Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Royal Caribbean unveils Quantum of the Seas cruise ship - Daily Echo

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Royal Caribbean unveils Quantum of the Seas cruise ship
Daily Echo
Quantum of the Seas · New cruise ship revealed. Bumper cars, sky diving, a London Eye-style crane pod and virtual balconies for inside cabins are just some of the features announced today for Royal Caribbean's next cruise ship Quantum of the Seas. The latest ship from RCL, who have Independence of the Seas, Adventure of the ... Compare Quantum with the graceful lines of the QE2. It looks a graceful as a container ship. They get uglier the bigger they become. Compare Quantum with the graceful lines of the ...

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Royal Caribbean unveils Quantum of the Seas cruise ship - Daily Echo

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Royal Caribbean unveils Quantum of the Seas cruise ship
Daily Echo
Quantum of the Seas · New cruise ship revealed. Bumper cars, sky diving, a London Eye-style crane pod and virtual balconies for inside cabins are just some of the features announced today for Royal Caribbean's next cruise ship Quantum of the Seas. The latest ship from RCL, who have Independence of the Seas, Adventure of the ... Compare Quantum with the graceful lines of the QE2. It looks a graceful as a container ship. They get uglier the bigger they become. Compare Quantum with the graceful lines of the ...

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Cruise Ships 2012, The Year In Review: Cunard Line - Maritime Matters

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Cruise Ships 2012, The Year In Review: Cunard Line
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It might have been an interesting prospect to have the QE2 travel to various ports as a temporary hotel and attraction. More realistically, just before Christmas British newspapers reported that the ship had been sold to Chinese interests for 20 million pounds ...

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Remember to release gripes as ship goes down - Independent Online (blog)

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Remember to release gripes as ship goes down
Independent Online (blog)
He dined one night with the QE2's captain and asked him why the ship, whose passageways were festooned with posters of Cunard liners, had no poster of the Titanic. The captain explained that the ... But back to the cruise liner. I met entertainments director Moss Hills, who had survived the recent sinking of two liners in the Indian Ocean – the Oceanos and the Achille Lauro. Having heard his harrowing account of the sinkings, I decided I had better familiarise myself with the lifeboat deck. There I found myself staring ...

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

QE2 to leave Dubai for Singapore by end of Sept - Hotelier Middle East

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QE2 to leave Dubai for Singapore by end of Sept
Hotelier Middle East
The Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2), the iconic cruise liner bought by Dubai for US$100m in 2007, is to leave Dubai for Singapore in either August or September this year as part of preparations to convert her into a 500-room floating hotel. Singapore-based Oceanic Group, which is managing the project, said that it would take a further three or four months to overhaul the ship's engines and generators to allow the QE2 to make the journey to the Far East without assistance. Daniel Chui, managing director of Oceanic Group, ...

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

QE2 to leave Dubai for Singapore by end-Sept - ArabianBusiness.com

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QE2 to leave Dubai for Singapore by end-Sept
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The Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2), the iconic cruise liner bought by Dubai for US$100m in 2007, is to leave Dubai for Singapore in either August or September this year as part of preparations to convert her into a 500-room floating hotel. Singapore-based Oceanic Group, which is managing the project, said that it would take a further three or four months to overhaul the ship's engines and generators to allow the QE2 to make the journey to the Far East without assistance. Daniel Chui, managing director of Oceanic Group, ...