Fire on Australian cruise ship

[CruiseCriticAUeditor]

Evergreen Tours, an offshoot of Scenic, will delay the launch of its next ship (in April) due to a fire in the shipyard. Anyone booked on it?

 

http://www.cruisecritic.com.au/news/news.cfm?ID=6790

Edited February 1, 2016 by CruiseCriticAUeditor

[MicCanberra]

Bummer for anyone who would was booked on it and has had the cruise cancelled.

[GUT2407]

Not good news.

[The_Big_M]

I presume this is a European river cruiser?

[Docker123]

Might want to amend the thread title to refer to it being under construction.

 

Currently sounds like the Bonfire of the Seas floating around the Barrier Reef, or some such.

[OzKiwiJJ]

Agreed. Just because the company that's it's being built for has a subsidiary company in Australia doesn't make it an Australian cruise ship.

Edited February 2, 2016 by OzKiwiJJ

[Beanb41]

When I saw the headline I immediately had a flashback when I was a young sailor on HMNZS Waikato when we had major a fire onboard. It was a frightening and very unpleasant experience

[MicCanberra]

Evergreen suffering another set back is not good news, they are already having a class action against them for a series of cruises (that didn't happen) a few years ago.:(

[broberts]

I presume this is a European river cruiser?

 

Indeed.

 

For those with bookings, http://www.evergreentours.com.au/emeraldbelle/ may offer some additional information.

[The_Big_M]

Might want to amend the thread title to refer to it being under construction.

 

Currently sounds like the Bonfire of the Seas floating around the Barrier Reef, or some such.

 

Haha, exactly what came to mind.

 

Thanks broberts for the details.

[NSWP]

One of my pet hates, 'River Boats' being called 'Cruise Ships.' Remotely different in design and operation.

[NSWP]

Bummer for anyone who would was booked on it and has had the cruise cancelled.

Evergreen do a lot of charters of river boats, Mic. They will just go and do that.

 

Yes, they have had some bad publicity, they are not the only River Boat Operators who have had such publicity either, not saying Evergreen are a shonky mob, but there are a few out there.

[MicCanberra]

Evergreen do a lot of charters of river boats, Mic. They will just go and do that.

 

Yes, they have had some bad publicity, they are not the only River Boat Operators who have had such publicity either, not saying Evergreen are a shonky mob, but there are a few out there.

 

Yes, the class action came about as instead of cancelling a few cruises and refunding the money, they put people onto buses and tried to complete the tour and had them stay in some fairly bad hotels along the way.:(

[NSWP]

Yes, the class action came about as instead of cancelling a few cruises and refunding the money, they put people onto buses and tried to complete the tour and had them stay in some fairly bad hotels along the way.:(

And blamed the river levels Mic, as they do.

[MicCanberra]

And blamed the river levels Mic, as they do.

Exactly, it was a case where they didn't get anything like what they paid for.

[The_Big_M]

Exactly, it was a case where they didn't get anything like what they paid for.

 

If it's the situation from a couple of years ago, there was no way they could get those through due to the floods.

 

It then comes down to whether you want to miss everything entirely having come all that way. Not much you can do about the weather, just like on a cruise ship that can't visit a port because of the storm.

 

The other alternative is just visiting a few ports where the cruiser can dock; not so appealing either.

[MicCanberra]

If it's the situation from a couple of years ago, there was no way they could get those through due to the floods.

 

It then comes down to whether you want to miss everything entirely having come all that way. Not much you can do about the weather, just like on a cruise ship that can't visit a port because of the storm.

 

The other alternative is just visiting a few ports where the cruiser can dock; not so appealing either.

 

Their argument is that they didn't stay on the cruise boat but didn't stay in suitable accommodation, food quality was poor, they spent a lot of time in sub standard buses and missed a lot of the sites and towns they were to visit. They wanted to cancel but couldn't even though the company broke their cruise contract.