Grace Bay Club, a high-end Turks and Caicos Islands resort whose guests included US vice-presidents, world-famous actors singers, novelists and billionaires, has temporarily suspended new reservations because of a mysterious illness that has irritated about a dozen other resorts in this upscale Caribbean tourist destination.

While government and health authorities seek to resolve the nagging health issue and sickened scores of visitors, officials from Grace Bay, this country’s first luxury resort, said they will not take any new reservations until June 1, 2012.

Mark Durliat, Chief Operating Officer, confirmed that some of their hotel guests have complained of diarrhoea and flu-like symptoms that also affected about a dozen other resorts in this country’s tourist belt, Grace Bay, which has won several coveted international awards, including the world’s best beach.