Queen Mary Hotel - any experiences?

[aroundtheriverbend]

Hi all, we are leaving on our trip on 3/29, and will be staying our first night in the Queen Mary Hotel before heading to DLR. We thought staying on the old ship was a really cool concept - but only after booking a non-refundable room did we fully realize that alot of the "schtick" on the ship seems to be geared towards ghost stories , not sure how our two kids are going to take it. If any of you have experienced this, how was it? Anyone have school aged kids along?

Thanks!

 

[CaptainEIEIO]

Well we did go to the Queen Mary on one visit to California. We didn't stay at the hotel but we did go on the supposed ghost tour. Saw nothing... but it was still a cool tour that took us all the way down into the bowels of the ship.

Supposedly there are ghosts in the room where the torpedo hit the ship during the war and a lot of sailors died, and supposedly there is a ghost of a girl in the pool room that drowned there or something like that, but all we got was misted by them trying to make you think there was something there when there was nothing. Took lots of pictures, no orbs, no nothing, and we do believe in ghosts, but saw not a thing there.

But it did look like a pretty cool place to still have a hotel and it did look pretty fancy, but we didn't actually see any rooms. Other than the tours there is not much else to do. There is a Russian Submarine docked right next to it that you can go on too, but thats a separate tour and that costs of course more money. There was also some big dome thing there, but we didn't go over and do that, whatever that thing was, we didn't want to waste anymore time or money so we headed back to Disneyland.

While you are in Long Beach though a trip to the Aquarium of the Pacific is a cool place to go. The kids would love that. Its on the other side of the bay. You can see it out the portals of the ship, its the round building with the fish all over the side of it.

 

[aroundtheriverbend]

Thanks!

 

[kylmac]

We enjoyed staying there-did not see any ghost. However, the 2nd time we stayed the show "Ghost Whisperer" was filming-did not see any of the actors but saw their names on chairs-I thought that was cool. It is fun for us to try something different and staying on a non moving ship vs. DCL was different. Hope this helps!
Elizabeth

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

When you stay there, come back and post a review!

It's someplace I want to stay at sometime and I've always wondered what it would be like.

Some people have posted on Trip Advisor that the walls between sleeping rooms are thin and they wished they had ear plugs. So that's something to think about too.

 

[katrina1122]

Please let us know how it goes. DH and I just booked 6 nights there in Nov...got an amazing 50% off package w/ airfare yesterday.

We plan on doing 3 DLR days with hoppers. Maybe a day in San Diego and spend some time expoloring the ship as our home base.

I'm not sure how we'll like being on it for that long, but we couldn't pass up the price. The hotel and airfare from philly is less than just hotel at POFQ for us the same week and we still had to add in drive/gas on top.

I don't know how much we'll do with the ghost stuff, but the princess diana exhibit sounds nice, plus the WWII history tour and ship's heyday tour.

 

[aroundtheriverbend]

Hey all, sorry I hadn't checked back in for awhile. We enjoyed our stay there, here are a few thoughts:


We ate at two of the restaurants, we enjoyed them. Which was good, as nothing else seemed to be walking distance

Take advantage of the free shuttle to town, the aquarium was very nice

If you need a taxi, allow PLENTY of time for the doorman to call one, or arrange one in advance to pick you up at a certain time. They definitely don't hang out around the QM.

Agree that walls are thin, we brought a white noise machine and would recommend it

We stayed in a double queen room while SIL stayed in a two twin room. She had very cool, historic things like an old air conditioning vent, non functioning old salt water taps, etc. Our room was quite dull, and felt a little cramped. I would definitely recommend asking for a historic room at check in

We enjoyed both the self guided tour and the "mellow" ghost tour. There was another haunted house type tour with actors that we skipped as we heard horror stories of traumatized small kids

Hope that helps!!