Disgusting logging craze is causing chaos in holiday hotel swimming pools

HOLIDAYMAKERS are being put at risk of falling ill by a disgusting new trend sweeping sunshine resorts.

In Egypt, tourists have been confined to their rooms and put on drips after becoming seriously unwell at a holiday village in Sharm El-Sheikh.

Their illnesses have been linked to teenage holidaymakers engaging in a sickening new craze that sees them deliberately defecate in hotel pools.

Travel companies have threatened to fine those caught taking part in the vile behaviour.

The craze, referred to as “logging”, is thought to have been inspired by a character in the Inbetweeners 2 film, who does the same thing at a water park.

The Sunday Post has learned a British woman was paid £2,000 in compensation last week after she fell ill while staying at the same resort in Egypt last year.

She said her illness had been caused by people engaging in the horrendous trend.

There have also been cases reported in Spain and the Dominican Republic.

Travel expert Nick Harris of lawyers Simpson Millar, said the number of affected holidaymakers in Egypt over the last few weeks ran into double figures. He said: “The numbers contacting us for advice is increasing which is quite worrying, just before the main holiday season starts.

“Some of them and their families have been very ill with diarrhoea and sickness and in some instances put on drips.

“Guests have complained that the swimming pools have been closed and that there has been a spate of these so-called ‘logging’ incidents.

“They have told us the holiday reps are now recording their frequency. This behaviour is disgusting. By taking part in this abhorrent craze they are exposing innocent holidaymakers to a whole host of potential illness including cryptosporidium and e-coli.”

The five-star Village Red Sea resort is popular with British families. Travel companies First Choice and Thomson, which are both owned by parent company TUI, arrange package deals to the resort.

Just last week, a 46-year-old biochemist was paid £2,000 by TUI after contracting severe diarrhoea, nausea, stomach cramps, fever and fatigue during a break in August 2014.

She claimed the cause of her symptoms was tourists defecating in the pool.

Lawyers argued that since their client had booked her holiday on an all-inclusive basis, there could be no doubt as to the origin of her illness.

James Blower, of Simpson Miller, said: “After we submitted a letter of claim to TUI, the firm made an early settlement offer in an effort to settle the claim as quickly as possible.”

Last year a British mum on holiday in Benalmedena, Spain, contracted a potentially lethal virus after teenagers deliberately soiled the water.

Zara Farrant, 36, was left bed-ridden and warned she could remain ill for up to six months.

Tony Walton, 50, endured a similar experience while holidaying in the Dominican Republic in 2013.

A spokesman for TUI said it was looking into the case in Egypt.