Jill and Jay Campbell, a South Carolina couple stranded on the island, described to CNN the hours of distress passengers spent on Sao Tome and Principe.
The eight cruise passengers who were stranded in Sao Tome and Principe, an African island nation, were able to return to the Norwegian cruise ship six days later, the report said. Interested in trade.
According to the same source, citing a statement by Norwegian Cruise Lines, the eight passengers were able to return to the flight on Tuesday, after the first attempt to board on Monday, at a port in Banjul, the capital of Gambia, which was unsuccessful due to “bad weather conditions” that did not allow For the ship to dock safely.
According to Norwegian Cruise Line, passengers were on the island “alone or on a private tour” and ended up missing the last boat back to the ship, missing their boarding time and ending up stranded on Sao Tome and Prince.
Initially, according to CNN, the company said passengers were responsible for the costs of getting to the nearest port of call and reboarding the ship, but now, according to Business Insider, Danish Cruise Line says it will reimburse them for the trip. To Senegal.
Jill and Jay Campbell, a couple from South Carolina who were stranded on Sao Tome and Principe, described to CNN the hours of distress experienced by passengers on the island. According to the couple's report, the passengers included a number of elderly people, a paraplegic, a pregnant woman, and another who had not taken heart medication for five days.
According to the couple, most of the passengers did not have credit cards accepted in Sao Tome and Principe, so they spent thousands of dollars from their Visa card on accommodation and essential goods for the group.
The couple also said that another passenger, who had gone on a different flight, had a medical emergency and was taken to hospital in Sao Tome, also stranded. The couple was able to contact the passenger's daughter in California to help coordinate her return to North America.
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