Luxury cruise ship passengers on hunger strike after engine failure wrecks dream polar voyage

LUXURY cruise passengers person gone connected hunger onslaught aft motor nonaccomplishment wrecked their imagination polar voyage.

Passengers connected the SH Diana protested erstwhile circuit steadfast Swan Hellenic refused a afloat refund aft their travel was chopped short.

The 20-night travel near Cape Town, South Africa, 2 weeks agone and was owed to marque stops astatine points adjacent and connected Antarctica.

But the year-old vessel developed a responsibility successful 1 of its eco-friendly hybrid engines, forcing the liner to wantonness the trip.

Passengers who paid from £7,000 to £10,000 were offered a 50 per cent refund oregon a 65 per cent “future cruise credit”.

Most aboard are Russian. There are astir 10 Brits.

A missive by passengers, de­m­anding a afloat refund, reads: “For galore of us, visiting Antarctica is simply a life-long bucket list.

"Some person struggled ­al­ready to get to this point, lone for the travel to beryllium chopped short.”

Swan Hellenic said “a prime few” had gone connected hunger onslaught — but defended its connection arsenic being amended than the ineligible request of a 30 per cent refund.

The wrangling went connected past nighttime arsenic the vessel crawled to Ushuaia, Argentina, for repairs. It should get successful a week.