{"id":21325,"date":"2013-01-03T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/ferry-scam-leaves-sydney-nye-revellers-high-and-dry-2\/"},"modified":"2013-01-03T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T06:51:00","slug":"ferry-scam-leaves-sydney-nye-revellers-high-and-dry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/01\/ferry-scam-leaves-sydney-nye-revellers-high-and-dry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferry scam leaves Sydney NYE revellers high and dry"},"content":{"rendered":"
source: Travelmole<\/a><\/p>\n

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Police and fair trading officials are expected to probe a phantom New Year’s Eve cruise on Sydney Harbour which left people stranded on the dock.<\/p>\n

Up to 150 people found themselves stranded on a Darling Harbour ferry wharf and AUD450 out of pocket when the boat they had bought tickets for, the MV Eve, failed to show, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.<\/p>\n

Many of those who bought tickets for a champagne cruise that offered a New Year’s Eve experience “like never before” have made formal complaints to the New South Wales Police and NSW Fair Trading.<\/p>\n

Ticket holders were told to meet at King Street Wharf by 6.30pm for a six-hour cruise that was supposed to include views of the Sydney fireworks, DJ and unlimited food and drink.<\/p>\n

By 8.30pm the group realised their planned evening had sunk without a trace.<\/p>\n

Repeated calls were made to the mobile phone and office numbers that Eve Harbour Cruises had supplied, but no one answered.<\/p>\n

When TravelMole called the mobile phone number on the Eve’s website<\/a> – which is still advertising Sydney Harbour cruises – it went through to an automatic answering service.<\/p>\n

The operators of the vessel describe the MV Eve as a “three level boat that has been fully renovated”.<\/p>\n

“The under ground level is the spacious men’s and ladies toilets and powder room. The middle level is the dance floor, DJ box and laser lights, plasma and a very classy bar. The 3rd Level is an open deck area for perfect viewing of Sydney Harbour and relaxation.”<\/p>\n

But not, clearly, on New Years Eve. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

source: Travelmole Police and fair trading officials are expected to probe a phantom New Year’s Eve cruise on Sydney Harbour which left people stranded on the dock. Up to 150 people found themselves stranded on a Darling Harbour ferry wharf and AUD450 out of pocket when the boat they had bought tickets for, the MV […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}