After a wonderful cruise on Jewel across the Atlantic and visits to Brussels, Whitby (UK), York, Nottingham, Peterborough, and Reading we finally arrived in Southampton to board Queen Mary 2 for our return crossing of the Atlantic. We had travelled on QE2 on a number of occasions (the last one being in the 80's) and were very much looking forward to Queen Mary.

We stayed at the DeVere Hotel the night before so we were well rested before the crossing. We returned the car to Enterprise the morning of the trip and they took us to the ship with all of our luggage. After a very uneventful check in procedure we finally got onto the ship at around 12.30 (our scheduled check in time was 2.30 but no one seemed to mind that we were early). We found our cabin (a B2 balcony on deck 5) and within minutes the luggage arrived and we unpacked.

We then set out to begin the exploration. We were a little alarmed to find that the wall decorations on Deck 5 was the entire story of the sinking of the Titanic!!!. Overall the ship impressed us immensely, the level of decoration, the polished woods and the wall panels really took your breath away. The entire ship was beautifully decorated even to a higher standard than we remembered relative to the QE2. There was never a delay for the elevators which were more than enough for the ship. Read more