QM2 and Lighter Fluid

[Sweetpea711423]

Does anyone know if lighter fluid is sold onboard the QM2 at the gift shop or some place like that? I would like to give my husband a lighter I bought as a surprise birthday present while we are onboard for a crossing, but it will need fluid for him to be able to use it.

 

Thanks for any help you can give.

[capnpugwash]

Does anyone know if lighter fluid is sold onboard the QM2 at the gift shop or some place like that? I would like to give my husband a lighter I bought as a surprise birthday present while we are onboard for a crossing, but it will need fluid for him to be able to use it.

 

Thanks for any help you can give.

 

I am fairly sure that it is not sold on board. I suggest that you take some with you, we used to be able to buy the fluid in a rubbery/plastic container that held just enough for one fill and would then be discarded. Don't know if they are still available.

[Sweetpea711423]

I am fairly sure that it is not sold on board. I suggest that you take some with you, we used to be able to buy the fluid in a rubbery/plastic container that held just enough for one fill and would then be discarded. Don't know if they are still available.

 

 

Many thanks for your response. Unfortunately lighter fluid is not permitted to be carried onboard as carryon luggage or as checked luggage on airplanes in the US (We will be flying from the US to London to do a westbound crossing). So I wouldn't be able to do your otherwise very helpful suggestion.

[capnpugwash]

Many thanks for your response. Unfortunately lighter fluid is not permitted to be carried onboard as carryon luggage or as checked luggage on airplanes in the US (We will be flying from the US to London to do a westbound crossing). So I wouldn't be able to do your otherwise very helpful suggestion.

 

I suggest that you buy it from a tobacconist in Southampton or London, you may not be able to get the one shot items but you can certainly get the fuel in a small can.

[Sweetpea711423]

I suggest that you buy it from a tobacconist in Southampton or London, you may not be able to get the one shot items but you can certainly get the fuel in a small can.

 

 

Good idea. May be hard to pull off since he'll be with me and I want it to be a surprise when I present him with the lighter onboard ship, but may be worth a try. Thanks for your suggestion.

[capnpugwash]

Good idea. May be hard to pull off since he'll be with me and I want it to be a surprise when I present him with the lighter onboard ship, but may be worth a try. Thanks for your suggestion.

 

When are you on board?

[Nitty]

Good idea. May be hard to pull off since he'll be with me and I want it to be a surprise when I present him with the lighter onboard ship, but may be worth a try. Thanks for your suggestion.

 

 

Fill it with nail varnish remover. It's only acetone and burns quicker but it works.

Glenn.

[Nitty]

Fill it with nail varnish remover. It's only acetone and burns quicker but it works.

Glenn.

 

Oh, and don't take the lighter home in your pocket. They'll take it off you.

[Sweetpea711423]

Thanks, folks for your help and suggestions. Here's the final solution I came up with:

 

TSA allows lighters with fuel in checked bagged if the lighter is in a TSA approved case. So I bought a case on ebay (around $18), and will fill the lighter before we leave and put it in the checked baggage in the TSA approved case (and put it somewhere my husband won't see it). Now I just have to hope that our luggage doesn't get lost (knock wood)!

 

Thanks again.

[capnpugwash]

That sounds like a good plan.

[garigoun]

Sweetpea, have you any idea how incredibly lucky you are. 9 posts concerning a device for igniting tobacco and not one, not ONE, admonition concerning your dear husband's habit from the ever watchful ranks of the Anti-smoking Popular Front. Must be something of a record. BTW congrats on sorting out a plan so he can have his surprise.

Gari

[capnpugwash]

Sweetpea, have you any idea how incredibly lucky you are. 9 posts concerning a device for igniting tobacco and not one, not ONE, admonition concerning your dear husband's habit from the ever watchful ranks of the Anti-smoking Popular Front. Must be something of a record. BTW congrats on sorting out a plan so he can have his surprise.

Gari

 

Gari, I take your point, smoking is a bad habit but I thought that he might just be an arsonist. It is not as if sweetpea was giving him a pre tied bow tie is it?

[garigoun]

It is not as if sweetpea was giving him a pre tied bow tie is it?

 

Cap'n I have no idea to what you are referring.

 

A Puzzled Gari

[capnpugwash]

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Cap'n I have no idea to what you are referring.

 

A Puzzled Gari

 

I mention it merely as an example of a more serious lapse in standards when compared to smoking. :D

[keithm]

Does anyone know if lighter fluid is sold onboard the QM2 at the gift shop or some place like that? I would like to give my husband a lighter I bought as a surprise birthday present while we are onboard for a crossing, but it will need fluid for him to be able to use it.

 

Thanks for any help you can give.

Personally, I find this to be a rather unusual request. I'd get him a very nice butane lighter. There are some very exclusive ones on the market. Oh yeah, smoking's a bad habit.

[capnpugwash]

Personally, I find this to be a rather unusual request. I'd get him a very nice butane lighter. There are some very exclusive ones on the market. Oh yeah, smoking's a bad habit.

 

Butane lighters have no soul, zippos and their ilk have history, they be old fashioned and slightly smelly but lots of things are, present company excepted.. :eek::eek:

[northernsailor]

I bought a cigar lighter on my last QV voyage - the barman kindly filled it for me from the Commodore club. I assume they probably have the ability to fill whatever lighter you have if you ask nicely :)

 

Chris

[garigoun]

Butane lighters have no soul, zippos and their ilk have history, they be old fashioned and slightly smelly but lots of things are, present company excepted.. :eek::eek:

 

You are so right Cap'n and there is the added bonus of when you

are temporarily cigaretteless a good sniff of the wick is very comforting.

And I remember, in my well-spent youth, practising for hours until I could do that really cool trick of flicking the top open and lighting it at the same time. That really impressed the girls. (Gives you some idea of the type of girl I went out with.) (( I mean of course ... with whom I went out.))

A Zippy Gari

[Norfolk Brit]

with whom I went out.))

A Zippy Gari

 

Surely "out with whom I went":D.

 

Up with this I will not put.

 

Sir Martin

[garigoun]

Surely "out with whom I went":D.

 

Up with this I will not put.

 

Sir Martin

 

Touche (Can't find the accent on this silly Apple keyboard!!)

 

An Ungrammatical Gari

[sociologist]

I have never seen lighter fluid for sale on a Cunard ship. Or chewing gum. Cunard would like to ban smoking everywhere on board due to safety issues. Smoking is only permitted in your cabin, in the upper level of the G32 night club, and at several posted locations on deck. No smoking in the casinos, in the Golden Lion pub or at any bar or lounge. That's due to a continuing trend away from smoking being encouraged anywhere.

[capnpugwash]

Touche (Can't find the accent on this silly Apple keyboard!!)

 

An Ungrammatical Gari

 

This might help

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:)

[Norfolk Brit]

Cunard would like to ban smoking everywhere on board due to safety issues. Smoking is only permitted in your cabin, in the upper level of the G32 night club, and at several posted locations on deck. No smoking in the casinos, in the Golden Lion pub or at any bar or lounge. That's due to a continuing trend away from smoking being encouraged anywhere.

 

One minute it's due to safety issues, the next it's down to "a continuing trend away from smoking being encouraged anywhere". As you are obviously privy to inside knowledge, I think we should be told which it is:D.

 

Oh, and for the benefit of beleagured fellow smokers, it's also permitted in Churchill's and on balconies; rumour has it, though, that it's scheduled to be banned in cabins. Sadly, banning sanctimony is not yet on the agenda.:(

 

Mary