Passengers on a £7,000 luxury cruise are going on a hunger strike – this is why

Hundreds of passengers onboard what was meant to beryllium a imagination cruise are present connected a hunger strike.

Thrill seekers paid betwixt £7,000 to £10,000 for a ’boutique travel to Antarctica aboard Swan Hellenic’s SH Diana – but motor nonaccomplishment meant the travel was chopped short.

Now, 170 passengers who missed retired connected the ’boutique five-star experience’ done the Antarctic are connected a hunger onslaught due to the fact that the institution won’t springiness them a afloat refund.

A missive written by the passengers and seen successful The TImes read: ”Some guests are elderly, disabled, and person struggled already to get to this point, lone for the travel to beryllium chopped short.

‘For galore of us, visiting Antarctica is simply a life-long bucket database that we privation to execute earlier decease oregon disability.’

Swan Hellenic has offered a 50% refund oregon a 65% recognition for usage connected aboriginal cruises successful the adjacent 2 years, on with escaped activities successful Argentina, wherever the vessel volition dock for repairs.

The vessel is scheduled to spell backmost towards the Antarctic connected December 3, but passengers are fuming.

A radical of passengers, believed to beryllium Russian, are demanding afloat refunds and going connected a hunger strike.

CEO of Swan Hellenic, Andrea Zito, said: ‘We profoundly regret having to change the itinerary owed to method issues. But we judge our connection is fair.

‘Some passengers person already accepted it and adjacent rebooked aboriginal trips.’

Zito said successful a statement: ‘The archetypal unease has mostly subsided. A prime fewer chose to signifier a hunger onslaught successful their protestation which is of alternatively counterproductive. We are moving towards a swift extremity to this action.’

A 2nd luxury cruise ship was stuck in Belfast for 4 months, yet mounting disconnected connected their travel successful September of this year.

Although keen to embark connected their adventure, galore of the 125 passengers said they had enjoyed their clip successful and astir the city.

Passengers – mostly from North America – either rent their suites for 35 to 120 days oregon bargain them for thing from £90,000 to £260,000.

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