Queen Mary 2 (QM2) Review
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Queen Mary is their largest flag ship. It is huge. The atrium is spectacular. The public rooms are many and vast. They have a Theatre, a Planitarium, Casino, Library, lounges, bars, Champagne Bars, Coffee bars etc. You can stand in the corridor outside your room and look all the way down the corridor to the other end of the ship. There are banks of lifts all the way along the ship and they are colour co-ordinated which helps in finding your way around. There are laundry rooms on every other deck but you must take your own washing liquid. Irons, ironing boards and kettles are not provided in any of the rooms. The plugs are mostly UK & US. The hairdryer we had was one of those awful wall mounted jobs. Fairly useless if you have a lot of hair!
Stateroom: We booked Queens Grill Q5 and put our son in an inside cabin. BIG Mistake!!! There is no way they will allow grades to mix. Fortunately though we were offered an upgrade from Q5 to Q1 at a very reasonable price so our son moved in with us and all was well. The room was absolutely fantastic. Two floor of pure luxury. Downstairs was a huge lounge, shower room and kitchen. Upstairs a very large bedroom with a fully fitted bathroom on one side and a fully fitted shower room on the other each with their own dressing rooms. Why would you want to get off in New York!!
Queen Grill Restaurant: Absolutely fabulous. Why eat anywhere else when you have food of this standard. The service was 1st class. Nothing to complain about. They would cook you anything you wanted. The portions were just right, not too large and very well cooked and presented. We were on the next table to family with a gentleman using a mobility scooter. I thought it very rude that every time his assistants came to move him from his chair to the scooter everyone stopped and stared. It wasn't till i met up with a friend while we were waiting to go into the Captains cocktail party that she told me that President Bush Snr was on board. Can't miss him, she said=, he's zipping around on his scooter. With that we were all asked to move over and along came the very man. I then recognised him as the gentleman next to us! Charming man, lovely friends and family.
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Queens Suite
We were in the Balmoral suite which is on decks 9 & 10 at the very back of the ship on the side not in the middle. The terrace was HUGE but overlooked from the Queens terrace above. There's a hot tub on the Queens terrace which could be noisy at night with people using it which they shouldn't have been at that time of night. it was directly over our bedroom. Our butler Peter was wonderful and very helpful. The room was always spotless and tidy. We had a treadmill in our room so I didn't have to go up to the gym, great! We had a dressing room each and a bathroom and a shower room upstairs. Downstairs was a enormous lounge / dining room with a kitchen and another shower room. We were a bit worried about being on the very back but it was fine. The only thing we heard was the engines slowing for the Pilot approaching New York. We really didn't want to get off. We'd never be able to afford that suite again. It was offered as a very reasonable upgrade at the last minute. It was originally for President Bush but because it's on 2 floors it wasn't suitable and he was given a suite at the front. We were very lucky.