Queen Mary 2 (QM2) Review

Floating old people's home.

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10+ Cruises • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Oct 2018

I was SO bored. I don't fly so this was my only way of getting back from the US but it was deathly dull. The only good thing was how well it copes with rough seas - you would hardly know we were in a storm but it was just so dull, dull, dull. The foreign TV channels were showing blockbuster movies but the English film channel was showing deathly dull art house movies. The lectures were really uninspiring and there is very little to do on the ship unless you're into knitting. The spa is OK but crazily expensive. The internet is a joke. The most expensive I've every experienced on a ship and it kept cutting out and then you can't log out and you're paying a lot of money for nothing. The food is OK but monotonous. It was very, very hard to get served as a single woman. I've found this on ships. I think they are either waiting for your "husband" to join you or they assume you're a nurse travelling with one of the geriatric passengers. I'd watch the waiting staff in Kings Court go round the tables asking if anyone wanted tea or coffee or to order wine, but they always missed out my table and I'd have to get up and go and actually stop one if I wanted to try and order something and then it would take SO long to come that I would have finished eating before it arrived. They destroyed my luggage. I'd been travelling for three months with no problem. It looked like they'd taken a sledge hammer to it. It's such a shame as I'd like to go back to the US but I'll need to find another way to get there as I wouldn't go back on the QM2 if you paid me to go. I think people have found that it is cheaper to hang out on the ship than it is to live in an old people's home. The ship is obviously tailoring the experience for this clientele.

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