Blogs from Queens?

[Karl-G]

Yesterday afternoon, the Queen Mary 2 and the Queen Elizabeth 2 both left Fort Lauderdale on round-the-world cruises.

 

Does anyone know if any passengers on the ships have blogs describing the voyages and adventures? I think it might be interesting. There must be about 5,000 passengers.

[JasonK]

never heard of it...

[swallows22]

The really big day is 20 February when they cross in Sydney harbour.

[JasonK]

Boys, Boys... this was meant to be humorous; Now don't make me go there, or I just might have to show up at your front door and get real nasty....!

[Guest EWC]

While the Queens go around the world, and they have several thousand passangers, most just go on segments and very few would go all the way. I don't know of any bloggers.

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

I'll be blogging about a portion of the QM2's world cruise: I'm boarding in Hong Kong and staying with the ship through Dubai (roughly 2/28-3/11).

 

I'll have my digicam with me too, so i plan on pictorially chronicling as much as possible without looking too much like a silly American tourist.

 

May i be beaten severley if i ever stoop to taking pictures of the 'Baked Alaska' night on any cruise line. LOL.

 

 

BN

[JasonK]

Let the Games begin!

[Karl-G]

The Whole Way

 

The local newspaper reported that Cunard throws a big reception and party at a fancy hotel the night before sailing for passengers who are going the whole way around the world. About 400 passengers from the QM2 and a lesser number from the QE2 were too many for any hotel ballroom in Fort Lauderdale, so the party was held in a Palm Beach hotel ballroom. It was reported that many guests for such all-the-way cruises arrive in the embarcation city several days in advance to begin partying in preparation. It was also noted that all-the-way passengers get "free" first class airplane tickets to and from their home city, and they also get "free" tickets to ten land tours of their choice during the cruise. There must be some gay men among the crowd who could give a unique travelogue.

[+ Lucky]

RE: Barf From Queens

 

Stomach Flu Sickened Hundreds on Cruise

By MARCUS WOHLSEN, Associated Press Writer

 

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

 

 

 

(01-24) 14:13 PST SAN FRANCISCO, (AP) --

 

 

A highly contagious form of stomach flu sickened hundreds of passengers during a worldwide voyage on the famed Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship in what health officials called an unusually large outbreak.

 

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 276 passengers and 28 crew members had come down with norovirus by the time the ship docked Wednesday in San Francisco for a regularly scheduled stop, though only four passengers remained sick.

 

 

The CDC boarded the QE2 on Friday in Acapulco, Mexico, to investigate the outbreak.

 

 

Investigators determined the emergency sanitation measures put in place by the ship's crew, from disinfecting casino chips to halting self-service at the ship's buffet, were containing the outbreak.

 

 

"This one was a good example where they had a lot of cases but they did gain control over the spread of infection," Ames said.

 

 

The infections affected nearly 17 percent of the ship's 1,652 passengers, a particularly high percentage, said Jaret Ames, acting chief of the CDC's vessel sanitation program. By comparison, a norovirus outbreak last month aboard the world's largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas, infected 338 passengers out of 3,823, or less than 9 percent.

 

 

In rare cases, the elderly and young children can die from dehydration caused by norovirus symptoms. The infection, which ranks second only to the common cold in reported cases, usually clears up in two or three days with no lasting effects.

 

 

No passengers have canceled their tickets as a result of the outbreak, said Brian O'Connor, a spokesman for Cunard Line, the company that operates the QE2.

 

 

The ship departed Jan. 8 from New York on the first leg of its 106-day cruise around the world. It was to leave San Francisco for Honolulu on Wednesday night.

[Luv2play]

RE: Barf From Queens

 

I wouldn't take a cuise if you paid me. All those people jammed into a confined space. Ugh. Give me wide open beaches with sand in my feet. I know cruise passengers get to go ashore but they always have to get back on board before the sun sets. I'd rather be having my cocktail on terra firma. I have had fun on a chartered gay cruise, however, but that was only four people on a nice sloop, very intimate and you could jump off the back of the boat and snorkle, much more fun IMO. And none of this horror of hundreds of people retching all over the place! :o