2023-11-24 16:49:33
Passengers who were going to embark on a three-year trip around the world had a very unpleasant surprise when they learned a few days before boarding that their cruise was canceled, following having sometimes sold all their belongings to afford a place on the boat.
The trip of a lifetime has turned into a nightmare of a lifetime for these people who have been waiting for several days for the departure of the Life at Sea Cruises ship which will ultimately never arrive, CNN reported Friday.
After having already postponed the start of the cruise three times, the company finally admitted on November 17 that the trip was canceled since it no longer had a ship.
The cruise was originally scheduled to depart from Istanbul, Turkey, on November 1. She was finally pushed back to November 11 and then November 30 and was scheduled to set sail from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
However, some passengers – who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a cabin on the boat – are still in Istanbul, for lack of somewhere else to go.
Indeed, some people would have sold or rented their house in preparation for the trip and would have gotten rid of their belongings.
“There are a lot of people who have nowhere to go, and some need their refund to plan somewhere to go – that’s not good right now,” one passenger told the US media.
A delayed refund
Customers also risk waiting several months before seeing the hundreds of thousands of dollars invested.
The company said it would make monthly repayments starting in mid-December before ending at the end of February.
Accommodation costs will be covered until December 1st and return flights from Istanbul are also reimbursed by the company.
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