Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info A world cruise liner that was stranded in Belfast for months has been labelled as "SS Clusterf**K by furious passengers after toilets stopped working on the beleaguered ship.
Passengers on Villa Vie Odyssey finally set sail following a chaotic four-month delay. However, some admitted in the early days they considered leaving the ship for good due to the smell of "sewage" by irate passengers after the toilets on the beleaguered ship stopped functioning, the Mirror reports. However, some confessed that they contemplated abandoning the ship permanently due to the stench of sewage "wafting through the corridors .
" Another passenger admitted that due to the issues with the plumbing and the inability to flush the toilets, it felt like a "third-world situation". In a post on the Substack platform, passenger Joe Rhodes , who had been documenting his unfortunate experiences on board the ship, revealed that the water supply failed on the first night they departed from Ireland. Although it was repaired later in the day, hot water was not restored to the passengers until their second day in Bilbao , Spain.
He wrote: "Most Residents didn't realise this - the shutdown happening in the middle of the night - until AFTER they'd made deposits, so to speak. Yep, we awakened to the faint smell of s**t marinating in a hundred unflushed bowls, wafting throu.