Thanks for your easy to find pictures. Jack. We once had a cabin with interconnecting doors on the QM2 and we could hear our neighbours. Our Queens Grill Suites are the finest expression of Cunard comfort and elegance, and among the most sumptuous and spacious at sea. She liked pink, said Ms. Mahendran, somewhat wistfully. The entertainment was a bit patchy with some excellent and some very average but that may be a matter of taste too. At 2 a.m. on Thursday, I joined the end of one of the longest lines Ive ever seen, known as The Queue. Thanks for starting this thead, Louise. lol :eek: Beautiful cabin and amazing balcony. 10+ Cruises Age 60s. I wish more people would take pictures of their staterooms and post the pros and cons. The cabin was badly affected by a banging pipe sound. If the system detects something that potentially contradicts our. Thanks again! Not just the worst cruise we have ever been on but also possibly the worst holiday. But for next Christmas on 11 I selected away from connecting rooms (the furthest-back BF cabins on 11 Forward are mostly connecting). It is interesting to hear about some of the problems that have been encountered with particular cabins, and also the good experiences. On Wednesday night, and into Thursday morning, the line was three miles long and ever-moving, with officials warning initially that waits might be as long as 30 hours. There was one problem, though: We already ate all the snacks.. Pleased I avoided Deck 8 now, and also a good tip regarding the interconnecting cabins. Simon Waters, from Southampton, on the south coast of England, joined the line with his family at 8 p.m. on Wednesday. Stateroom 6052 spent 42 nights here, 2 minutes from Lido,round corner from lifts,no problems. QE is a Vista Class ship we were on a similar ship (different line) and have booked a similar room on our upcomng voyage to the med. Shame on Cunard for allowing their ship to be so noise affected. Photo Gallery Photo. Category Q6 and Q7 is 484 to 508 square feet including balcony. Barry - I laughed when you said you have only been on 12 cruises! Staterooms range in size from 190 to 420 square feet with 54 square foot balconies. The taste of the water was. Stepping aside would also hurry her relatives into realizing that theyre running out of time to justify their subsidized existence. Thats us, isnt it? she said, adding, tongue-in-cheek: We do queue very well.. Some came with their families, lugging chairs and wearing padded coats to ward off a fresh nip in the air. She added that she remembered a visit to Bedford by the queen, who greeted people in the pouring rain so, Why should the cold stop us?. 8084. When the system detects a problem, a review may be automatically rejected, sent to the reviewer for validation, or manually reviewed by our team of content specialists, who work 24/7 to maintain the quality of the reviews on our site. I had 7031 on the QV this June on a British Isles cruise. It was the noisiest cabin we have ever been in. Hope this makes sense. Those of you that have experienced a cabin below a buffet (obviously not on QA!) There are plans for the line to loop inside Southwark Park, in South London, accommodating a length of up to 10 miles; the government has said it will turn people away once it judges that they will not have time to reach the coffin. Very best wishes :) . Announcing Our 2023 Cruisers' Choice Award Winners! Looking at one of these "corner" staterooms with the extra space/bigger balcony is making me think maybe the $5000 extra (world cruise, going solo) would be worth it. She floated into the Met Gala in an angelic Chanel couture gown. Trips were , bar one, excellent but are expensive at times. The Reality-TV Producer Sleeping With a Guitar Player, AI Singers Are Unnervingly Good and Already Ubiquitous, The Best and Wildest Beauty Looks on the 2023 Met Gala Red Carpet. As she neared a checkpoint under the towering wheel of the London Eye, workers began to hand out pink wristbands to let people leave the line briefly and keep their place. The only noise was the occasional cry of an infant and the sound of soldiers boots on the stone floor when the uniformed honor guard changed shifts. Ms. Mahendran had watched the royal procession earlier that day taking the queen from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, which had given her with a sense of national pride. You will be able to leave a comment after signing in, Copyright 19952023 The Independent Traveler, Inc. Thousands of people waited in line a very long line to pay homage at the coffin of the queen, who will lie in state until her funeral on Monday. Cabins 8179 & 8176 Queen Elizabeth. Thus from exactly 7am until 11pm every day, evening and night of our cruise my wife and I could hear a continual bang bang - bang bang something like a hammer whacking a metal pipe. Follow Share. Powered by Invision Community. The number of cabin categories is 34. Next Deck 7. The Most Harrowing Testimony From the Lori Vallow Trial. The queen has devoted her life to her work, but her existence as monarch and head of state is also singularly lonely. Everything alternates. Why the Met Galas Karl Lagerfeld Theme Is Controversial. I find it difficult to find any thing useful in the "Photo Gallery" because everyone labels their pictures differently. The ship is a bit tired and the technology is out of date. Certainly not the exact cabin number or it's location - fore and aft, up or down. The cabin was small, lack of wardrobe space and a poky shower room. Any cabin we have been in has been far better than a cave in Afghanistan - so we consider ourselves very lucky. Mourners lining up near Tower Bridge on Friday to pay their respects following the death of the queen last week. Queens Coffin Passes London Landmarks, in a Grand but Hushed Royal Display, In a Final Homecoming, the Queens Coffin Arrives in London, Were Part of History: An Overnight Wait to Bid Farewell to Queen Elizabeth II, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/world/europe/queen-lying-in-state-queue.html. Japan still advise the wearing of masks so to avoid a repeat of the debacle when Bali refused entry in December, Cunard had to try and control any spread rigorously. The people in the line, thousands and thousands of them, had come from nearby, from London and surrounding counties, and from places far from the capital, like Lancashire in the northwest of England. For all who have posted - thanks for your reviews and I hope there will be many more. ft. Its unbelievable.. The ship has no connecting rooms. Also make sure your cabin is not directly above the Theatre. We did have a really nice outside cabin once on P&O Oriana for half a World Cruise - but we got upgraded to it and it would normally have been W-A-A-Y out of our price range. Louise D, August 31, 2012 in Cunard Line. There is little sound-proofing between such cabins although I subsequently found out you could request some sort of privacy screen from your steward - however, I'd always avoid them unless you're a heavy sleeper and early riser (our next door neighbours not only stayed up late but they got up early too!). Just move your mouse over any stateroom and a pop up will appear with detail information, including a full description and floor layout, and a link to pictures and/or videos. A6 Cabins 4003-4042 and A7 Cabins have metal fronted balconies. But as a longtime royal watcher, I see why it would be good for her, and her successors, if she steps aside. :(. It would help if you let us know the cabin number. PS. If below the Outside Decks or the Lido Decks. We witnessed no enhanced cleaning or social distancing strategies in place. If you've watched The Crown, you'll know that Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Coleman) gives truly terrible advice. The balcony was very sheltered from the wind, but not very private. As a child, Elizabeth was raised to prioritize duty over all else, effectively repudiating the choice her uncle King Edward VIII made in 1936. We never saw the husband again as he was still in isolation when we disembarked but the wife said she had not been tested at any point other than a check with a temperature gun. Are there other places that we should avoid. Prices are cruise only, per person, double occupancy, and are provided by our partners. The question consuming everyone: how long, exactly, was the wait to reach Westminster Hall? But, as a general rule, to avoid this type of cabin, make sure that you are surrounded by passenger cabins and that there are no mysterious gaps. Some crew members were left for 2.5 hours in the heat trying to get back as passengers were given priority. We found that the passenger mix was fairly wide ranging and everyone was very polite and friendly. Copy Link Cabins. The charge is the same for adults and children. Downside; Loss of privacy, esp with the next balcony forward. Thanks Kathi, I hope you find some of them useful, I've more to post as soon as I can find a few minutes :( . You can expect a space ratio of 36% on this ship. To get to the hall, mourners have to join a line that stretches along the South Bank of the Thames, past St. Pauls Cathedral, the Millennium Bridge, Southbank Center and London Bridge. Six hours, people had heard, or no, at least 12 or was it, perhaps, two hours a mile? A great cabin, no noise, and a slightly larger balcony being on deck 4. They are so sneaky they don't tell you until you pass the customs area then they quietly hand you a mask and say have a nice trip. A woman spoke of runners exhaustion: This is like a 5k.. During the cruise even they mentioned the noise from the lido, but I do not know which PG deck 8 cabin they were in. I liked that she was a mother figure, said Bunmi Oniwinde, who brought two of her sons with her. Queen Elizabeth cabins review Of all MS Queen Elizabeth staterooms (1043), 71% are Balcony, 86% Outside, 7% Interior. From 6.30am every morning we were woken by the people next door watching tv, when we wanted to relax in our cabin in the afternoons we were disturbed by constant noise of sport on the tv and as late as 1.30am we were kept awake. Clearly ill people were not tested as per Cunards published protocols-did Cunard not want to know the true size of the problem for fear of having to report it to the Japanese authorities? On the Mary we were in the Britannia Club Deck 12 Cabins and only in the early more heard a little from above when they placed the deck chairs out and really didn't bother us at all. I have always avoided deck 8 under the lido. Are Kim and Kourtney Feuding Over Kourtneys Wedding? At 4 in the morning, the weariness became more apparent in some stretches of the line. Queen Elizabeth cruise ship passengers beware of noisy cabins on Deck 8. Read more about the mourning for Queen Elizabeth II: At one cafe, where some people sat slumped in chairs, Reena Mehmi was buying cappuccinos for her family while her father held her place in line. Announcing Our 2023 Cruisers' Choice Award Winners! Crowds of Britons are lining up to view Queen Elizabeths coffin before her funeral on Monday. Our preferences are deck 4 or 7 for PG, and mostly the same for other rooms. But amid the solemnity and memorials, the Queue has emerged as an object of fascination, a miles-long stretch of ever-moving people trudging day and night alongside the Thames and past many of Londons landmarks. The cabin was slightly larger than standard (but not laid out to take advantage of this extra space :confused: ). By For me the attraction is that, because of the inward curve of the hull at that point there should be a bit of a view forward. LONDON The line was three miles long on Thursday. Staterooms range from 291 to 420 square feet plus a 90 square foot balcony. Please note that some issues can change from one voyage to the next. We are looking at a cruise on Queen Elizabeth which is has partially obstructed cabins. You cant just describe it, he said, of seeing the queens coffin and the crown sitting above it. Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse Getty Images, many approached what has amounted to a public test of endurance. The late designer was known for his misogynistic and racist comments. Anne then launches into a devastating monologue about the anger and blackness that has poisoned her life. My sister used my wedding as a business opportunity, Kourtney says in a new trailer. Six hours, people had heard, or no, at least 12 or was it, perhaps, two hours for each mile? He proved himself incredibly versatile as a designer. They lengthen, lift, and thicken lashes for just a few dollars. When she is present, her advancing age is being accommodated: At a March service honoring her late husband, Prince Philip, she entered Westminster Abbey through a side door to avoid walking the churchs lengthy nave. I found deck 7 much quieter than 8. QM2's 1,360 cabins are available in four categories, ranging from Britannia Singles to the ship's suites, which are divided into four sub-categories, ranging from Princess Grill to Queens Grill. but as with hotel rooms, I know to avoid cabins above or below public spaces such as restaurants as the noise of chairs scraping is soooooo annoying. When she died, it hit me I was unmoored, he said. Thanks again! By broadwater, May 10, 2019 in Cunard Line. Wheelchair-accessible are 20. I have them bookmarked because I look at them frequently. Shame on QE. Everyone was feeling a bit tired, she said, but thought it was better to come overnight rather than risk an even longer wait the following day. I would never have an inter-connecting cabin on QM2. Apart from that we really enjoyed our time in BC. Click for Im not sure, Ms. Allchorne said. QE did not offer to move us to at least a cabin of the category that we had paid for or better. Hi Jack. This is a list of all the cabins and suites onboard Cunard Line's Queen Elizabeth. It was extremely intrusive and totally unacceptable on a ship touted to be of excellent quality. On QM2 the Deck 11 staterooms have an overhang from Deck 12 beginning 1/3 to 1/2 way back. Terms of Service apply. Room steward Steven was, We choose this cruise as a treat for my 50th birthday and choose to book for 14 nights,we booked a spacious deluxe inside room on a saver fare,two weeks before we sailed we were told that we had been upgraded to an outside smaller footage room,when we looked at the room online not only was it smaller but had a tender boat completely blocking the window,after almost an hour on the phone we were. 19952023, The Independent Traveler, Inc. Special Event: Q&A with Rudi Schreiner, President, Co-Founder & Co-Owner - AmaWaterways River Cruises, Q&A with Avoya Travel: Learn How to Turn Your Passion into Success by Becoming an Independent Travel Advisor. Add to that the usual exorbitant drinks prices and they even had the cheek to add over $400 in voluntary tips and $10 for port visa charges. Close to the lifts allow access up and down without the hike to the front/aft locations. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. lovely ship and staff and food was generally excellent at all. It is interesting having two reviews for the same cabin on this thread already !! Passenger cabins above, below, and across the corridor, and no connecting cabins is the only way to go. Handy for the lifts and stairs. Category Q5 is 773 to 771 square feet including balcony. . The downsides are organisation of disembarkation at ports was for the first couple of ports frankly poor but improved until Japan who made disembarking a toil by delaying it so much. Waiting along the Thames on Wednesday. Queen Suite - [Q5] Approximately 484-671 sq. Looks Like Rihanna Is Ready for the Met Gala. We actually feared after a two hour delay in being allowed off the ship in Okinawa (those who had booked trips were stuck in the theatre from 08.30 to 10.30) that the Japanese authorities werent going to be allowed in and we would be stuck at sea as in the first days of COVID. We witnessed one member of staff raising his voice to an elderly passenger and telling her that it was not his duty to help her fill in the form - he was doing her a favour! What to expect from the coronation of King Charles III? As the ship arrives in port, and then leaves in the afternoon, you get up to an hour of a high-pitched sound from the thrusters. We really enjoyed the any time dining, the a la carte menu, the intimate dining room, and the opportunity for flambe and the cheese trolley in BC on QE. The balcony is covered by the balcony above so no sunlight and makes the room very dark. What would I expect in the way of an obstruction? So we always book the cheapest "guarantee" inside we can get - and enjoy whatever we get. 8033 was bigger and had a larger balcony. See the Cunard Queen Elizabeth Britannia Balcony Stateroom cabin. The queen is already focused on succession. Drinks are reasonable compared to some cruises but avoid the drinks package unless you are an alcoholic. Click here to reload the page in order to enable certain features. All rights reserved. 4098. By Friday, it had grown to five miles. Stepping down could give her a few years of relative normality, perhaps filled with the dogs, horses and other elements of country living she enjoys. 190 sqft. Vera123, January 12, 2017 in Cunard Line. It has a reputation for being noisy as it is right next to a crew recreation area but I'll report back on that aspect in early October. Hi Kathi, I've added some more pictures of the cabin, balcony and view from 7119 on QE. Just my 2 cents worth. Deluxe Inside (GB) Oceanview (EC) Cabins Balcony Cabin size: 228 - 352 sq. After the jubilee celebrations next month, Elizabeth could step aside as part of a royal modernization, helping to launch her sons kingship. The boarding process was good and seamless.We were in Our Voyage number :Q305 Close. As people trudged along the route, past the dark water of the River Thames and with a floodlit St. Pauls Cathedral in the background, a handful of cafes and bars were open, with queues of their own inside. Kathi. The balcony was also larger than standard being a "corner" balcony. QE - 5092 (BA) - friends had this cabin. This usually means that the bed is on the left hand side and so the bed head would be on the wall that shares with cabin 6150. http://www.cunard.co.uk/Documents/2016-2017-deck-plans/QV-deck-plans-2082016-2017.pdf. Unless you . Grammy Awardwinning artist Lil Nas X showed up to the Met Gala in crystals, pearls, diamonds, and not much else. FOOD - ate breakfast only in the buffet, food was hot and tasty, all the English favourites. Then in your stateroom they. I would not hesitate to book 7119 again :) , or a similar "corner" cabin. Tweet. If the cruise line can "upgrade" you into a less desirable location, your old cabin is available for sale. We have never been on Cunard and it had a lot of hype as to the quality so decided to try them on a five night culinary cruise from Sydney.We have dome many cruises so perhaps our expectations were too high. It is interesting that choosing the right stateroom is causing so much angst, so I thought I would start a thread to invite responses about the best and worst of the staterooms on QE. Chaotic embarkation and disembarkation. The information is extremely useful. The big problem with both cabins is that there is some kind of vent just above them, which is very noisy and a problem when we sat out on the balconies. This is something that were not ever going to see again, she said. Eventually, we had to get the purser's office to call the passengers and ask them to be quiet (which they did, to be fair.). These are Britannia Club, we were in 8039 and our 3 children in 8033. Booked 8025 once without realising it was linked to another room and we were kept awake for the first few nights by loud conversation in the early hours in either Mandarin or Cantonese. Booked 8025 once without realising it was linked to another room and we were kept awake for the first few nights by loud conversation in the early hours in either Mandarin or Cantonese. Cruises from $ Overview Cabins Dining Onboard Activities . Portable bathrooms and drinking stations have been set up along the route and attendants have handed out wristbands to maintain order, allowing people to peel off at the cafes and bars along the route, a handful of which are staying open overnight. No matter what the issue is transnational terrorism, cheating scandals, addiction she pulls from the same grab bag of royal tips: Take a good brisk walk, sleep on it, and the dreaded . We've stayed in and around both stairway A and pretty far back aft - just below the outside area on deck 9. I understand your point that they should not allow such a noisy cabin on the ship in the first place. As I am a cruise virgin, I can't offer any tips on previous cabins as I haven't had any (!!!) But, she conceded, it was quite an experience to be in London, being part of a historic occasion. Just saw a thread on the general forum regarding advice on which cabins NOT to pick for whatever reason. Review for Queen Elizabeth to Australia & New Zealand. Each Queens Grill Suite includes: King-sized bed with sumptuous linens and seven-pillow concierge menu.Bathroom with bath and shower and separate dressing area. Here is the inside QE cabin we had for our recent "3 Queens" cruise. 28 Pairs of Pajamas for All Kinds of Sleepers. Kathi, Pepperrn. Karlie Kloss Announced Her Second Pregnancy at the 2023 Met Gala. All descriptions are general as it relates to a particular category. When she finally got to the end, to the coffin, she said, she would probably cry her eyes out. more, Yokohama, Taipei (Keelung), Hualien, Miyakojima (Hirara), Okinawa, Yokohama, Before posting, each Tripadvisor review goes through an automated tracking system, which collects information, answering the following questions: how, what, where and when. All responses will be gratefully received. We were in room 8125. Guarantee Cabins A guarantee cabin, or guaranteed cabin, is when you are not given a specific cabin allocation on booking. When I started cruising with Cunard in 2003, the ships and the whole experience were all 5-star but now QE would barely rank a 3-star rating in nearly all, As a Diamond member we love the formality of the Cunard line and the Ballroom so we booked the around Australia cruise in November and also the Around New Zealand cruise in January 2023 You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. Makes you feel really quite proud, said Sujata Mahendran, who lined up overnight on Thursday with her husband. There is a small "splash pool", two hot tubs and an outside bar (that is rarely open) but they wouldn't cause much noise for the cabins below I would have thought. The first few foreward cabins on deck 4 on both QV and QE. On another ship we were below the Lido and once below the area like the King's Court and again only once during the Morning Setup did we heard minor noise. - King-size bed that convert to two twins. The first half week I wasn't sure there was anyone in there. The only time we needed to tender they discovered that they werent all working (arent these also lifeboats?) Hundreds of thousands of people have ignored stories about the arduous wait to join the monumentally long, slow-moving line stretching through London along the River Thames, as they sought to pay their respects at the coffin before the queens funeral on Monday morning. With hours to burn, and not much sleep to be had, the mood in many stretches of the line was one of good-humored resignation and even camaraderie. Fuel supplements may apply. View all 994 Photos. Category KC is a cabin for singles. This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Read More. We stayed in that cabin for 5 weeks (Barcelona to Sydney). Simon Waters, from Southampton, on the south coast of England, joined the line with his family at 8 p.m. on Wednesday. 1 - 10 of 268 Cunard Queen Elizabeth Balcony Cabin Cruise Reviews Most Review for Queen Elizabeth to Australia & New Zealand highriding 6-10 Cruises Age 40s Read More Sail Date: February. Do you then tell Cunard you don't want to be upgraded? If you are a resident of another country or region, please select the appropriate version of Tripadvisor for your country or region in the drop-down menu. There are 12 passenger decks, 7 with cabins. (As requested to) There was a slight reduction in the volume after I first complained but no real improvement and guest relations didn't seem to be able to resolve the issue, although we enjoyed the cruise I couldn't wait to go home for a sleep past 6.30am! We had a balcony cabin on Deck 8. http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1545991, http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1190647&page=2. This all speaks to more than just someones aversion to being seen in a wheelchair. The only downside was the noise from the Lido above us. And with the background of floodlit landmarks like St. Pauls Cathedral across the river, many were clearly enjoying the view. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, This password will be used to sign into all, Photo: Left: Chris Jackson/Getty Images, Right: Courtesy of Netflix, All I Want for Christmas Is Princess Dianas Hunting Jacket, Wow, This Really Is the Least Boring Season of, Im Obsessed With the Queens Terrible Advice, 38 Best Sneakers for Women in Every Single Style, Im On the Hunt for the Best Sunscreens Without a White Cast, Madame Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for the Week of May 1. This is the partially obstructed balcony view on QV - cabin 5112. Will Choupette Walk the Carpet, and More Met Gala 101. A mother cradled a baby, looking into the distance. Where were you for you worst room? In the Lido restaurant tables were wiped down with a damp cloth that had been used to wipe other tables that had had masks and even serviettes that had been coughed into placed on them. As the hours dragged on, rumors rippled down the line over the question that had been consuming everyone: How long, exactly, was the wait? Thanks for starting this thead, Louise. Last time Cunard! For my upcoming cruise, I very nearly booked a balcony cabin on Deck 8 but luckily checked the deck plan last minute to find that the cabin would have been below the pool area. Followers 1. Sign up for the Post Elizabeth newsletter to follow the British monarchys transition, Latest coronation update shows that the palace still doesnt get it, How Trump made it cool for Republicans to hate their own party, Regulators seize ailing First Republic Bank, sell remains to JPMorgan.