A British holidaymaker has revealed her  “holiday from hell” after claiming she was turned away from three hospitals in Spain whilst suffering from a severe stomach bug because of where she was from. Kay, who regularly posts about her travels as a “military wife” took to TikTok to share her nightmare experience.

The traveller said she was mostly confined to her room at the Marylanza hotel in Tenerife after developing an upset stomach from eating a salad she claimed was “washed with tap water”. Opening up on her grim bout of diarrhoea, Kay said in one viral video that she’d “rather be dragged through a bush backwards” than have to endure a similar experience.

In a TikTok video, on her account @kayholsav, she said: “I arrived on the Friday, had dinner at the hotel, and from then on I cannot physically keep anything in my system. We are now on Sunday, and I still physically cannot keep anything in my system.”

Kay added that she had only been eating veggie options and pizza as she was a Vegetarian at the four-star TUI resort. She also said she had avoided drinking tap water while on her holiday.

The Brit said her illness had become so extreme at one point that she called a doctor to her hotel room, which set her back €100.

She claimed the doctor told her she could be admitted to the hospital in two days if her condition stayed the same. In another video, Kay later claimed she was turned away from three hospitals in Tenerife.

She alleged she was denied being seen because she was English, in a comment saying: “The issue wasn’t just the language barrier they were incredibly dismissive and honestly came across as quite racist. It felt like they just didn’t want to help.

“That’s exactly why we always get private travel insurance now private clinics actually treat you with respect and cater to all nationalities, not just locals. Luckily I ended up at the right hospital.” Kay later showed herself inside the private hospital and she was hooked up to an IV drip and fluids.

Though she admitted her ordeal was the “scariest experience of her life,” Kay went on to make a full recovery, and expressed her gratitude for the ‘amazing’ staff at the hospital.

She said: ‘Bless them – they didn’t understand me, nor did I them, but they did their best.”