A nightmare journey, the one experienced by the well-known infectious disease specialist Matteo Bassetti on the Olbia-Genoa ship , returning from holidays in Sardinia. The professor, well known for his public appearances during the pandemic and repeatedly targeted by no-vaxes (so much so that he was under guard for almost a month), denounced a terrible experience on social media: « Rudeness, delay, filth, relational incapacity, insane prices and a lot of anger for those few Italian companies that are bad for Italy's image », writes Bassetti. «These are the ingredients that I found tonight, with my family, on the Aki ship of the Moby company in service from Olbia to Genoa».
Then the infectious disease specialist proceeds with the story: «Ship scheduled for 21.30, but with a two-hour delay . We embark at 11pm, after taking the cabin (embarrassing), we go up to the à la carte restaurant with the very hungry boys, and we find an iron chain on the door : a waiter tells us that the restaurant is already closed and that, if we had complaints, to contact the Purser on board. So I go to the ship's purser who, very arrogantly, refuses to give me his surname, telling me that his name is Maurizio and that the restaurant is closed because it's 11pm and it closes at that time regardless of when the ship is match . Too bad the ship arrived an hour late and sailed at 11pm.'
Then he continues: « Let's fall back on a pizza by the slice: 71 euros for 9 chewy and greasy slices , unworthy of being called pizza. To describe the cleaning of the cabins and the care of the common areas, I directly took some photos that speak for themselves, also because I have run out of vocabulary. All these amazing and extraordinary services for the modest sum of 1300 euros round trip with car and cabin. Italians travel on the ship, but above all foreigners. Well this evening, as an Italian, I was ashamed. I believe that whoever manages and conducts such a poor service should do the same ».
(Unioneonline/L.Ne.)
