Passengers can disembark Thurgau Travel ship in Vienna
Published: Tuesday, Sep 17th 2024, 17:42
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The passengers of the Thurgau Travel river cruise ship were able to disembark in Vienna on Tuesday. They had been stranded on the Danube ship since Saturday due to the high water.
Thanks to a special permit from the authorities, the passengers were able to disembark safely at noon at another landing stage in Vienna, Thurgau Travel told the Keystone-SDA news agency.
Thurgau Travel is currently in the process of organizing "the most comfortable and fastest return travel options" to Switzerland. "We will definitely refund the travel price because the trip was not carried out as announced," Daniel Pauli-Kaufmann, CEO of Thurgau Travel, was quoted as saying in a press release on Tuesday.
Due to severe flooding on the Danube, 102 passengers - 99 of them Swiss - and 40 crew members had to remain on board the Swiss river cruise ship "Thurgau Prestige" in Vienna. They have not been able to leave the ship since Saturday, depending on the source, either because the jetty to the pier was flooded or because the Austrian authorities forbade them to disembark.
The "Thurgau Prestige" was supposed to travel from Linz to Budapest and back on Friday and ended up getting stuck in Vienna.
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