Refunds for wild cruise

Royal Caribbean returns funds after wild ‘burlesque’ party.

Royal Caribbean has refunded passengers who traveled on the cruise lines’s Voyager of the Seas ship last month after passengers complained of a wild partying that took over the ship in Australia, media reports say.

The ship departed from Singapore Sept. 6 for a three-night trip with about 1,300 men who were onboard for a work conference for their Indiabased firm, Kamla Pasand, according to 9 News Australia.

Kamla Pasand produces gutka, which is described as a crushed Areca nut, tobacco, catechu and other substances and said to provide more intensity than chewing or smoking

tobacco, according to SFgate.com.

Passengers reportedly complained that the men had invited burlesque dancers onboard where they partied on deck. Passengers also compared the festivities to a bachelor party and claimed that that men were harassing young female travelers by recording them with their cellphones.

“It was crazy … little Playboy bunny outfits, you know this is a family boat,” one passenger Christine Weyling told the network. “I think that they should have notified us that there was a big group that had been booked and had booked the pool deck out … everyone on that ship should have been notified.”

Because of the alleged revelry, some families on board chose to remain in their cabins.

"Their doors would be open and you would walk past and be like, 'What am I going to be looking at when I walk past this door?'" passenger Cassandra Riini told 9 News.

Miami-based Royal Caribbean International reportedly refunded the passengers for the cruise.

“After a three-night sailing from Singapore on September 6, several guests shared their concerns with us about the behavior of a group of other guests aboard the ship. We were able to quickly provide them with a satisfactory solution to their concerns,’’ said Owen Torres, manager of Global Corporate Communications for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. in a statement to the Sun Sentinel. “Royal Caribbean operates with the safety of our guests and crew as our highest priority. We are continuing to review this incident to ensure that our guest conduct policy is applied appropriately.”

The ship, which has a capacity of more than 3,000 passengers and travels from Australia to the South Pacific, includes stops in New Zealand, Fiji and New Caledonia, according to the cruise line’s website.