Two California sisters, Carol Larson and Crystal Lavering, are among roughly 203 passengers, mostly Americans, left ashore in Sihanoukville after Villa Vie Residences suspended its residential cruise this week, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Cambodian officials told aggregated coverage cited by NewsCord that the MV Odyssey arrived October 23 with 203 passengers and 156 crew and was meant to sail on to Vietnam, but passengers had only seven hours to pack and disembark before the October 31 planned departure.

Villa Vie said it suspended operations in Cambodia to address "extraordinary increases" in fuel costs and evaluate restructuring over the next 60 days.

While the company says it is coordinating temporary living arrangements, the Los Angeles Times reports many disembarked passengers described receiving little or no help with hotels or flights.

Sharon Lane, 78, now living in Orange County, told NBC LA in an account cited by the Times that friends aboard say the company isn't helping them find accommodation: "You know the phrase giving the bum's rush? That's what it feels like to me."

Passenger blogger Randy Cassingham, quoted by NewsCord, wrote that the company was doing "absolutely nothing to help" and called the end the result of a cascade of problems.

The ship had promoted "a new model of global living at sea," with lifetime suites starting around $230,000 when it set out from Belfast two years ago, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Larson, 69, told the AP, as reported by the Times, that she paid $120,000 in installments plus monthly fees for a promised up-to-15-year home at sea.

Villa Vie said monthly fuel costs per cabin in Asia jumped from about $1,800 to as much as $8,000, and NewsCord cites passengers like Wyoming's Lynn Montoya who said residents were repeatedly asked for extra money before the collapse.

Both the Times and NewsCord describe a company evaluating restructuring and recapitalization alternatives over roughly 60 days while passengers make their own arrangements in Sihanoukville, with the ship's departure date still unclear.

Reactions split between anger and loyalty: Larson told the AP she was "not at all sad" despite the money lost, saying residential cruising could bloom without war-driven oil prices, while Lane told NBC LA she felt both sad and angry.

The episode, per the cited reports, leaves hundreds of residents from the US, Europe and Australia in temporary housing limbo.