Cruise liner stranded in Belfast for months dubbed 'SS Clusterf**k' by frustrated passengers

A stranded in for months has been dubbed "SS Clusterf**K by furious passengers after toilets stopped working on the beleaguered ship.

Passengers onfinally set sail following a chaotic four-month delay. However, some admitted in the early days they considered leaving the for good due to the smell of sewage "wafting through the corridors."

Another confessed due to the problems with the plumbing and toilets being unable to flush it felt like a “Third-World situation”. In a post on the platform, passenger Joe Rhodes, who had been writing about his doomed experiences on board the ship, admitted the water broke on the first night they set off from Ireland.

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Although it was fixed later the day, hot water did not return to the passengers until their second day in Bilbao. He wrote: "Most Residents didn't realise this — the shutdown happening in the middle of the night — until AFTER they'd made deposits, so to speak. Yep, we awakened to the faint smell of s**t marinating in a hundred unflushed bowls, wafting through the corridors, gently mixing with the ocean breeze."

He earlier admitted in the post that the trip hadn't exactly gone to plan, adding: “Nothing about this trip, except for the fact that I’ve been drunk a great deal of the time, has gone like it was supposed to go. Every single thing, from the food to the furnishings, the TV channels to the swimming pools (neither of which are yet operational), has turned out to be something less than advertised.

“Not on a catastrophic level – there weren’t any corpses in the cabins or anything, at least not on my deck – but it’s all been somewhat disappointing, somewhat shoddier and somewhat less functional than the brochures led us to believe. Have I mentioned that the beer sucks?”

The cruise had been set to depart Belfast in May for a three-year, round-the-world cruise but was faced with a number of issues. Despite this, earlier this month, passengers finally set sail from Northern Ireland but less than 12 hours later it remained in Belfast Lough as the vessel had to complete administrative paperwork.

However, due to the additional repair works, the 125 passengers have been forced to booze cruises and sightseeing tours in Northern Ireland. Villa Vie Residences’ Odyssey cruise ship had promised passengers a luxury around-the-world voyage, stopping at 425 ports in 147 countries across three and a half years.

The luxury cruise offers rentals from 35 to 120 days, or villas can be purchased ranging from £90,000 to £260,000. Owning a villa on board guarantees the room for a minimum of 15 years, but the ownership stays valid for the entire operation of the ship.