Roland787

DaisyUK, My previous comment was merely my opinion of QM2's present state, as compared against my previous 20 or so sailings on her, and what areas I would place attention to during a dry dock period. It was not my intent to worry future passengers. I'm sure that you will have a lovely time aboard QM2! She is still my favorite ship, and I am happy to be onboard till we reach NYC, and I am looking forward to sailing her again over Christmas / New Years, to go to the Caribbean. The crew on QM2 are fantastic, so in the unlikely event you were to find anything out of order with your stateroom, they will quickly get it sorted out for you. This morning, they replaced the broken part in the air condoning unit for my cabin, so no more helicopter noise. I think the pandemic shutdown likely led to most if not all passenger ships becoming behind on some of their day-to-day upkeep and general maintenance. A current table mate of mine recently sailed on the Norwegian Dawn, and she said practically everything on that ship was either broken or in some state of significant disrepair and she was happy to be back onboard QM2.

Being currently onboard QM2 at the time of this posting, they definitely need to prioritize catching up on general repairs and maintenance, before investing in any major alterations to the ship. As someone who loves this ship, it pains me to say that she is currently in the worst state of repair that I have seen the ship in to date. They really need to strip the hull down to bare metal from deck 7 down and fully repair the extensive rust damage around many of the ship's windows. The glass paneled wind walls on the terraced back part of the ship have extensive rust damage. Given the age of the ship, the lifts throughout the ship should have their buttons and indicator displays replaced or updated, and some of the banged up and deeply scratched lift doors should be replaced. The steel handrails around deck 7 should have the layers of paint stripped to metal and repainted. They should replace all of the light fixtures in the corridor on deck 9. They are still using compact fluorescent bulbs in these fixtures that have discolored the lamp shades, making most of these shades look terrible, hardly fitting to be outside the doors of some of the ships most expensive suites. They could stand to repair or replace the mechanicals of the individual cabin climate control systems. The blower on the one for my cabin sounds like a helicopter. I think that all of the time that the ship spent in "warm layup" with only a skeleton crew put the ships engineering team in a difficult situation where they are having to play catch up on routine repairs and maintenance which didn't occur during covid.