Debauched acts filmed on Napa party boat
SCANDINAVIAN tour operators have been scrambling to distance themselves from a notorious Ayia Napa booze cruise after a top-selling Norwegian newspaper yesterday published a series of shocking lewd photographs.
The pictures taken only last week and published in VG newspaper show what appear to be mass sexual orgies, with half naked tourists engaged in a variety of sexual acts, some using fruits, vegetables and even dairy products.
The shocking new revelations come just three years after local police investigated claims that British and Scandinavian tourists were involved in organised sex romps during night cruises off the coast of Ayia Napa.
At the time, police said they witnessed multiple “obscene sex acts that go beyond every conceivable limit, about 50 to 100 people involved in acts of total debauchery.”
Yesterday, two undercover Norwegian journalists told how they took cameras and recording equipment on a party boat and after paying €50, were informed by a grinning crew member that they would not be disappointed and would “get something”.
Journalist Mads Andersen told the Sunday Mail that he was stunned by the blatant sales pitch as he and his photographer turned up to buy tickets.
“Don’t worry guys he said, you will get laid on this trip and he said it was not possible to not get ‘wasted’ on board,” Anderson said.
Anderson added that the party organiser boasted that after the outrages of 2004 and 2006, he felt it was time for their unique brand of entertainment to return to Ayia Napa.
“There were a lot of articles in British and Scandinavian press. We had to lie low for a while. But now we are back,” he added.
The organiser also boasted of his best night in 2004: “The wildest I have been involved in, was in 2004. When the cruise ended with a massive orgy on deck. There were at least 100 pieces up there, and all had sex with everyone,” he smiled.
Several pages filled with full-colour pictures from the so-called sex cruise, have now been plastered across newspapers and internet sites in Norway and Sweden.
One young Swedish tourist described how he was shocked by what he had seen on the cruise and vowed never to return.
“All the girls were wearing skirts and they had to sit on a chair and got whipped cream between their thighs and crotch,” he said, adding that the boys would then have to remove it in a sexually-explicit manner.
He said then the girls got the task of getting the boys aroused as fast as possible. “And this they had to do in front of everybody”.
The latest embarrassing revelations also claim that the boat provides six cabins for ‘private use’, almost akin to a floating brothel: “A boy linked with two girls then disappeared into one of the six cabins below deck,” VG reported.
It’s now thought Ayia Napa police will again launch an investigation to discover whether obscenity laws are being broken and travel companies have lined up to condemn the cruise.
“We have seen the consequences of these cruises and we strongly oppose them. On several of our destinations, especially in Ayia Napa, we try to warn our people against this type of events,” Elisabeth Larsen-Vonstett from tour operator StarTour said yesterday.
“We do not have any form of cooperation with companies that offer this type of activities. It is not appropriate for us to make arrangements with sellers of such products. If someone purchases tickets for this type of party, they do it on their own, not through us,” said Marie-Anne Zachrisson the sales director of Wing Travel.
Ayia Napa municipality is anxious that its image as a family tourist destination is not tarnished by stories of wild orgies and has tried hard in recent years to wipe clean its former seedy image.
After a series of negative headlines in the Scandinavian press, Johan Lantz from the Cyprus Tourism Organisation has told reporters that the boozy raucous image Ayia Napa is misleading.
“A very small percentage of tourists travelling to Ayia Napa will take part in these cruises. The media gives the impression that only young people go, it is not so. Ayia Napa is a place for both families with children and youngsters. The cruises are isolated incidents.
“We often feel that we are hindered when it comes to these events. As long as the operators remain within the statutory limits and do not get caught for something, the local authorities cannot do anything about it,” he said.
