Furious passengers are staging a hunger strike aboard a luxury cruise ship after an engine malfunction derailed their voyage to Antarctica. The SH Diana — a “boutique five-star “vessel that was only completed last year — was en route to the South ...

Cruise passengers on Swan Hellenic’s Diana vessel go on hunger strike over lack of full refund and cruise cancellation.

The cruise from South Africa to Argentina was due to stop in Antarctica for three days, but the stopover was canceled due to an engine problem.

It feels rather surreal so deep in the South Atlantic Ocean on the aft deck of Swan Hellenic’s ocean vessel, Diana, watching grey-headed albatrosses swoop and dive as I enjoy a coffee, that our voyage suddenly garnered international attention.

LUXURY cruise passengers have gone on hunger strike after engine failure wrecked their dream polar voyage. Passengers on the SH Diana protested when tour firm Swan Hellenic refused a full refund

Passengers on an Antarctic cruise have staged a hunger strike after the ship’s engine failed, forcing the expedition to be cut short. SH Diana, operated by cruise company Swan Hellenic, left Cape Town on 13 November for a 21-day voyage to the southern region.

The luxury trip aboard the Swan Hellenic's SH Diana was supposed to be the cruise of a lifetime for the 170 passengers but their dreams of seeing one of the remotest corners of the world were crushed

Cruise passengers are never hungry, but when they go on a hunger strike, it may be different. A Hunger strike by Russian cruise passengers, and more radical measurements by Chinese passengers is the unhappy outcome for a group of Russian and Chinese toourists that booked an SH Diana Liner cruise from Capetown,

Swan Hellenic's CEO said: "A select few chose to stage a hunger strike in their protest which is rather counterproductive."