A mother-of-two says she was forced to hide in her room with her children on a horror cruise filled with drunken louts.

Lauren Musselwhite, 42, from Portsmouth, paid £3,000 for the two-week voyage around the Spanish coast on the MSC Cruises Virtuosa on July 12 with her children George, 17, and Freddie, 14.

But the teacher, who has been on 30 previous cruises and said she had loved them all, claims she was forced to cut short ‘the most appalling holiday’.

The family disembarked in Valencia, five days before the end of the trip, after experiencing constant waves of rowdy drunk youths, persistent swearing and yobbish behaviour.

She claims they did not like the food and children were left largely relying on crepes for over a week, while there was vomit, black soot and what appeared to be mucus in the swimming pools.