Dead end for ferry passenger

The “weary travellers” referred to in Ronan Gingles’s letter (April 21) were lucky the train met up with their ferry at Rosslare.

Having spent several days trying to shoehorn a house guest onto a ferry (the Tourist Office in Cork had heard only of the Stena line), I finally booked the new Cork-Swansea ferry for her. Yes, she had to sit up all night, but she was grateful to escape.

When the ship docked at 7am, and after inexplicably waiting an hour for all vehicles to disembark first, some 300 foot passengers were greeted with ... nothing. No buses, no taxis and, more importantly, no help from the crew, one of whom mumbled “there were supposed to be three buses”.