Passengers on the Swiss cruise ship MS Thurgau Prestige can breathe a sigh of relief. The tourists who had been stranded in Vienna since Saturday were finally able to land in Vienna on Tuesday.
Thanks to a special permit, the Swiss river cruise ship was transferred from the flooded pier in Vienna’s Nussdorf to the large Handelskai pier, where passengers were able to safely disembark the ship.
The MS Thurgau Prestige was supposed to dock in Vienna Nussdorf on Saturday by order of the Vienna Shipping Authority. However, passengers and crew were unable to leave the ship because the gangway to the pier was flooded.
But it was not allowed to be boring on board. “In addition to lectures such as ‘The Danube, from the source to the mouth’ to bridge tours with current information from the captain, the activity program such as Thai Chi Quigong Shibashi was also well received,” according to the tour operator Thurgau Travel.
They are now working on “organizing the most comfortable and fastest return options for passengers to Switzerland”. The guests who want to fly will land in Zurich that evening with a specially organized charter flight. “We will definitely refund the travel price because the trip was not carried out as announced”, assured Daniel Pauli-Kaufmann, CEO of Thurgau Travel.
Source: Krone
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