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Worst vacation ever: Mom cries as kids sail away onboard cruise ship

A couple who took a Caribbean cruise with their kids learned a lesson they’ll never forget last week, that ended with the cruise ship leaving port with their kids on board and the parents in shambles on the pier.

Scott Thomas was on the ‘Norwegian Breakaway’ and caught the incident, from April 21, on video.

The footage shows the mother on her knees, waving her arms and pleading for the ship to stop after missing the departure time. Passengers on the ship could be heard talking amongst themselves expressing shock and disbelief.

“I told you they’d do that,” Thomas says in the video. “When they say 5:30, it’s 5:30. Not 5:31, not 5:32. 5:30.”

Norwegian Cruise Line told The Daily Mail that the mother missed the departure time and the cruise ship waited an additional 30 minutes for the parents, breaking protocol in the process.

“When she had still not returned and following consultation with the family, it was decided that the husband would disembark with their travel documents to wait for his wife while the children would stay with their uncle and his family on the ship for the remainder of the voyage,” they told The Daily Mail.

“The company offered travel and lodging assistance to the couple and arrangements were made for them to reunite with the ship.”

The 4,000+ passenger Norwegian Breakaway was in the middle of a seven-night trip when it all happened and was making its way back to New York.

The couple had at least two kids on board — a boy believed to be around nine and a girl believed to be around 12.

Since going viral, the Internet hasn’t been kind to the couple.

In a YouTube comment posted to Thomas’ video, one woman said, “That is one very big lesson for one very selfish mother, arrogant enough to think she can hold up a whole cruise liner. ”

In another video posted by Jaron Frieden, one man said “How do I stop laughing I really can’t stop laughing [sic] ]]>😀😀😀🤓🤓