Comments on: A Queen Elizabeth Update with Peter Shanks

By: Martin Jarrett

Martin Jarrett — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:58:54 +0000

Looks like the ship is going to be beautiful -On a personal note Peter – you ought to set up an old Cranleighans Cruise before we’re all retired !

Congratulations on the new ship

Martin Jarrett

By: Freda & Bill Cureton

Freda & Bill Cureton — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:12:22 +0000

Just returned from a monumental celebration – Queen Mary 2’s 5th Anniversary Around the British Isles Cruise. Had a fabulous time on board and in all the ports of call.

Congratulations and many thanks to all concerned at Cunard.

See you again soon.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:52:55 +0000

I am surprised that CUNARD ignored many passenger’s comments (to Carol M. both written and verbally) that the mid-ship outdoor pool on the forthcomiung QE should have a retractable roof. Having done the maiden WORLD cruise on the QV, the use of that pool was sorely limited by weather conditions. If I recall, the retractable roof on the Winter Garden might have been opened less that a half dozen times during the voyage. On other cruises aboard the QV, bad weather prevented any use of that pool as well. While we were berthed next to the HAL ZUIDERDAM in Istanbul( same class of ship) their pool was covered and the pax could make use of the pool every day.

Another corrective measure should be drawer space in the cabins on the QE. Hopefully this is being rectified and we won’t find ourselves kneeling at the foot of the bed pulling out our clothes on the QE’s WORLD cruise.

By: Stuart Denyer

Stuart Denyer — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:18:54 +0000

Dear Mr. Shanks:
It sounds like the interior of the new Queen Elizabeth will be truly magnificent – a homage to grand liners of yore but with modern touches. It’s only a shame that more thought wasn’t put into the exterior of the ship. The French-built Queen Mary 2 has a splendid profile, with a curved stern, recessed decks, etc. It sounds, however, that the new QE exterior will look much like the Queen Victoria’s – a pedestrian Italian-built cruise ship indistinguishable from Holland-America or P & O ships. I hope the Queen Mary 2’s exterior design can inspire future Cunard ships.
Sincerely,
Stuart Denyer

By: Gabriel Moronez

Gabriel Moronez — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:27:24 +0000

Hello

My name is Gabriel.I live in southern California

I just want to know will the new Queen Elizabeth

be faster then Queen Victoria and what will be her

cruising speed and Max speed please let me know

I love all the Queen ships my e-mail is

victoriaboy@live.com

Thank you Gabriel Moronez

By: Michael Birch

Michael Birch — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:11:35 +0000

Hello:

I wanted to tell Cunard a little story.

I was in the United States Navy for eight years. For the first four of those years, 1966-1970, I was stationed onboard the USS Simon Lake, a submarine tender based at Holy Loch, Scotland. Holy Loch is located near Greenoch, approximately 30 miles from Glasgow. When I took the train back and forth to Glasgow, we would pass through Clyde Bank. Off in the distance we could see the QE2 being built. Week by week, month by month, it grew larger and larger. I knew it was going to be something special. When the QE2 took its “shakedown cruise,” it anchored near our ship. I remember how white it was, and how at night with its lights aglow, it seemed almost like something from a fairie tale. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, and I still do. I stood in our Pilot House with a pair of binoculars looking at the QE2, wondering if someone in the QE2’s Pilot House was looking back at me. I decided then that someday I would cruise on that majestic ship.

Unfortunately that never happened, and now it’s too late. More than 40 years later, I do look forward to my first cruise ever, on the Queen Victoria in February 2011 (roundtrip Los Angeles to Hawaii). But my heart is still with the QE2, and now that I’m retired and in my “twilight years,” I hope that I might instead be able to cruise on the new Queen Elizabeth (money is always an issue). To do so would be something of a “homecoming” for me, and remind me briefly of a time when both I and the QE2 were young.

Thank you for listening, and thank you for your magnificent ships. Cunard has been a wonderful part of my life since that long-ago day when I fell in love with an ocean liner.

Michael Birch
San Diego, California

By: Carol kane

Carol kane — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:47:05 +0000

If the new QE is 1/2 as good as QV we are in for a real treat, cant wait. I found the QM2 far to big,so pleased you did not go that way, cheers everyone

By: D Critchell

D Critchell — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:30:43 +0000

Looking forward to Queen Elizabeths maiden voyage hope it will have a walk round promenade deck also an allround vision in the commodore club or what ever it will be called like the Victoria has

By: Janie Maxwell

Janie Maxwell — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:27:39 +0000

I’m wondering why you are not calling her Queen Elizabeth 3? Is it because we have only had 2 human Queens by the name of Elizabeth?

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:18:20 +0000

We are sailing on the QE maiden voyage for our honeymoon and can’t wait. She looks wonderful.