Tourism Minister David Allen said he had been tough on a cruise line over alleged overbooking this season.

Mr. Allen said he was still trying to resolve the situation with Norwegian Cruise Lines over hundreds of extra berths sold on their vessel the Norwegian Majesty .

The 251 berths over the ship's previous 1,500 limit were supposed to be for cruise and stay holidays, but it became evident that they were being sold to regular passengers.

Yesterday, the Minister said he was waiting for a response from NCL from a proposition he had put to them.

He said he had been "hanging pretty tough on it'' but would not say what the deal would comprise.

In addition, the Minister said the whole idea of cruise and stay on the Majesty was to act as an unofficial cap on cruise passenger numbers, after the ship increased its capacity after a refit.

And he re-affirmed that the main cruise and stay vessel, the Crown Dynasty would be remaining at Dockyard next season -- despite complaints at the lack of activities there.

When asked whether the vessel would increase its cruise and stay berths from 100 to 150, as per contract, he said he "would reserve judgment on that''.

The Minister said he was still waiting to hear what the final results were for the innovative holidays, which had only been sold to 151 people by mid-July.