Stateroom 5037 QE2.

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The rabbit warrens of QE2s lower decks are part of the character of the ship.

 

The "creative design" of QE2s lower decks comes from the contradictory objectives of maximising the number of outside cabins and making cabins a sensible shape and layout.

 

QE2 and Canberra (another great ship of the same era) used totally different philosophies. QE2 has lots of skinny long cabins on the lower decks with narrow corridors between where the beds are and where the porthole is. Canberra had far fewer tourist cabins with portholes (even quite a number of inside first class cabins too) but most were square boxes, maximising practical space. Canberra also used clever concepts like "air light" and there is the verandah cabin concepts used on some other ships.

 

The strange shaped cabins is one of the things many of us love about the ship though. More outside cabins also makes a ship more profitable, possibly one of the reasons she is still sailing.