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'Luxury' cruise victims demand money back
By Hila Raz
Tags: Luxury

Passengers of a luxury cruise ship filed a NIS 2.7 million class action suit this week against Caspi Cruise Line in Tel Aviv District court, to recover ticket costs and receive damages for their unpleasant and aborted experience. Of nearly 1,000 passengers who set sail on The Princess of the Caribbean last September in the Mediterranean, 368 claim the ship was anything but the luxury liner advertised by the company. They charge that some of the cabin toilets never worked, causing such a stench that passengers avoided staying in their cabins or even slept out on the deck. On the third day, passengers awoke to a loud explosion, only to discover when they went on deck that the ship was listing to the side. Passengers had to hold onto the railing to walk without falling on certain parts of the deck.

According to the suit, they disembarked at Rhodes later that day, but when they returned a member of the entertainment crew informed them in the name of the captain, the technical problem would be fixed within hours, and that they would be compensated with a free additional cruise. Some time later they were informed the ship would not be sailing that day, and the company would put them up at a hotel. But they soon discovered they were being driven not to a hotel but to the airport, where they had to wait hours for their tickets and passports for the flight to Israel.

The suit claims many passengers returned with stomach aches, diarrhea and headaches.
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"The company is a travel agent only, and as such is not and cannot be responsible for technical problems transpiring on the boat not under its control," said an attorney for Caspi. He countered that "in accordance with the contract, the passengers must file a suit against the owners and operators of the boat."
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