Just in from hours aboard the Queen Mary 2.
I only have a short window here, between events, to talk about the ship. I promise to add more later, once today’s festivities finally have concluded and there’s time to let this sink in. No pun intended.
The ship is gigantic, which, come to think of it, was the name for a sister ship to the Titanic. Again, nothing intended.
Do follow along with this cutaway.
http://www.cruisemates.com/articles/feature/QM2-plan.html
The Queen Mary 2 (I hardly heard a soul refer to her today as anything but HER and Queen Mary 2 – not QM2) is nearly four football fields long. Imagine that. It is nearly twice as long as the Space Needle is tall, should you choose to stand the thing on end. Twice as tall. Imagine walking up and down promenades and passageways and concourses nearly that long. A few times a day. Who needs a well-stocked gym complete with half a basketball court? Who needs five swimming pools? Who needs the workout? You might.
Let’s see, the food outlets (such a tawdry word for such a ship with a pedigree – oh well) include the 1,300-plus seat Britannia Restaurant, the ship’s enormous, three-tiered main dining room. The Princess Grill for passengers in junior suites, the Queens Grill for duplex apartment dwellers (wait 'til you get a load of the apartments later), Todd English restaurant (he’s a hot guy in the food biz), Kings Court for buffet all day, and Golden Lion and Boardwalk Grill for yet more – ye olde hamburgers, hot dogs, steak sandwiches, ribs, sausage, chicken, lamb (your basic meat products).
Then there are the bars. I know there’s a specific number, I just can’t find it at the moment.
And the shops and the theatre and the planetarium/auditorium and the lecture hall, the library and bookstore, the spa – the Canyon Ranch SpaClub http://www.worldshipny.com/index.html, and the entry hallway. It just goes on and on. Sort of like My Heart Will Go On. Who sang that? Wasn’t that about some ship thing?
Gotta run. More later.
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