After sailing back to back across the Atlantic on Queen Mary 2 in 2014, I simply had to book a voyage on the remastered Queen Mary 2. The remastering of Cunard’s flagship had got me really excited. Once she entered dry dock I found myself on a daily basis systematically working through the Cunard Facebook groups, Various Cruise forums, Twitter and Instagram in search of a sneaky picture or two from the camera phone of a contractor, very sad I know.

So on the night before I sailed I felt like a little boy on Christmas Eve again, struggling to get to sleep with the excitement of boarding this remastered Ocean liner in the morning. I’d seen ALL of the pictures, they looked stunning and it was going to be amazing. Why was I more excited about this particular voyage than normal, after all it was only 4 nights and the only destination was Hamburg, a great city but one that shares the same inclement weather patterns as my home town? Well there is something about Mary.

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