A British couple who tested positive for Covid on the last day of their £1,900 trip around the Mediterranean have called for Tui to have tighter controls of the virus on cruises.
Kelly Silverton, 29, and her partner Rob were forced to spend £1,500 - £250 per night - to stay in a quarantine hotel in Malaga, Spain, for seven days.
The couple from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, were six days into their week-long trip when holidaymakers on the boat were asked to take a Covid test while docked in Malaga.
Kelly claims that, along with over 50 others, she and her partner tested positive for the virus so were told to leave the boat and self-isolate.
She watched the Marella Cruises ship 'sail off into the distance' to Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, with the rest of the holidaymakers for the last day of the trip.
The couple then had to pay £158 for a taxi to a quarantine hotel last Wednesday, which Kelly claims used to be a student hostel costing just £20 per night.
Kelly said the food was so unappealing at the quarantine hotel that she paid £125 on Uber Eats orders for the week.
They also paid an extra £200 for return flights back to the UK, meaning in total the couple had to pay £1,983 on top of their original holiday costs due to coronavirus.
Kelly has since criticised Tui for their Covid protocols, alleging that passengers only had to take one lateral flow test before flying to Spain to embark on their cruise.
Kelly Silverton (pictured above), 29, and her partner Rob were forced to spend £1,500 - £250 per night - to stay in a quarantine hotel in Malaga, Spain, for seven days
The couple then had to pay £158 for a taxi to a quarantine hotel (bedroom pictured) last Wednesday, which Kelly claims used to be a student hostel costing just £20 per night
The teacher claims that TUI told customers to take the lateral flow tests but purely relied upon temperature checks to deem passengers as safe.
Speaking today, Kelly said: 'We took PCR tests around 8pm on Wednesday night and it was confirmed at midnight that we were positive.
'We got a call at 11am on Thursday that we were to leave at 2pm and finally at 6pm we got a taxi to the Covid hotel.
'The temperature check was the only safeguard but people had been passing that all week.
'The cruise was £1,853 for the week and we thought it was going to be a nice break. TUI had no protocols and the hotel they used was not fit for
