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But wasn't QM2 was put in the dry dock last year for maintenance? Or is this the case that maintenance has to be done on the ship year round even when she is not in the dry dock?

Would you consider the November 13,2024 QM2 Caribbean Cruise. Maybe it is less expensive than the January, 2025 Caribbean Cruise. There is also the QM2 Christmas Caribbean Cruise but it is more expensive than the November cruise because of the Christmas/New Years holiday.

It is a good thing that Cunard is keeping the Queen Victoria in mint condition. I hope that Cunard is doing the same thing with the QM2, Queen Elizabeth & Queen Anne

Thanks for your response and I'm happy that things seem to have gone back to normal.

Is the Senior Officer's Party also have the Captain of the Queen Victoria attending this party? Since I will be aboard the QM2 on November 20th of this year, I hope to see that things are back to normal before Covid 19. Also are the behind the scenes ship board tours that cost $120 being offered aboard the Queen Victoria for this cruise? When I was last aboard the QM2 in October,2022 I was told that there would be no behind the scenes ship board tours on this crossing but they maybe will be offered again in the future.

I have to and want to drive to Philadelphia to take a few pictures of the SS United States before she is towed away on September 12th to become an underwater artificial reef. If there is anyone interested in making this trip the SS United States is at Pier 82 on the Delaware River on the Philadelphia waterfront

I equally like both QM2 transatlantic crossings & QM2 cruises and have done both. My next QM2 voyage is the November 20th of this year 13 night Caribbean cruise. What I like best about this QM2 cruise is that after the QM2 sails out of NY on November 20th, there are then 3 days at sea until the QM2 arrives to the first Caribbean island on this itinerary on November 24th and there are 6 Caribbean islands the QM2 visits from November 24th through to November 29th. Then there are 3 more days at sea for the sailing back to NY and the QM2 arrives back in NY on December 3rd. So that there are altogether 6 days at sea and I really like sea days. And at some or maybe all 6 Caribbean islands there will be other Cruise Ship visiting on the same day and us QM2 passengers can say to the passengers of the other Cruise Ships that our ship the QM2 is the best looking ship in port and that the QM2 is a real Ocean Liner. Some Cruise Ships not all to be honest are ugly looking.

Well if that is the case I guess that if it is not printed I will just buy something else. And I have only been on 3 Cunard Ships the retired since 2008 QE2 and the QM2. The last time I was aboard the QE2 was in January 2006 and after I got off the QE2 in Los Angeles I did spend the night aboard the first Cunard Queen the Queen Mary in Long Beach. It has been only the QM2 since then. I have not ever been aboard the 2 other Cunard Ships before Queen Anne because I would have to fly to Europe to board the other Cunard Ships and I don't care for airline travel. Since I live in Northern New Jersey, I can drive to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal from my house in Northern New Jersey in about an hour if there is no traffic. The QM2 is a beautiful Ocean Liner.

Speaking of Cunard branded merchandise and since I'll be aboard the QM2 on November 20th of this year, are they selling any posters aboard the Cunard Ships with the Queen Anne on them? I have two posters that I bought aboard the QM2, one has a picture of the QM2 in the middle with the current Queen Elizabeth on one side with the Queen Victoria on the other side. The other poster is titled Cunard Queens that has all the 3 current & 3 previous Cunard Queens on it. Are they selling any posters with the Queen Anne added to what would now be the 4 current Cunard Queens and 3 previous Cunard Queens poster or the Queen Anne added to the poster that has the QM2, QV and QE on it?

My attire on QM2's Red & Gold Gala Night during the November 20,2024 Caribbean cruise will be a double breasted black suit, white shirt, red neck tie and black shoes

As a little kid living in New Jersey as I do today, though in the 1960s I was living in West New York,N.J. across the Hudson River from Midtown Manhattan where there was a park overlooking the Hudson River where there was a view of the Passenger ship piers. I remember seeing one of the Italian Line ships either the Michaelangelo or the Raffaello docked there more than once and maybe also the 1st Queen Elisabeth. I also remember seeing the SS United States docked at the same piers and also the Holland America Line ship Rotterdam of 1959 docked in Hoboken,NJ once. My parents moved us out of West New York,NJ to where we live now in Northvale,NJ in 1972 when I was 12 going on 13. My father was also a longshoreman in which he had to help unload the cargo ships. He did work on the docks on the NJ side of the Hudson River in Weehawken where the United Fruit Company ships docked carrying bananas. Sometimes he did come home with some bananas.

Is that ship the Titanic or is it her sister ship the Olympic?

The NY Cruise Terminal is Piers 88 & 90. Pier 88 is the former French Line pier, Pier 90 used to be the Cunard Line pier and Pier 92 which is longer used is also used to be the Cunard Line pier. The QM2 now docks at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal and I'll be going back aboard the QM2 on November 20th of this year for a 13 night Caribbean cruise. Enjoy your Alaska cruise aboard the Queen Elizabeth.

I was also at the Queen Mary in Long Beach,California in January of 2006. I got to California aboard the QE2 for the QE2's NY to LA via the Panama Canal World Cruise segment. I got off the QE2 in LA and spent the night aboard the Queen Mary. I spent the night in the cabin with the TV on all night well there are stories that the Queen Mary is haunted, Concerning that when the Premier Cruise Line went out of business, I read in a newspaper article that one passenger forced off of one of the Premier Ships is quoted as saying "that last night was Pirate themed night aboard ship and today they're making us walk the plank"

This is the 1st Ship named Sea Breeze that I went aboard in August 1999 for a New England/Canada cruise. It was called the Premier Cruise Line. Premier used old second hand ships in their fleet. Sea Breeze was formerly named Frederico C of the Costa Line built in Italy in 1958. Unfortunately Premier Cruise Line went bankrupt and out of business late in the Summer of 2000. The Sea Breeze sank off the coast of Virginia late in 2000 in a storm. There is reasom to believe that the Sea Breeze was intentionally sunk because the insurance for the ship was worth way much more than the scrap value.

Just last night I did find this book I bought aboard the QM2 in June of 2009 when I did a NY-Southampton-NY round trip transatlantic crossing. It is during this crossing that I did buy this book titled "Bravo Diva of the QE2" It is written by Mary Mastony aka the QE2 Diva and book was about the QE2 Diva aboard the QE2 doing the 2003 World Cruise. On the Special Tributes page she does thank the QE2 Captains Ronald Warwick and Paul Wright, Hotel Manager John Duffy, Cruise Director Trevor Stephenson and Cruise Hostess Elaine MacKay. There is even special tributes to the passengers and one of the passengers she does mention is Beatrice Muller. Mary Mastony was aboard the QM2 for this crossing and she did sign my copy of her book. And when she did sing opera at the passenger talent show aboard the QM2 during this crossing while yes her voice may not been able to carry a tune because she was older and her vocal chords just did not have it anymore, the passengers still respected her act and applauded her at the end of her act. Does anyone know if the Mary Mastony aka the QE2 Diva did any World Cruises aboard the QM2, Queen Victoria or the current Queen Elizabeth after the QE2 was retired in 2008?

I agree with you that Cunard/Carnival Corp. could have kept the QE2 going for at least another 15 to 20 years. Before the sale of the QE2, there were stories of the QE2 going into drydock for more renovations to keep the ship in service beyond 2008.

Roscoe39, Thank you for the link to your magazine article. It was an interesting read. And I hope that Dr. Fred Blanchard enjoys his forever home aboard Queen Victoria. And if there are any other unknown persons living permanently aboard any of the 4 Cunard Queens I wish only best wishes for them also.

Thank You for the information

So I guess it is ok to think that Bea let her status of being the resident of the QE2 go to her head that she thought that she was the Queen of the QE2. Maybe if and when Cunard builds another ship and Cunard can not think of any new names for this new ship, Cunard could name this new ship Queen Bea or actually Queen Beatrice. This suggestion of mine is just a joke but does anyone know if the UK ever had a Queen Beatrice? Remember that I'm just an American who does not know much UK history.

So I guess there is not one washing machine aboard the Aida. LOL

I guess it would be this husband jumping into the pool stark naked. The Cunard Ships are not floating nudist colonies

It looks like Beatrice Muller was such a headache to these ship's carpenters to demand that the furniture to be re-arranged with only 6 months left til the QE2 leaves service.

Aboard the QE2, I did see at the pool located at the QE2's stern there was a husband & wife. The husband then stands up and takes off his clothes and jumps into the pool wearing just a colored brief underwear. How low class can anyone get I remember thinking to myself?

This lady who is aboard Queen Victoria a lot and sometimes QM2, Does she know of the stories of Beatrice Muller and Mary Mastony aka the QE2 Diva?