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12 Tips For Choosing and Making the Most of a Transatlantic Cruise Crossing

…or you, and help you to make the most of the experience. It is based on my Atlantic Crossing experiences, and from talking to cruise passengers and seeing what the most asked about topics are in the cruise forums. A Transatlantic trip is a crossing, and not a cruise! It’s about the journey itself. Purists will insist that you should never call a transatlantic crossing a “transatlantic cruise”. Especially if you are undertaking one of the scheduled…

Crossing The Atlantic By Ocean Liner. My Cunard Queen Mary 2 Winter Crossing And Ship Review And Video Tour

…ng And Ship Video Review And Tour One of the great journeys of all time is crossing the Atlantic by Ocean Liner. Cunard Queen Mary 2 QM2 Winter Atlantic Day By the late 1940s and into the 1950s, the number of transatlantic liners working the route from various parts of Europe to the United States and Canada had grown to almost 60 a week. The demand to travel between the 2 continents was so huge that lines competed fiercely with more and more grand…

TransAtlantic Crossing Observations on Cunard Queen Mary 2. The Power And Fury of the Atlantic Ocean

Cunaed Queen Mary 2 In Stormy Atlantic Seas Atlantic Crossing Observations on Cunard Queen Mary 2. The Power And Fury of the Atlantic Ocean This article is part of a series of observations about crossing the Atlantic that I am writing while on-board Cunard’s Queen Mary 2. While this series of observations also draws on my previous experiences of crossing the Atlantic at various times of the year, they are mostly influenced by this crossing of the…

Transatlantic Crossing Observations on the Queen Mary 2: The Passengers. Rich? Famous? Fabulous?

…tions that I wrote while on-board the Cunard Queen Mary 2 on a winter transatlantic crossing. For a list of the others in the series, see the end of this article. Cunard Queen Mary 2 Passengers in Insights Lecture As I write this I am sitting in one of the public areas having a coffee. It is quite early in the morning and I am enjoying the peace and pace of the Crossing. It amuses me that over the sound system the theme song “My Heart Will Go On”…

10 Smart Things To Do If Crossing The Atlantic on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2

…If Crossing The Atlantic on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 On my first Cunard Transatlantic crossing, an English couple on the restaurant table next to me were desperate to get off the ship. They hadn’t understood what they had signed up for and had to endure another five sea days before New York. I also met an Australian couple that hadn’t appreciated what was required of them on a crossing and were unhappy as it was not for them. I’ve done five Cunard A…

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Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic Crossing. Day-by-Day Experience and Tips.

…s. Tuesday 14 April Joining the ship in New York for our Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic Crossing to the UK We had been staying in the Ritz Carlton at Battery Park in New York for the weekend before joining the Queen Mary 2 for the 6 night Transatlantic Crossing Eastwards from New York to Southampton. It was, therefore, very exciting when we went to the lounge for breakfast to see the ship docked across the river in Brooklyn. I took a snap from the lou…

3 Biggest Cunard Transatlantic Crossing Fears Explored

…plored There are seven back-to-back sea days on a Cunard Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic crossing. Not surprisingly, one big fear many have about doing a transatlantic is getting bored with little to occupy them. I too was apprehensive about the one I have just done, as after many sea-day heavy cruises since cruising resumed, I was getting bored on sea days. Join me as I look at this and the two other biggest fears people tell me they have about doing…

Cunard Transatlantic Crossings By Ship : The History and The Heritage

…ng Service using an Ocean Liner. This article explores the history of transatlantic crossings and Cunard. Cunard Queen Elizabeth 2 New York. Photo by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stc4blues Cunard is the only line in the world that still runs a regular scheduled Transatlantic Crossing service. Today they use the unique and iconic Queen Mary 2, which was designed to be able to cope with the harshness of the route. This makes Cunard different, and u…

Caribbean Cruise Part 7: Crossing the Atlantic to the UK

Caribbean Cruise Part 7: Crossing the Atlantic to the UK

…on the photo or links to view all the photos Today is the first of 5 days crossing the Atlantic from Antigua to the Atlantic island of Madeira, where we stop for half a day before carrying on for 3 days to Southampton (our final stop). We woke during the night noticing that it was fairly “rocky”. Although the sea looks pretty calm especially versus the huge waves experience crossing the Atlantic on the QE2, there is apparently a swell causing the…

Transatlantic Crossing Observations On Queen Mary 2: The Ocean in Motion and Seasickness

…le on a stormy winter crossing! Here I am on the first morning of our transatlantic crossing from Southampton to New York on the stunning Cunard Queen Mary 2. I am sitting in the Grills Concierge Lounge on Deck 9 while Mark, who is travelling with me, sleeps off the effects of the seasickness injection that he had to have this morning. The TV screen in the lounge is showing that we are in the midst of a Force 8 Gale, and the sea is classified as “…

Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Lounge Heathrow. Best Airline Lounge Ever

…ounge of the same sort of dramatic style and size. Read more on their blog: click here Or watch this 3 minute video someone has done of the whole lounge: Read my review of Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Seats and cabin: click here Virgin Atlantic Lounge at London Heathrow Virgin Atlantic Lounge at London Heathrow Virgin Atlantic Lounge at London Heathrow Virgin Atlantic Lounge at London Heathrow Virgin Atlantic Lounge at London Heathrow Virgin Atlant…