A couple have told how their £4500 honeymoon was ruined after travel company Tui cancelled their two-week cruise just five days into their holiday. Dot Sayer and Iain Marr were aboard the Marella Discovery 2 cruise liner when they got a note under the door to tell them the holiday was ending a week early.
The couple, from Corstorphine in Edinburgh, had booked the £4498 trip in June with Marella Cruises, which is run by travel giant TUI, to celebrate their July 2020 wedding. They boarded the vessel on January 24 at Montego Bay port in Jamaica for a two-week voyage taking in the Cayman Islands, Cuba, Mexico and Jamaica before heading to Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.
But last Sunday – only three stops and five days into the trip – the operator cancelled the rest of the sailing due to a “technical issue” which affected the food and beverage service. They told all passengers they were being sent home because an alternative cruise wasn’t available.
