Seventeen passengers who became ill while on a two-week cruise ship holiday aboard the Thompson Spirit are claiming that the ship harbored unsanitary conditions causing their illnesses. They have hired a legal firm to seek redress from Britain’s Thompson Cruises.

All of the passengers contracted norovirus and they believe that Thompson should have done something about the ship’s poor hygiene.

The group’s legal representative, Suki Chhokar, said “We are very concerned about the reports of widespread illness and hygiene complaints on board. It certainly sounds like more could and should have been done to reduce the risk of passengers becoming ill. We have invited Thomson to admit liability and hope that they will do so quickly and work with us to fairly compensate our clients. If not, legal proceedings are likely to be commenced.”

Thompson Cruise claims that they tried to do everything they could to alleviate the onboard situation and they are denying liability at this point. Their position is that the outbreak of the norovirus was not caused by unhealthy conditions on the ship.

Allegedly there were more than a hundred passengers that got sick. Some of victims became so violently ill that they couldn’t leave their rooms for three entire days.

A travel watchdog group, Holiday Travel Watch, has come forward to say that there have been complaints about the Thompson Spirit before this one.

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