Around 100 cruise passengers onboard the cruise ship when it ran aground in Bermuda last week ended up being fed snacks and sitting on a hotel floor ?like evacuees? after they were misinformed about the departure of the last tender back from Hamilton to their stricken ship.

The latest tale of woe surrounding the events of June 7 has been revealed by an American passenger who was amongst the group of visitors who found themselves ?stranded? for a second time the same day after they had been ferried ashore to spend a curtailed afternoon in Hamilton.

Passengers who had spent the morning stuck on the 34,000 ton cruise ship after she hit a reef on the approach to Dundonald Channel, between Spanish Point and Dockyard, were eventually transported to Hamilton around midday to spend a few rainy hours in the city and told to return to the Front Street docking point no later than 4.30 p.m. that afternoon to catch the last tender back to the cruise ship.

Pennsylvania resident Liza Rudolph said: ?When passengers left the ship that day via the tenders, they were told they needed to catch the 4.30 p.m. tender back to the ship, which only gave passengers about three hours in the city.

?Upon returning to the pick up location passengers learned the last tender had already left at 4.15 p.m., not filled to capacity and stranded over 100 passengers on the Island.?

She said that because passengers had only been expecting to be on the Island for a few hours most were not prepared for a lengthier stay.

?We were not acceptably dressed for dinner, people had their children with them and a number of passengers did not have their medications with them.?

The stranded passengers were told by a Norwegian Cruise Line representative that arrangements had been made to temporarily accommodate them at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess Hotel where they would be given some dinner.

She said: ?When we arrived in the Gazebo Room there was not enough seating for all the ?guests?, and dinner turned out to be pound cake, cookies, water and cola.

?At least half of the passengers were sitting on the floor, as if evacuated.?

Ms Rudolph said a hotel representative said NCL had only informed the hotel an hour earlier to expect 50 people and to provide snacks.

She added: ?The staff at the Fairmont were wonderful and did the best they could to make us comfortable. No representative from NCL arrived until over an hour later.?

When the passengers were finally reunited with the , which had successfully been re-floated at high tide that evening, they were ?tired, hungry, irritated and felt cheated?.

Ms Rudolph concurred with the views of fellow passenger George Sunderland who said in yesterday?s that the cruise ship crew had not given adequate information about the situation to passengers.

Ms Rudolph added: ?It seemed as though they couldn?t treat their passengers like people ? by keeping them informed ? and they were very careful not to admit fault by not admitting anything at all.

?Hopefully, this disaster did not mar people?s perception of Bermuda, as it is a truly wonderful place to visit. This was my second trip to Bermuda and I know I?ll be back again. However, next time I?ll fly.?

A spokeswoman for NCL said in a statement this week that the ship?s officers made regular announcements to passengers during the incident when information was available.

The is currently back in Bermuda and successfully reached Hamilton yesterday without incident as it repeated the journey from St. George?s which ended in the reef collision last Wednesday.

Damage to the reef is being assessed by the Department of Maritime Administration.