THOSE who say “getting there is half the fun”
weren’t travelling on this voyage.
Passengers aboard a £48 per person ferry
journey between Tyneside in the UK to
Amsterdam were delayed by bad weather
and rough seas to the point where they were
only able to spend six minutes in Amsterdam
before having to start the trip home.
What should have been an overnight trip
turned into a 30-hour ordeal as the ship
arrived 13 hours late at its Dutch destination.
After their six-minute holiday, passengers
were then bused to the Hook of Holland for
the return trip via Harwich in Essex, which
arrived back in the UK on Monday morning.
“We spent about six minutes in the ferry
terminal car park in Amsterdam before they
took us onto coaches,” one passenger said.
Citing safety as its number one concern, the
cruise company offered everyone the chance
to take the trip again at a time convenient to
them, hopefully with a longer layover.
