Please don't throw anything at me!! Maybe Barb or Tony can help me here! :)

[4megs]

Hi disneyholic family..

Your description of the Queen Mary and the QE1 sound like some of the scenes in "Titanic"... ...a different time.

I got to admit that our QE2 trip was wonderful and memorable - a trip that we'll never forget.

My DD was allowed to practice her "talent show piece" on a piano that was originally on the Queen Mary. Very beautiful...

Here's hoping we can all make the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary 2! Hopefully they'll keep the "charm" of her predesessors!

Cheers!

 

[disneyholic family]

4metgs....

very titanic....with a gigantic sweeping grand staircase and everything...my sister and i had a stateroom that i'd swear was bigger than my house is today.......(and a bathroom with tub....the steward would come to 'draw the bath' for you.....and of course there was a way to call him from the bath and the room....i can't remember what...a cord perhaps.....he seemed to always be less than two seconds away when we called......)
i'm actually dying to go see the QM in long beach california...
my son is campaigning for a trip to LA after WDW (so he can see disneyland for the first time)....if we actually do that, i'll insist on a visit to the QM....it'll be interesting to see how big it really is...
in my mind, with the memories of a 7 year old, the ship was ENORMOUS......but i imagine it wasn't quite that big....
i do remember the first class movie theatre....with all this fancy furniture in it....all brocade......love seats and strange things like that...
memories....

 

[Dave_from_Marietta]

Originally posted by disneyholic family

i'm actually dying to go see the [Queen Mary] in long beach california... i'll insist on a visit to the QM... it'll be interesting to see how big it really is... in my mind, with the memories of a 7 year old, the ship was ENORMOUS... but i imagine it wasn't quite that big.

dholfam, you inspired me to go visit www.queenmary.com. The Disney ships are big, but the Queen Mary is comparable. In fact, the QM is 55 feet longer than the Disney ships.

BTW, if you do go out to California, perhaps you could stay onboard. They have 365 hotel staterooms, and the photos of some of the suites look pretty cool!

 

[disneyholic family]

thanks for the link Dave!
right....3 smokestacks....or whatever those are called...
i remember the first sight of it when we got to the port in new york....so impressive.....breathtaking.....
i think the ship was completely refurbished and remodeled in the late 60's when they removed the locked gates (i know they removed them, i just don't know when)...
i sailed on her in 1963 (kind of giving away my age there i guess)....
back when the classes were classes and never the twain shall meet (a very strange experience for a 7 year old american....encountering british class consciousness...but as i said earlier, i had the run of the ship....and i really didn't understand the implications of those locked gates...)..
i remember swimming in the pool.....it wasn't on deck, rather somewhere inside the ship.....i remember the water moving from side to side, or rather i think it was from front to back....i'd swim towards one side, all the water would go back the other way, so i'd swim back (take that all with a grain of salt and a decades old memory)......i remember the man in charge of the pool.....he taught me to swim.....that's legendary in the family.....that i finally learned to swim on the QM (and i'm pretty sure it was a salt water pool)....

when i told my mother that they're building a QM 2 she was just as enthusiastic as i about sailing on her.....that trip was a standout in all our memories (after that one, all the trips back and forth to europe - and there were many, owing to my father's work - were in that little metal tube in the sky that so terrifies me)....

one big shock for me, i recently learned that cunard lines is owned by carnival cruise lines.....wow....that's sacreligious or something......but apparently they're they ones bringing it back to its old glory....of course, the snob that i am in my old age, i'll probably miss the locked gates.....(just kidding....mostly).....

 

[kamgen]

I posted a poll, seems to be spilt on DCL and Carnival. Especially when the C cruise will save us $600 over the DCL.
Hmmmm... don't know what to do yet! LOL!

Kamy

 

[Hygiene99]

kamgen, go for it ...
we have cruised on others before dcl and now we dont but i reccomend u try it ... we went on something like
wind jammer bare foot cruises, sail boat it was a 3 masted schooner and had 30 people on board plus crew
it was called the sir Francis Drake ... but it Sank of the coast of St. Martins in a hurricane several years ago was fun
and we have also rented our own sail boat with captian and cook was AWESOME..... was a 52 foot sail boat
so i say try it DCL will still be there ...
PETER Hi Kamy we need our fix WDW
when r u going us not til may .... maybe sooner if i get laid off......

 

[disneyholic family]

hygiene99..

did you change your post? (or maybe i imagined it)...
well...
in response to what you said in the deleted post....

you're quite right....
this whole cruise thing might be a big mistake for me because of my motion sickness problems......
on the other hand, my kids desperately want to go on DCL...
and i think it sounds like a truly spectacular family vacation...
and there's no way of knowing for sure whether my motion sickness will be an issue or not without trying...
that's why i picked the 3 night cruise.....if it is a problem it will be over soon enough (although i suppose if i'm not well it will feel like an eternity....)

i mean, maybe i'll be fine and we'll adore it...
then a whole new world that i thought was off limits to me will be opened up.......the potential is terribly exciting....don't you think?...

so i'm crossing my fingers and hoping it will all work out.....
and a grand time will be had by one and all (including yours truly).....

 

[Chattyaholic]

hubby and I plan to try Princess next time. We cruised on the 7-day Magic in January 2001, and have another Magic cruise (Western itinerary this time) planned for January 2003. But after that we want to try Princess, as we want to take our daughter and son-in-law with us and Princess has great looking family staterooms. They are actually two regular staterooms connected with a larger living room and double-size verandah, but with separate sleeping areas and separate bathrooms. There are other lines we want to try too, and other itineraries. It will be fun comparing them to our Disney cruises!!