ferry<\/a> and make a trip of it … We planned to stay with two friends on our return drive. <\/p>\n\u201cThis has come on the back of my husband having cancer treatment last year and eight weeks of waiting for my stepfather to die.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe arrived home on Thursday after his funeral saying how much we needed this trip away.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Bluebridge’s Cook Strait ferry Connemara carries up to 500 passengers and has dog-friendly cabins for overnight sailings.<\/p>\n
The woman said she had already dropped her four animals off at kennels when the sailing was cancelled.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur only option now is to fly at twice the ferry cost, hire a car and pay for extra accommodation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur whole trip will have to be shortened and cost so much more. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the little details in our trip that we were looking forward to. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe economic impact of this is far-reaching.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another passenger was facing having to cancel a family trip. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe were supposed to be going camping for two weeks in Totaranui,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut as far as I can tell, there aren\u2019t any more car spots on either Bluebridge or the Interislander in that time.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Bluebridge Cook Strait ferry Connemara loading vehicles at its terminal on Waterloo Quay, Wellington. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n
The man was supposed to sail on Sunday and received a cancellation email just after 9pm on Friday. <\/p>\n
\u201cDue to a technical issue onboard your 8.15am sailing has been cancelled,\u201d it stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re really sorry that we\u2019ve had to cancel this sailing, and we understand that this will be disruptive to your travel plans, so we\u2019re letting you know as early as possible.<\/p>\n
“The quickest and easiest way to reschedule your sailing is online.”<\/p>\n
The email also offered a full refund and included a link for passengers to complete a form. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll do our best to give you the refund within ten working days,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you for your understanding, and we apologise again for the disruption to your travel plans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"StraitNZ spokesmann Will Dady said the company was \u201cextremely disappointed to have experienced a mechanical issue during peak…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[806,135010,3246,20703,28721,4194,47117,3597,2072,76,2845,31737,111,43,139,69,27217,84772,135011,1957,17093,26887,1516,14042,12507,1961,61,4767,4576],"class_list":["post-226007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-as","tag-bluebridge","tag-both","tag-cancelled","tag-cancels","tag-cook","tag-ferry","tag-fix","tag-holidaymakers","tag-issue","tag-leaving","tag-mechanical","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ramp","tag-ramps","tag-sailings","tag-scramble","tag-ship","tag-sides","tag-staff","tag-strait","tag-stranded","tag-this","tag-to","tag-weekend","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}