Date Set for QE2 Cruise Ship to Become Hotel CruiseCritic.co.uk Date Set for QE2 Cruise Ship to Become Hotel. Tweet. (10:30 a.m. EDT) -- The QE2's transformation into ... The iconic liner will undergo a complete refurbishment at the COSCO shipyard in China, which will see its current 990 cabins converted to 400 suites. The contractor will also refurbish the ballroom, ... Owners QE2 Holdings also announced that it has invited seven international interior architecture houses to take part in a competition to design the interior of the ship. The designs can be seen on the official website ... |
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Date Set for QE2 Cruise Ship to Become Hotel - CruiseCritic.co.uk
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Date Set for QE2 Cruise Ship to Become Hotel - Cruise Critic
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Date Set for QE2 Cruise Ship to Become Hotel Cruise Critic The iconic liner will undergo a complete refurbishment at the COSCO shipyard in China, which will see its current 990 cabins converted to 400 suites. The contractor will also refurbish the ballroom, as well as refit seven restaurants, 10 lounges, a cinema, ... |
Chinese firm hired to convert Dubai's QE2 into luxury hotel - ArabianBusiness.com
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Chinese firm hired to convert Dubai's QE2 into luxury hotel ArabianBusiness.com The Dubai-based owner of the iconic QE2 cruise liner has announced the appointment of COSCO Shipyard Group to refurbish the ship into a luxury floating hotel. QE2 Holdings said in a statement that the cruise ship, which has hosted kings, queens, ... |
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Flash From the Past: Why QE2 Wouldn't Save Our Sinking Ship - EconoMonitor
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Flash From the Past: Why QE2 Wouldn't Save Our Sinking Ship EconoMonitor Here's a piece I published in HuffPost back on Oct 18, 2010. A flash from the past–three years ago–predicting that QE2 would prove to be as impotent as QE1 had been. And here we are, folks. No recovery in sight–at least once you get off Wall Street. |
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Flash From the Past: Why QE2 Wouldn't Save Our Sinking Ship - EconoMonitor (blog)
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Flash From the Past: Why QE2 Wouldn't Save Our Sinking Ship EconoMonitor (blog) Here's a piece I published in HuffPost back on Oct 18, 2010. A flash from the past–three years ago–predicting that QE2 would prove to be as impotent as QE1 had been. And here we are, folks. No recovery in sight–at least once you get off Wall Street. |
Friday, September 27, 2013
On This Day: The Queen launches the QE2 cruise liner - Yahoo! News UK
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Yahoo! News UK | On This Day: The Queen launches the QE2 cruise liner Yahoo! News UK SEPTEMBER 20, 1967: The Queen launched the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise liner on this day in 1967 Рand revealed for the first time that the iconic ship was to be named after her. A British Path̩ newsreel shows thousands cheering at Clydebank as the ... |
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
The woman who lives on the QE2 - BBC News
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BBC News | The woman who lives on the QE2 BBC News ... QE2's only permanent resident. Some years ago she sold her property in the US to live on the liner full time. ... Cruise ship holidays had never appealed to Mrs Muller until, in 1995, she stepped on board with her husband, Bob. Both were taken by it and and ... |
Sunday, September 8, 2013
The woman who lives on the QE2 - BBC News
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BBC News | The woman who lives on the QE2 BBC News ... QE2's only permanent resident. Some years ago she sold her property in the US to live on the liner full time. ... Cruise ship holidays had never appealed to Mrs Muller until, in 1995, she stepped on board with her husband, Bob. Both were taken by it and and ... |
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Record-breaking ship visits Port of Tyne - Shields Gazette
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Shields Gazette | Record-breaking ship visits Port of Tyne Shields Gazette Carrying almost 3,500 passengers and crew, the MSC Magnifica is 294 metres – longer than the QE2 – and the largest cruise ship ever to visit the Port. The Magnifica visited yesterday as part of a Round Britain cruise with thousands of passengers from as far ... |
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Dubai to lose QEII - Malaysia Sun
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Dubai to lose QEII Malaysia Sun Dubai's Drydocks World, the owners of the iconic QE2 ocean liner, is about to say goodbye to its famous acquisition. The ship will leave the emirate in October to be transferred to a new entity called QE2 Shipping. The QE2 will be converted to a floating luxury ... |
Friday, August 23, 2013
Dubai has 'fantastic' plans to relaunch the QE2 - ArabianBusiness.com
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ArabianBusiness.com | Dubai has 'fantastic' plans to relaunch the QE2 ArabianBusiness.com The chairman of Dubai's Drydocks World, the owners of the iconic QE2 ocean liner, said he will not be sorry to see the back of the ship when it leaves the emirate in October. But he said Dubai had “fantastic” plans and the funding in place to rebrand it when it ... |
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
TALK FROM THE TOP: Drydocks World boss on underwater hotels and the QE2 - 7DAYS
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7DAYS | TALK FROM THE TOP: Drydocks World boss on underwater hotels and the QE2 7DAYS Sitting in the shallows across from where we meet is the unmistakable hulk of the QE2, once the world's most famous ocean liner. Plans to turn the ship into the centrepiece of Dubai's new maritime district went the way of the Titanic and it has been announced ... |
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Cunard releases video of milestone transatlantic crossing of QE2 - FinancialNews.co.uk
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Cunard releases video of milestone transatlantic crossing of QE2 FinancialNews.co.uk Following the cruise ship Queen Mary 2´s 200th transatlantic crossing UK-based cruise line Cunard released video highlights from its flagship´s milestone Atlantic voyage. Cunard said that the QE2 departed New York for Southampton, England, on 6 July ... |
Thursday, July 25, 2013
QE2 Set To Steam To China To Berth As A Floating Hotel - Pars Herald
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Pars Herald | QE2 Set To Steam To China To Berth As A Floating Hotel Pars Herald Retired cruise liner The QE2 is ready to steam from Dubai to an unknown destination in China, where the once graceful liner will become a floating hotel. The anchor will be weighed in October after a refurbishment and engine servicing for her final 4,000 mile ... |
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
A QE2 Hotel May Ply the Waters - New York Times
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New York Times | A QE2 Hotel May Ply the Waters New York Times In 2007, the QE2 was purchased for $100 million by one of Dubai's state-owned investment companies, which moved it to the Persian Gulf with plans to transform the ship into a floating Jumeirah hotel. ... Earlier this month, a company called QE2 Holdings — a new joint venture between Dubai World and the Singapore-based cruise company Oceanic Group — announced plans to go ahead with the floating hotel project, but to move the QE2 from the Dubai cargo port where it has been laid up to a city in East Asia, ... |
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