Building the World's Most Luxurious Cruise Ship

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We did have one called CUNARD but it was taken over by an American company who thought they could do better :confused:

 

It was very fortunate that Carnival Corporation purchased Cunard in 1998, as it was on the point of bankruptcy. Cunard had been mismanaged by successive companies ending with Kvaerner/Trafalgar-House. Even its flagship, QE2, had only been built with massive government subsidy...............and had then not been properly maintained

Carnival Corporation injected the expertise and investment that was required to re-establish the reputation of the Cunard brand

 

 

 

There is a little luxury boutique ship called the Hebridean Princess here in Scotland, UK. It is classed as luxury by Douglas Ward and also listed here on CC.

It predominantly sails around Scotland and the Islands and also around parts of the UK. Of note this little shop was chartered in 2006 by HM the Queen for a private family celebration on her 80th birthday.

 

The Queen had to charter a ship for her birthday as Tony Blair had presided over the decommissioning of the last British Royal Yacht, HMY Britannia

John Prescott, ex ship's steward, egged on by Gordon Brown insisted that Britannia should not be replaced or refurbished as this course of action suited their vindictive brand of socialism

This resulted in the sad loss of a valuable national asset

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Actually, IMO, it seems that if someone started a U.K. luxury cruise line, they would be quite successful (assuming that they would achieve the success that Hapag-Lloyd has achieved with German passengers).

 

 

Probably not a good time to start a new British cruise line:

http://www.cruisecritic.com/news/news.cfm?ID=7443