Queen Mary 2 (QM2) Review
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We sailed the Transatlantic and Autumn Colours cruises on the QM2 between 8th October and 27th October 2013. My wife and I have not sailed with Cunard before, but have sailed with other cruise lines.
When we first boarded we thought we were going to be in for a tough ride as things seemed tired and not of a standard we’d anticipated from the brochures. We stayed in a deck 12 stateroom with an unfortunate interconnecting door, that had to be taped up by the steward, otherwise we might as well have shared the cabin with the couple next door!
We dined in the Britannia Club restaurant and from here on in things got a lot better. The service was exemplary and the meals were wonderful for each of the 19 days we sailed. I cannot praise this enough. We dined in Todd English once, and whilst the menu was also excellent, the light heartedness and genuine service of the Britannia Club won us over. As the weather was generally bright throughout the voyages, lunchtimes were joyous watching the sea and sky from the restaurant windows.
Cabin Review
In the end we came to like the stateroom. The room steward was excellent! The bed was amazingly comfortable, but the room was blighted by the interconnecting door, which meant we shared all the noises with our neighbours. The steward taped the interconnecting door up twice, and used beach towels are noise [draft] excluders to keep the noise down. It was okay in the end. We thought the bathroom was small and missed a bath. Generous balcony though!