Passengers paid U.S. $ 5 thousand per clone MSC Sinfonia cruise ticket
A group of 96 passengers were denied boarding on the cruise for the trip to Argentina in Rio vessel MSC Sinfonia.
Each paid about US $ 5000, to the travel agent in Porto Rio who, according to the passengers, had the credentials of MSC Cruises. But in time of boarding, they found that their names were not on the list.
Apparently the Porto Rio agent sold the same four numbered tickets to one hundred people, and MSC Sinfonia said was not liable for the sale.
Twenty people were registered complaints at estelionato in the 12th SD (Copacabana) where agency headquartered.
The ship MSC Sinfonia was the same cruise where, 464 passengers fell ill Thursday after eating spoiled food, according to media report the MSC organized the cruise on which the university student Isabela stifled Negrato died in December, and also yesterday, elderly woman, Gaucho Clony Resende, 74, died aboard the MSC Musica. The company’s press advisor said she had a cardiac arrest.
The vessel is owned by MSC Cruises, a division of the Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Co.