What's she like? (QM2)

[Hank Hargrove]

Yes (28 nights in an outside fwd cabin on Deck 6)  - and you will enjoy it!
Specially as it won't have a restricted view, and you will always see the sea!
Balconies sometimes are a blessing well-disguised, because often on TAs the conditions are such that you can't use them!
Enjoy the ship - she is wonderful!
Lots for you to read about her on here too - including reports from our worldie / 110 nights in 2011
We were inside in a small cabin, this mattered not a jot to us!
We are 'outside' people on ships - I spent hours just over your cabin 6025 on Deck 7

About a TA - very much the same as QE2 in many respects - usually very interesting Speakers, (possibly Dr Stephen Payne even - QM2's Architect,  and you will probably have RADA Actors on board, they are well worth going to see, and Every day is a Sea day - offering a huge amount to do - or nothing! Just don't waste a minute...the time will fly by.
Rosie

Thank you very much Rosie! We also found out that my parents are in a sheltered balcony, so it seems like a good deal!

[Hank Hargrove]

Okay. I got back from QM2 and it was amazing. The service was amazing. The ship was amazing, and the library and pools were amazing. We will go again. My parents were even won over. I had only two complaints. The first was that I wasn't as excited as I thought I was going to be. I was still excited, but I think it was because the ship was so modern and I have a soft spot for older liners. The second was that part of the promenade deck and the art gallery at the back smelled like sewage, however as the art gallery is only the indoor promenade to get you to the Queens room, and you can avoid that part of the promenade deck, it wasn't bad. The QM2 is still in my top five. I'm amazed the service has declined. If that is what the service is like now, then I can't imagine how amazing the service was on the QE2. I wish I could have experienced her. I also got to meet the famous film star Kim Novak (from Hitchcock's movie Vertigo) who was a guest speaker. I wasn't too fond of the buffet as it was confusing and like a stampede, however I am beginning to think that it is a mistake for Cunard to remove it in the upcoming refit. It's also the only place on the ship to get tea at 1:00 am. It's some of the best iced tea I've ever tasted. We only got to stay in London for two days and didn't get to explore anywhere else in the UK, but I can't complain. I do wish I could have seen France ( I did see France across the channel around 4:00 am as we approached Southampton), Germany, and the SS Rotterdam in the Netherlands, but that will happen next time I go.

[Rob Lightbody]

Okay. I got back from QM2 and it was amazing. The service was amazing. The ship was amazing, and the library and pools were amazing. We will go again. My parents were even won over. My only complaint was that I wasn't as excited as I thought I was going to be. I was still excited, but I think it was because the ship was so modern and I have a soft spot for older liners. The QM2 is still in my top five. I'm amazed the service has declined. If that is what the service is like now, then I can't imagine how amazing the service was on the QE2. I wish I could have experienced her. I also got to meet the famous film star Kim Novak (from Hitchcock's movie Vertigo) who was a guest speaker. I wasn't too fond of the buffet as it was confusing and like a stampede, however I am beginning to think that it is a mistake for Cunard to remove it in the upcoming refit. It's also the only place on the ship to get tea at 1:00 am. It's some of the best iced tea I've ever tasted. We only got to stay in London for two days and didn't get to explore anywhere else in the UK, but I can't complain. I do wish I could have seen France ( I did see France across the channel around 4:00 am as we approached Southampton), Germany, and the SS Rotterdam in the Netherlands, but that will happen next time I go.

Glad you've enjoyed it Hank!

They're not removing the buffet, they're re-doing and improving it.

[Hank Hargrove]

Glad you've enjoyed it Hank!

They're not removing the buffet, they're re-doing and improving it.

Oh. Thank goodness. And thank you!

[Adam Hodson]

Okay. I got back from QM2 and it was amazing. The service was amazing. The ship was amazing, and the library and pools were amazing. We will go again. My parents were even won over. I had only two complaints. The first was that I wasn't as excited as I thought I was going to be. I was still excited, but I think it was because the ship was so modern and I have a soft spot for older liners. The second was that part of the promenade deck and the art gallery at the back smelled like sewage, however as the art gallery is only the indoor promenade to get you to the Queens room, and you can avoid that part of the promenade deck, it wasn't bad. The QM2 is still in my top five. I'm amazed the service has declined. If that is what the service is like now, then I can't imagine how amazing the service was on the QE2. I wish I could have experienced her. I also got to meet the famous film star Kim Novak (from Hitchcock's movie Vertigo) who was a guest speaker. I wasn't too fond of the buffet as it was confusing and like a stampede, however I am beginning to think that it is a mistake for Cunard to remove it in the upcoming refit. It's also the only place on the ship to get tea at 1:00 am. It's some of the best iced tea I've ever tasted. We only got to stay in London for two days and didn't get to explore anywhere else in the UK, but I can't complain. I do wish I could have seen France ( I did see France across the channel around 4:00 am as we approached Southampton), Germany, and the SS Rotterdam in the Netherlands, but that will happen next time I go.

Great to see you enjpyed it. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. 

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

This seems to convey some of the atmosphere of an Atlantic crossing on QM2 :

To be continued, it says...

[Twynkle]

This seems to convey some of the atmosphere of an Atlantic crossing on QM2 :
....To be continued, it says...

Hope so!
Yes Isabelle, just a tiny fragment! Thank you so much for a great find!

(There are so many more areas of the ship that could do with coverage - like standing on the foredeck, with the wind nearly flattening everyone, like looking up from there to see the guys on the Bridge waving, like the Library, like the up and down ride on the glass lifts, inside and out, like the choir in the Grand Lobby, like the Galley Visit, like Todd English yummy food, like the two alleyways, one with games / jigsaws and other with swiveling chairs for reading, like the bits both behind and beneath the Bridge / like the computer rooms... etc etc
It looked like a really good promo video, and possibly by guys who were using the sun beds from the Grills deck 9?!
Hoping there'll be another soon - I'm still missing the Might of Mary!)

[Twynkle]

RAW FOOTAGE of Queen Mary 2 in Stormy Weather!

Thanks to Long Long Honeymoon

[Peter Mugridge]

Nice - which deck(s) are the cabins at 2:00, 3:10 and 3:40 that allow the view of the washing machine effect?

[Twynkle]

Nice - which deck(s) are the cabins at 2:00, 3:10 and 3:40 that allow the view of the washing machine effect?

Hi Peter,
I am pretty certain that all the footage that you refer to is taken on Deck 2, first from the casino, then from the alleyways with the games tables / twirly chairs and the Golden Lion pub. Curiously, there didn't seem to be any shots from the big rectangular windows in the Britannia Restaurant on Deck 2 - we used to love watching the sea whizz by on similar occasions!
The other places where it is very impressive to watch high seas being broken by the bow are from the Library on Deck 8, and the Commodore Club, and best of all perhaps - the external 'elevators' - and if you are exceptionally fortunate, from the Bridge windows 
The cabin in the first part of the video is on deck 8, and the broken rail is on Deck 7 fwd.
Rosie

[Peter Mugridge]

Thanks - if I did ever book QM2 I'd be wanting one of the outside cabins in the hull, though, not a balcony one higher up...  I know there's a few...

[Twynkle]

Thanks - if I did ever book QM2 I'd be wanting one of the outside cabins in the hull, though, not a balcony one higher up...  I know there's a few...

There are! We were in 6052 for the lovely, long St Lawrence trip, (or thereabouts, it was directly under the C of Cunard on the superstructure) - great cabin with big window. The cabins much further forward are used by speakers, entertainers etc - and by comparison, they are fairly basic as well as being on the receiving end of the odd bump - noise of the waves in big seas!  Peter, you'd love QM2 - in many respects she is grand, however as far as friendliness goes - QV is The ship for the warmest atmosphere of all - she really has managed to adopt many of the goodness that QE2 gave us!
(btw - we've never had a balcony, not just for economical reasons - also because for much of the time in northern waters, they have to remain 'off-limits', due to 'inclement' weather. We did have one in the Med once - I left doors open to be closer to the sea, with curtains shoved in to stop them shutting - woke up by dripping, and our steward unhappy as A/C had gone on strike! Never again. On QV earlier this year, I got permission to sleep out on the open decks, as well as a the odd quizzical look!)

[Hank Hargrove]

There are! We were in 6052 for the lovely, long St Lawrence trip, (or thereabouts, it was directly under the C of Cunard on the superstructure) - great cabin with big window. The cabins much further forward are used by speakers, entertainers etc - and by comparison, they are fairly basic as well as being on the receiving end of the odd bump - noise of the waves in big seas!  Peter, you'd love QM2 - in many respects she is grand, however as far as friendliness goes - QV is The ship for the warmest atmosphere of all - she really has managed to adopt many of the goodness that QE2 gave us!
(btw - we've never had a balcony, not just for economical reasons - also because for much of the time in northern waters, they have to remain 'off-limits', due to 'inclement' weather. We did have one in the Med once - I left doors open to be closer to the sea, with curtains shoved in to stop them shutting - woke up by dripping, and our steward unhappy as A/C had gone on strike! Never again. On QV earlier this year, I got permission to sleep out on the open decks, as well as a the odd quizzical look!)

I had one of the bow cabins too. 6025.

[Hank Hargrove]

On QV earlier this year, I got permission to sleep out on the open decks, as well as a the odd quizzical look!)

How fun!

[Hank Hargrove]

Peter, you'd love QM2 - in many respects she is grand, however as far as friendliness goes - QV is The ship for the warmest atmosphere of all - she really has managed to adopt many of the goodness that QE2 gave us!

I love the QM2 very much. I have yet to try QV.