A 37-hour odyssey for travelers on the Mega Regina ferry, which left Toulon last Friday and arrived in Porto Torres on Sunday morning at 9.30.
"But the journey - reports a passenger from Sassari - should have lasted eight hours." The route immediately becomes complicated because the Corsica/Sardinia Ferries ship returns to the French dock, after having passed the first roadstead, due to a breakdown. The travelers thus find themselves at the starting point in the morning and that's where the nightmare begins.
"The information was incomplete - the woman reports - and it was not clear what was happening." The shipping company, contacted, replied that the fault that occurred was significant and they were waiting for a replacement part to arrive. "In the meantime - says the young woman - they continued to tell us that they would give us news which however was continually postponed".
The passengers, according to the witness, would have been allowed to get off the ship between 10am and 12pm. «Afterwards we were no longer allowed. And when we saw another ship arriving, we asked to disembark to take it and we were denied because they had to do a technical check." According to Sardinia Ferries, however, you could stay out until 4pm. Meanwhile, the inconveniences are increasing, with people unleashing their nervousness and others finding their holidays ruined , like a couple who were supposed to baptize a little girl in a town in the province of Sassari. on a Saturday and couldn't do it.
«I then saw two 85-year-olds from Olbia placed on a bunk bed. One of the two hurt herself climbing up and slept cramped in the cot with her sister. All this without being able to find her another accommodation." Time is ticking: «They endlessly postponed this technical check which they then did at 9pm on Saturday evening with us inside, which we found dangerous». Finally departure at 10.30pm and arrival the next day with 29 hours delay. "An alienating experience - adds the Sassari native - we felt almost kidnapped."
“They also gave us free lunch and dinner,” concludes the traveler. But at that point it was little consolation.
