During a family Christmas event on a festive cruise last month, crew members dressed up as ‘snow cones.’ They were dressed in white with inverted show cones over their heads complete with eye holes. According to guests it resembled outfits of the Ku Klux Klan.

A cruise line apologized after staff members dressed like “upside-down snow cones” in pointed white hoods that resembled those worn by Ku Klux Klan members. Footage has emerged of housekeeping crew on the Pacific Explorer voyage from Melbourne to Hobart marching along the deck in all-white uniforms and pointed masks with cut-out eyeholes.