martinmct

On the QM2 world voyage at the moment, there was a tour offered earlier in the voyage and another is imminent. $120 USD

‘The best ‘parking spot’ in the world!’ Capt Aseem Hashmi - Monday 26th February.

It was an amazing departure from onboard - thank you so much for posting those shots! Martin

These are screen shots from the internet purchase page on QM2 at the moment… PREMIUM starts at 36 US per 24hrs, ESSENTIAL starts at 24 US per 24hrs. Multiple device discounts as shown. Hope this helps.

@reeves35 sitting on QM2 berthed in your hometown at this very moment doing Soton to Soton and enjoying it immensely! @artvlay For extra reassurance - My wife is an avid diet Coke drinker, on departure from Southampton last month I wheeled 48 cans of the stuff direct to my stateroom without so much as a murmur from anyone. She accepts that it will be drunk in the stateroom/balcony, so a couple of cans are kept in the stateroom fridge at a time. Obviously the supply has run down over the last couple of months so we just top up at various stops with smaller quantities - obviously I’m not carting 48 cans around again!

Hate to say this….Insurance companies will be thinking somewhat differently to this - they will be calling tunes. We are on the QM2 for the WC and very much hope to be doing the journey as advertised - we were looking forward to visiting Vladivostok on QE last summer….. the rest is ongoing sad history. Now back to the packing for Thursday!

We were on QE’s first 2023 visit to Juneau - pretty much identical experience to 3rdGenCunarder - there were an awful lot of frayed tempers amongst fellow passengers. This is my only experience of tendering to date - agreed we’d never tender again. We leave Southampton on 11th Jan for her world cruise, some tendering is scheduled….I’m told it’s quite nice staying on board during port days!!! - hardly the point of a world cruise though!

I’ve just completed payments for QM2 next year, and received confirmation back from Cunard that all is well! I too, experienced difficulties with the website - particularly making payments using my Windows Desktop. All was well when I used my Apple ipad to carry out the transactions. Whilst I acknowledge that not everyone has different hardware access to the internet, this worked for me. It has to be said though, that this solution can be useful with other websites from time to time along with use of different browsers - eg chrome/safari. The technical world is not a perfect one, whatever we may be lead to believe!

@sfred Great to hear you are back aboard again - doesn’t seem long ago that we disembarked in Vancouver - June 20th. Enjoy yourselves…and QE! Martin

‘You need to inform them that you want to claim your benefit, and provide them with: Your legal name Your booking number Your ship and sailing date Proof of your stock ownership You can mail your details to Customer Solutions, 24305 Town Center Drive, Suite 200, Santa Clarita CA 91355. Alternatively, you can fax them to +1-661-753-0180, or you can email them to sb@cunard.com.’ Hope this helps… M

@Mike & Zen recently posted this on the Open dining discussion

….and finally back at Canada Place on Tue 20th June..thanks for your kind words @sfred. Next report will follow on 11th January 2024 from QM2! Martin

Almost over for us for now with QE back in Victoria for our second visit (Mon 19th June). We decided to take the shuttle into town and then walk to Government House to take a look at the gardens. All very worthwhile, and a very nice part of residential Victoria - Rockland. Returned to the ship via the the coast and straight into afternoon tea, which we felt we deserved having walked a few miles! All aboard for 8.30pm in time for the ‘long’ overnight voyage to Vancouver! Always hate seeing bags in the corridor awaiting collection for disembarkation - and I know that others do too - ours have now joined them!

QE has the current timings for her dining as per this photo of the Daily Programme for Monday 19th June - although this is a port day in Victoria, the only variation to a ‘normal’ day being that there is no lunchtime service in the Steakhouse, normally 12.00pm to 1.30pm. Regards, Martin

QE is in Ketchikan today - it has been dry and sunny whilst docked. A large ‘birthday’ cake has been made for the Kings official birthday. The daily Programme proclaims ‘Happy Birthday Your Majesty’. It goes on to say ‘Today His Majesty King Charles III celebrates his Birthday. Cunard is delighted to be able to say that The King attended his first Cunard event in 1968 when he was 20 years old; as young Prince of Wales, he joined Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) as the ship sailed from her birthplace at Clydebank.’ The late Queen Elizabeth II looks calmly on in the Queens Room.