Sydney Tells Stranded Rat Cruise To Come On Down And Dock In Circular Quay

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Those on board the marooned MV Hondius have finally received some good news today.

Stranded off the coast of Africa, the Dutch cruise liner has been offered a much welcomed lifeline from down under.

Making global headlines for an outbreak of the rat virus (which sounds as nice as it apparently is), Hondius has been told by NSW authorities to come on down to Sydney and offload their infested cargo.

This comes after the likes of Cape Verde told the Hondius to get fucked, and keep their rat infested customers and crew well away from them.

However, given Sydney's proud history of welcoming ships full of sick people into the heart of its city, the invitation to Hondius was apparently a 'no brainer.'

The city famously allowed mega cruise liner the Ruby Princess to pull up in Circular Quay as the global bat flu drama was kicking into full swing.

The ship let 2700 sniffly passengers off into the city, exploded our case numbers and caused a Royal Commission.

"Yeah, no point trying to isolate these people on board a floating hotel," said a spokesperson for NSW Health.

"Let's get them back amongst society as quickly as possible."

"Come on down to Sydney and we'll have ya."

More to come.