A group of passengers are demanding answers from P&O cruises after being struck down with vomiting and diarrhoea. The holidaymakers fell ill after boarding the luxury cruise ship MV Ventura and around 200 passengers were confined to their cabins. Nurse Jessica Bird, 27, and her gran Cynthia Davies, 86, had paid for a 10-day cruise that would include stops in Santander and Lisbon.
They boarded the ship at Southampton on April 20 but six days later Jessica started suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea. She alerted staff to her concerns for her gran, who had mobility problems, who was moved to a different cabin. Jessica's condition quickly deteriorated and she was quarantined and attached to a drip.
The ship's doctor also hooked her up to an ECG monitor for her heart at Jessica complained of chest pains. She remained ill for the remainder of the trip and was forced to take three days off work when she returned home to Rotherham. Meanwhile Cynthia started feeling ill the day after she returned to her home in Sheffield.
Jessica and Cynthia are among a group of passengers seeking to take legal action against P&O cruises. They say that other than 'sneeze guards', they did not notice any proper guards in place to protect food. They also claim there was no increase in cleaning until after an announcement of illness was made onboard.
Jessica said: "This was meant to be such a special trip for our family and I can't believe it turned out the way it did. "Nan's been struggling with her m.