Visitors booked on the three-day Festive Market Getaway cruise onboard Ambassador Cruise Line’s Atmosphere, which was as a consequence of depart London Tilbury on Sunday, December 18, didn’t get the cruise they hoped for.
After friends had launched into the vessel and lots of had been having fun with their first dinner onboard, the ship’s administration introduced that each one friends had been required to disembark once more. Whereas conducting upkeep, a difficulty with the lifeboat station onboard Atmosphere was recognized, stopping the vessel from crusing.
Visitors Requested to Depart Cruise Ship Because of Challenge with Lifeboat Station
For a three-day Festive Market Getaway cruise, friends launched into Ambassador Cruise Line’s Atmosphere in Tilbury within the UK, yesterday, December 18. Nonetheless, solely hours after embarking, friends had been requested to go away the ship once more earlier than 09:30 AM at the moment whereas having fun with their first dinner onboard.
Whereas conducting repeatedly scheduled upkeep to one of many lifeboat stations, onboard employees found a difficulty that rendered the vessel unable to set sail.
In a press release, Ambassador Cruise Line acknowledged the next on December 18: “We will this night verify that we have now reluctantly taken the choice to cancel our three-day Festive Market Getaway cruise, which was as a consequence of depart London Tilbury at the moment, Sunday 18th December. Following annual upkeep works performed, a difficulty with the lifeboat station on board Atmosphere was recognized.”
The cruise line continued by stating that the difficulty was of such a nature that it might not be capable to full the restore and post-repair check in time to function the cruise efficiently.
“It’s by no means a straightforward choice to cancel any itinerary, notably presently of yr, and we want to apologize to all these friends who had been as a consequence of sail with us at the moment.”
Ambiance Underway to Germany
Though engineers onboard have tried to appropriate the difficulty with the lifeboat station whereas in port in Tilbury, the work must be achieved in a extra appropriate location. Subsequently, Ambassador Cruise Line introduced at the moment, December 19, that Atmosphere would head to Germany for repairs.
Atmosphere has left London Tilbury this afternoon to go to Bremerhaven, the place the work and exams can be accomplished. Regrettably, this is not going to be concluded in time to function the Christmas & New Yr Canary Islands Cruise, which was as a consequence of sail on Wednesday, December 21.
What this implies for friends booked onboard this voyage remains to be being decided. Ambassador Cruise Line is at present engaged on contacting friends. Based on on-line stories, any attainable refunds or cruise credit will come all the way down to a full refund + 25% low cost on a brand new reserving or elevate and shift with a 50% low cost.
Ambassador Cruise Line asks friends to attend earlier than contacting the cruise line and/or journey advisors: “We’ll e mail all friends this afternoon to additional clarify and talk this. We might advise all friends on this crusing to please wait to obtain this communication earlier than contacting both us instantly or your journey agent. We will solely apologize for any upset and inconvenience this announcement will trigger our valued friends.”
MV Atmosphere is the previous Regal Princess that sailed for Princess Cruises between 1991 and 2007. Between 2007 and 2020, the 70,285 gross-tons cruise ship sailed for P&O Australia as Pacific Daybreak.
In 2020, the vessel was bought by Ocean Builders Central and rebranded as Satoshi. This firm deliberate to transform the ship right into a floating bitcoin residence, however their efforts had been unsuccessful.
In 2021, the ship was regarded as scrapped however was later resold to Ambassador Cruise Line, which has operated the vessel with blended success.
