Eight-hour ferry ordeal leaves passengers frustrated aboard Galleons Passage

Stephon Nicholas

Pas­sen­gers aboard the Galleons Pas­sage en­dured a night­mare sail­ing to To­ba­go yes­ter­day as the ves­sel took over eight hours to reach its des­ti­na­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the fer­ry de­part­ed Port of Spain around 3pm, but be­gan ex­pe­ri­enc­ing some dif­fi­cul­ties mid-jour­ney.

The du­ra­tion of the sail­ing, which typ­i­cal­ly lasts ap­prox­i­mate­ly four and a half hours, was dou­bled, frus­trat­ing pas­sen­gers aboard.

There were al­so com­plaints that the cafe­te­ria had even­tu­al­ly closed, leav­ing those aboard un­able to get re­fresh­ments.

Their woes were re­port­ed­ly com­pound­ed up­on ar­riv­ing at the Port of Scar­bor­ough as the ves­sel was un­able to dock for a sig­nif­i­cant pe­ri­od.

Pas­sen­gers post­ing on­line about their plight said they were still on the ves­sel close to mid­night.

Fol­low Guardian Me­dia for more up­dates on this de­vel­op­ing sto­ry.