A vegetarian holidaymaker pressured to isolate alone in a dingy lodge in Tenerife after contracting Covid on a £9,000 household cruise claims she’s been left ravenous after virtually each meal got here with meat.
Backyard centre proprietor Yvonne Harnett, 56, from Inventory in Essex has been left alone within the squalid ‘jail’ after her husband was instructed he could not keep together with her however needed to return residence and go away her behind.
Yvonne and husband Shane, 52, had booked the 2 week cruise across the Canary Islands over Christmas and New 12 months with their 17-year-old daughter Ellie-J.
They launched into 21 December and had been having fun with the top-of-the-range journey – regardless of being cautious once they heard Covid had been detected aboard ship.
Passengers had been requested to take common lateral movement checks and all three had been fantastic till 2 January when Yvonne was given a constructive take a look at however her husband and daughter continued to be unfavorable.
She then needed to isolate in her cabin for 3 days whereas the cruise ship headed again to Tenerife the place she was transferred to a quarantine lodge.
Backyard centre proprietor Yvonne Harnett (pictured), 56, from Inventory in Essex has been left alone within the squalid ‘jail’ in Tenerife, Spain, after her husband was instructed he could not keep together with her however needed to return residence and go away her behind
Ms Harnett stated she continues to be served bacon (pictured) regardless of telling the lodge she is vegetarian
Ms Harnett requested for simply potatoes and greens however the meal nonetheless arrived with rooster (pictured)
Happier occasions: Yvonne (pictured proper) and husband Shane, 52, had booked the 2 week cruise across the Canary Islands over Christmas and New 12 months with their 17-year-old daughter Ellie-J
Yvonne stated: ‘Shane needed to come back with me to the lodge as he knew I used to be terrified. I’ve by no means been alone overseas earlier than.
‘However they would not let him. They insisted I needed to go in alone.
‘They took me off the boat like I had the plague. I used to be wrapped in blue fabric and brought on an ambulance pushed at excessive pace.
‘Then they simply dumped me with all my stuff on this darkish, dingy room.
‘It is like a jail. It has been completely depressing. I’ve hardly slept and barely eaten. I instructed them time and again that I do not eat meat however they do not appear to register it.
‘I spent ages on the cellphone going by the lunch choices and stated ‘please simply give me the potatoes and greens’ however when it got here it had a rooster breast on it.
‘The identical occurs with breakfast once they drape bacon on all the things or lunch once I can not seem to get cheese with out ham. The meals is horrible and even the stuff I can eat is slop.
‘Thank goodness my daughter pressured me to obtain Netflix on my cellphone so I’ve had one thing to do. I have been watching outdated movies like Grease, Ghost and Soiled Dancing and having a very good cry.’
She added: ‘It was meant to be a final household deal with forward of Ellie-J doing her A’ranges and hopefully going off to school nevertheless it’s changed into the worst vacation ever.’
Mrs Harnett ought to lastly be launched from the lodge on Sunday when she is going to lastly have the ability to fly residence to her household.
Her insurance coverage firm has agreed to cowl the price of her lodge quarantine and the brand new flight.
Mrs Harnett’s husband Shane stated he’s ‘livid’ over what she has been by (pictured collectively left)
Mrs Harnett needs to be launched from the lodge on Sunday when she is going to lastly have the ability to fly residence to her household (Pictured: Among the meals despatched to her room)
Mrs Harnett needed to isolate in her cabin for 3 days whereas the cruise ship headed again to Tenerife the place she was transferred to a quarantine lodge (Pictured: Pringles, sweets and water in Mrs Harnett’s lodge quarantine room)
Husband Shane is livid on the method she’s been handled: ‘Once we had been on the boat I examined unfavorable, and Yvonne was constructive, however they made me isolate together with her – regardless that we pleaded with them that it meant our daughter was unaccompanied for 3 days
‘Then after we had plans for her to get residence safely and me to stick with Yvonne they would not let me try this both. They instructed me I may keep on however not in the identical lodge and if I did not need to try this to go residence. And that was pointless as I could not be together with her. So she’s been left fully alone and actually upset.
‘It has been a shambles. And I do not suppose she’d have caught the virus in any respect if the boat had been higher managed within the first place. I am livid.’
The cruise was a Marella journey run by Tui who’ve been contacted for remark.