Trivia

The film was originally intended to star Bill Murray and John Cleese. In the end, their roles were filled by Robin Williams and Peter O'Toole respectively.

The movie was inspired by a disastrous Club Med vacation that two of the film's four story writers, friends Chris Miller and David Standish, had experienced together, this in turned formed the basis for this picture's original screenplay around 1980 which had the title of "Club Sandwich".

Harold Ramis replaced John Landis as director.

The director and many of the main cast were alumni from SCTV (1976). These included actors Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Joe Flaherty, Robin Duke, director Harold Ramis and writer Brian Doyle-Murray.

Final cinema film of actor Adolph Caesar who died about four months before the movie opened.

Anne Ramis: The wife of the film's director Harold Ramis as a Travel Agent.

Brian Doyle-Murray: The actor-writer brother of Bill Murray as Voit Zerbe.