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Cunard Queen Mary 2 (QM2) Cruise Reviews for Family Cruises to the Transatlantic from Hamburg

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Lots of Problems; Will We be Back?

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tv24
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

We have always said that we love the crossings and love the QM2. Indeed we have crossed the Atlantic about 13 times on the QM2. But the serious issues with this crossing make us wonder if we are making a poor choice and whether we will ever return. We did love the Chart Room and spent many hours there listening to delightful music and receiving excellent service. But hours spent in one bar ...
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Sail Date: June 2022

Cabin Type: Princess Suite


Extremely dissatisfied!

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guayames
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

This was our third Queen Mary 2 cruise and our 145 total cruise. After our first QM2 crossing my wife and I were determined not to repeat using it. However wanted to go for 6 weeks to Germany and Cnard was th3 only one taken us to Germany and back to New York with 6 weeks in Europe. We took the QM2 to Hamburg in September, again with reservations. Well, what a surprise, the staff, the ...
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Sail Date: August 2019

Cabin Type: Oceanview


QM2 Excellent - Except Food in MDR and Buffet

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ABoatNerd
10+ Cruises • Age 20s

Our trip started in Hamburg, Germany on June 21, 2019, stopped in Southampton for the day on June 24 and onwards to New York arriving June 30. The trip had 2 very different vibes: The Hamburg to Southampton segment had many more families with "free range kids", noise, heavy patronage of the buffet, garbage on the floors, noise at night, kids running and knocking on doors, kids running free ...
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Sail Date: June 2019

Cabin Type: Balcony, sheltered


A Classic Crossing on a Classic Oceanliner

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The-Inside-Cabin
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

We had a wonderful time on our recent voyage on the Queen Mary 2. For a more detailed daily description please see the Cunard Forum for our daily reports titled “Join Pete and Judy on their FIRST crossing on the Queen Mary 2”. We are experienced travelers and cruisers in our 60’s with most of our cruise time on Holland America and Princess, with a few cruises on Celebrity, NCL, RCI and ...
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Sail Date: August 2016

Cabin Type: Oceanview


QM2 finished nice refurbishment, but boarding at new Steinwerder terminal awful.

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wilburu
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

The QM2 has just finished a 25 day refurbishing in Hamburg dry dock . The QM2 now has 30 suites added on the top deck. There are also 15 more cabins (I believe geared for solo cruisers. 6 on deck two where the passenger photo gallery used to be. And 9 where the back half of the casino had been. I was surprised to see that the port terminal facility had been moved from Haven City (near ...
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Sail Date: June 2016

Cabin Type: Standard Inside


Pretty Re-Mastered Ocean Liner with Issues

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tv24
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

We were on the post-remastering cruise for the QM2, boarding in Hamburg immediately after the dry dock. We love the QM2 and love the experience of transatlantic crossings. This was our 20th cruise and our 6th time on Cunard. Re-Mastered Ocean Liner: The re-mastering was largely a success. The cabins have a more modern and subdued color scheme. New carpets throughout the ship, most with ...
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Sail Date: June 2016

Cabin Type: Princess Suite


Offering Transatlantic Crossings Throughout the Year

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Pappaleadfoot
10+ Cruises • Age 80s

Chose this cruise because they cancelled the earlier Victoria sailing and we wanted to cruise back to the states just having completed a Costa cruise. We were celebrating our 60th Anniversary/and 80th birthdays. Because there was a lapse in time between Costa and joining QM2 we drove to Italy and "killed time" there before joining the Hamburg departure. QM2 had just completed being remastered ...
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Sail Date: June 2016

Cabin Type: Balcony, sheltered

Traveled with disabled person


Reborn Queen sparkles – but has some teething pains

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BlueRiband
10+ Cruises • Age 20s

Conventional cruising wisdom recommends avoiding any sailing right after a major refit for good reasons: work is still ongoing and the crew members have been off their service routines for a few weeks. These issues were evident on the first post-refit transatlantic sailing on QM2 Hamburg – Southampton – New York. But these “teething pains” will be worked out and overall Cunard has made huge ...
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Sail Date: June 2016

Cabin Type: Princess Suite


Motley Mix Of The Ecstatic And The Unexpected

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DoraBenley
2-5 Cruises • Age 30s

Motley Mix Of The Ecstatic And The Unexpected: This was Queen Mary 2’s and Cunard’s big cruise of 2015, it’s 175th anniversary cruise. We embarked at Hamburg and sailed to New York. But the 175th anniversary cruise was technically supposed to start at the first port of call after Southampton, Liverpool, and continue first to Halifax, Nova Scotia and then to Boston before finally ending up in ...
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Sail Date: June 2015

Cabin Type: Balcony, sheltered


We enjoyed any minute and simply loved it!

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moinmoin
First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

We really lived the perfect dream of our life! We had big hopes (not even expectations) on our dream - and also fears. Hopes as we fulfilled a dream of our life and you want to have it perfect then and fears as we thought that a) the average age is very high and b) that we might be bored. Actually there we even younger couples than us (48+50) and also families with kids and teenagers. So this ...
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Sail Date: June 2015

Cabin Type: Balcony


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