where: 4290 El Camino Real [map], Palo Alto, CA, United States, 94306

7/03/2008 at 9:30 AM
Tags: Hotel Hell, Palo Alto Hotels, Hotel Sick, Crowne Plaza Hotels

For at least 21 people who visited the Crowne Plaza Cabana hotel, this holiday weekend is going to be extra-special because they now have "a diarrheal illness" to keep them company.

While the exact cause of the illness has yet to be determined, the outbreak seems to have only affected people at the Cabana, so the hotel invited the Health Department over to check things out.

The San Mateo Daily News reports the Cabana is safe for public use again (even though they didn't know what was wrong in the first place) and they're making sure some changes are made:

they've put together a program for the hotel to prevent future incidents, including sanitizing walls, floors, ceilings and bathrooms, Gale said. Employees also will undergo a one- to two-hour food handling course and managers will receive training on how to recognize a contagious employee.

Uhh, we hope you mean they will be re-training employees about all this stuff.