While getting to know the latest addition to the Cunard fleet, we were hoping that this cruise would give us the insight needed to choose locations for future non-cruise vacations. We found out that we don't like the French Riviera, that Italy was better than we expected and that we'll never go back to the Mediterranean during the summer. We've decided that the Queen Victoria is a great ship. And while it just really isn't fair to compare her with the Queen Mary 2, as they are really different types of ships, we just couldn't stop ourselves. We liked the QV, but much prefer QM2.
We were on the August 1st, 2008 Med cruise sailing from Southampton with the Queen Victoria. We had an A5 balcony cabin on deck 5. Pictures and videos - as well as a daily log - can be found on our website .
Probably the biggest thing we missed on QV versus QM2 was the ability to walk completely around the ship on the outside promenade deck. It may sound silly, but for us that is a substantial design flaw and one of the many reasons we will not cruise on the QV again.