As someone that has ADHD I cannot tell you how much I love your very detailed walk through and tips. This will help me so much so when we get to sail on QM2 next year I'll be ready to go having lots of this in my long term memory. Thank you both!
Hi Jake, thank you so much, we are glad you enjoyed this and that it will be helpful your sailing on QM2 next year. Let us know how you get on when you cruise on her. Have a lovely day, Linzi & Mark
Most tours of QM2 cut the travel, so you see the spaces, but not how they link, this is by far the best on youtube (and trust me i have hyperobsessed) when it actually comes to finding your bearings
Thank you Chris. That is very kind. We film that way for that very reason. When we watched ship tours ourselves it is what we look for too, which us why we film that way. Have a lovely day. Linzi and Mark
Thanks Emma. She is such a lovely ship and we'd love to do a TA on her too. It was fantastic going to the Fjords on her but you can tell she was built for doing the transatlantic in style.
We've always had the sentiment that we are showing what we saw onboard in our videos Bob & Holly, and not what someone else shot. There's nothing wrong with using Stock Footage, and some of it is spectacular, and beyond what we could shoot, or have permission to shoot, but it is not ours, and so we don't use it.
I enjoyed this so much, as well as the rest of the QM2 videos in this series. I plan to sail on this ship late next year and I'm so excited for it that I can hardly contain myself! Thanks again!
Thank you so much Alex. You are going to love QM2, and hopefully you will put your slant on her on your channel too (which we love by the way). Thanks again for taking time to let us know you enjoyed the series, and have a lovely day, Linzi & Mark
That upper deck on the outside is a viewing platform for when the ship goes under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York. The ship “almost” touches and that platform is the highest point on the ship that you see it
How have I just stumbled upon this video now? Hello! I've used this to try and understand what QM2 looked like pre-refit, and I'm really pleasantly surprised that she appears to be in really good condition here. The refit seems to have just refreshed the ship, and made her feel nice and modern, but she's looking great here - great tour!
he he he, maybe UA-cam was hiding it from you Fraser 🤣 Apart from the Thermal Spa area, she looked lovely when we were on, and just a few worn carpets in a few areas, but mostly, as you've seen, she looked gorgeous. The new theatre screen looks a nice addition though. Hope you are keeping well. Linzi & Mark
Thank you for showing additional areas on Deck 2 & Deck3. As my staterooms are on those decks on my future cruises. Excellent video and I'll watch it again before I go on my cruises. Looking forward to your "ship tips"!
You are really welcome Sabrina. You are going to love QM2, and definitely check out Linzi's QM2 tips video for the navigating around the ship tip (even if you don't watch any of the rest of them) as it makes get round QM2 so much easier. Have a lovely day, Linzi & Mark
Those numbers stand for Life Raft Station. It's the evacuation point for those who will be getting into life rafts. Generally the crew, but passengers if needed.
Thank you for confirming that. After the question was asked in the video I googled what a 'davit' is thinking it might shed some light. It's actually 'a small crane on board a ship, especially one of a pair for suspending or lowering a lifeboat'. Every day's a school day. BTW, I love seeing the chests and cabinets on the decks on Cunard ships holding the life jackets - so reassuring! (no, really...)😂
he he he, we know what you mean about the life jackets, we have commented on them ourselves on there too. Thanks for confirming what that was, we hadn't googled it ourselves, and as you said, every day is a school day 😁 Thank you, and have a lovely day, Linzi & Mark
Fantastic tour Mark! There were a couple of places we didn’t even know were there that you showed & we were on for 2weeks! Didn’t know you could sit in the Veranda & just have drinks either & we ate there twice! Plus we sat in Kings Court for a snack one afternoon & until seeing your video never realised that was the exact same place where we ate for the Alternative meals…maybe I had had too many cocktails to notice 🤪
Thank you so much Adele. We have to admit, if we hadn't filmed the tour, we would have probably missed some of them too. It is well done to Cunard, that they make the alternative dining venues not look like the buffet in Kings Court, we've been to some on other cruise lines, and it is pretty much the same in the evening when you are paying more to sit there. Linzi & Mark
Sir Samuels was given prominent 'Godiva' branding during the 2016 'remastering' refit [same time as the single staterooms replaced casino space & the old photo gallery, and the deck 13 staterooms added. The Godiva branding was still prominent November 2022.
Thank you Dave. We knew it had been replaced but wasn’t sure when. Will be interesting to see if they remove the left over Godiva stuff in this next dry dock.
Excellent tour, and very informative I have just got off the same cruise and i had also missed out some of those areas. So i will have to book again so i can see them 😂. I did see you several times round the ship.
Thank you so much. It is so easy to miss things on these ships, as you will have gathered, one of us missed a few of them too :) If you see us on a future cruise, please do come and say hi. Linzi & Mark
I was going to say hi on the last night i was sat behind you with my mother, but as i got up another couple came to sit with you at the bar, so didn’t want to interrupt Next time i will do if our paths cross again. I loved that ship thanks again Debi
Sorry for our delayed reply for some reason UA-cam held your reply for review and we hadn't noticed. Debi if you see us again come over, even if we have anyone else with us. We met up with a couple of our Facebook group members on the ship and suspect that is who was sat with us, so you would have been absolutely welcome to join us.
Ask as many questions as you like :) The normally post the dinner menu for Britannia up straight after Lunch service has ended. However if you go into the restaurant, normally at any point in the day, they will show you the menu for the evening if you ask them
Was actually on the same voyage as you guys,, love the QM2. We were grills and you would have been welcome to look around if I had seen you guys, actually afternoon tea is better in the ballroom than grills lounge, more of an occasion 😊
It was amazing. Met some great people and spent a lot of time on deck 8, the morning showers always seemed to clear up by lunchtime, Norway was amazing, sail aways were a bit windy :-) didn’t want to leave …..
We absolutely did not want to leave either, and all the worse when friends of ours were boarding too for the 3 nighter, we could absolutely have stayed on. We got so lucky with the weather on the cruise, and have some great time lapse that we shot going into Olden and Bergen, which we will put up somewhere at some point, they were both stunning to sail into. Linzi & Mark
As someone that has ADHD I cannot tell you how much I love your very detailed walk through and tips. This will help me so much so when we get to sail on QM2 next year I'll be ready to go having lots of this in my long term memory. Thank you both!
Hi Jake, thank you so much, we are glad you enjoyed this and that it will be helpful your sailing on QM2 next year. Let us know how you get on when you cruise on her.
Have a lovely day,
Linzi & Mark
Most tours of QM2 cut the travel, so you see the spaces, but not how they link, this is by far the best on youtube (and trust me i have hyperobsessed) when it actually comes to finding your bearings
Thank you Chris. That is very kind. We film that way for that very reason. When we watched ship tours ourselves it is what we look for too, which us why we film that way.
Have a lovely day. Linzi and Mark
Ooo!! So excited to see this, I spend 3 days onboard a long time ago but I’d love to do a proper transatlantic 🥳❤️
Thanks Emma. She is such a lovely ship and we'd love to do a TA on her too. It was fantastic going to the Fjords on her but you can tell she was built for doing the transatlantic in style.
"no stock images are used" Just brilliant, and imo, the way to go.
We've always had the sentiment that we are showing what we saw onboard in our videos Bob & Holly, and not what someone else shot. There's nothing wrong with using Stock Footage, and some of it is spectacular, and beyond what we could shoot, or have permission to shoot, but it is not ours, and so we don't use it.
I enjoyed this so much, as well as the rest of the QM2 videos in this series. I plan to sail on this ship late next year and I'm so excited for it that I can hardly contain myself! Thanks again!
Thank you so much Alex. You are going to love QM2, and hopefully you will put your slant on her on your channel too (which we love by the way).
Thanks again for taking time to let us know you enjoyed the series, and have a lovely day, Linzi & Mark
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That upper deck on the outside is a viewing platform for when the ship goes under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York. The ship “almost” touches and that platform is the highest point on the ship that you see it
Wow. Thank you for that. We've sailed under that bridge before but to do it from their on QM2 would be amazing.
How have I just stumbled upon this video now? Hello! I've used this to try and understand what QM2 looked like pre-refit, and I'm really pleasantly surprised that she appears to be in really good condition here.
The refit seems to have just refreshed the ship, and made her feel nice and modern, but she's looking great here - great tour!
he he he, maybe UA-cam was hiding it from you Fraser 🤣
Apart from the Thermal Spa area, she looked lovely when we were on, and just a few worn carpets in a few areas, but mostly, as you've seen, she looked gorgeous.
The new theatre screen looks a nice addition though.
Hope you are keeping well.
Linzi & Mark
Thank you for showing additional areas on Deck 2 & Deck3. As my staterooms are on those decks on my future cruises. Excellent video and I'll watch it again before I go on my cruises. Looking forward to your "ship tips"!
You are very welcome :) So glad you enjoy the video, and ship tips next Sunday!
Linzi & Mark
Thanks for the thorough tour. I'll be on QM2 for 21 days in January, so it is great to get oriented before I even get on the ship.
You are really welcome Sabrina. You are going to love QM2, and definitely check out Linzi's QM2 tips video for the navigating around the ship tip (even if you don't watch any of the rest of them) as it makes get round QM2 so much easier.
Have a lovely day, Linzi & Mark
I like the fake lampost and fire hydrant on the dogs deck for them to pee on 😂
They almost make you want to take a dog on the cruise with you 😂
Those numbers stand for Life Raft Station. It's the evacuation point for those who will be getting into life rafts. Generally the crew, but passengers if needed.
Thank you Stu, that makes completely sense now.
Have a lovely week, Linzi & Mark
Thank you for confirming that. After the question was asked in the video I googled what a 'davit' is thinking it might shed some light. It's actually 'a small crane on board a ship, especially one of a pair for suspending or lowering a lifeboat'. Every day's a school day. BTW, I love seeing the chests and cabinets on the decks on Cunard ships holding the life jackets - so reassuring! (no, really...)😂
he he he, we know what you mean about the life jackets, we have commented on them ourselves on there too.
Thanks for confirming what that was, we hadn't googled it ourselves, and as you said, every day is a school day 😁
Thank you, and have a lovely day, Linzi &
Mark
I love this ship. The best ❤
It is definitely one of our favourite ever.
Great video.
Thank you Wellard, glad you enjoyed it.
Linzi & Mark
"If there's a loo, there's something to do." If you ever open a merch store, that must be on a T-shirt!
That will absolutely appear on future merch 😂
Fantastic tour Mark! There were a couple of places we didn’t even know were there that you showed & we were on for 2weeks! Didn’t know you could sit in the Veranda & just have drinks either & we ate there twice!
Plus we sat in Kings Court for a snack one afternoon & until seeing your video never realised that was the exact same place where we ate for the Alternative meals…maybe I had had too many cocktails to notice 🤪
Thank you so much Adele. We have to admit, if we hadn't filmed the tour, we would have probably missed some of them too.
It is well done to Cunard, that they make the alternative dining venues not look like the buffet in Kings Court, we've been to some on other cruise lines, and it is pretty much the same in the evening when you are paying more to sit there.
Linzi & Mark
Sir Samuels was given prominent 'Godiva' branding during the 2016 'remastering' refit [same time as the single staterooms replaced casino space & the old photo gallery, and the deck 13 staterooms added. The Godiva branding was still prominent November 2022.
Thank you Dave. We knew it had been replaced but wasn’t sure when. Will be interesting to see if they remove the left over Godiva stuff in this next dry dock.
She has those wide open deck spaces because she is an oceanliner.
Thanks Tony.
The numbers painted on the walls at the back of the ship are where the crew muster before going to their rafts. LRS stands for Life Raft Station.
Thanks Steve 👍
Excellent tour, and very informative I have just got off the same cruise and i had also missed out some of those areas. So i will have to book again so i can see them 😂. I did see you several times round the ship.
Thank you so much. It is so easy to miss things on these ships, as you will have gathered, one of us missed a few of them too :)
If you see us on a future cruise, please do come and say hi.
Linzi & Mark
I was going to say hi on the last night i was sat behind you with my mother, but as i got up another couple came to sit with you at the bar, so didn’t want to interrupt Next time i will do if our paths cross again. I loved that ship thanks again Debi
Sorry for our delayed reply for some reason UA-cam held your reply for review and we hadn't noticed.
Debi if you see us again come over, even if we have anyone else with us. We met up with a couple of our Facebook group members on the ship and suspect that is who was sat with us, so you would have been absolutely welcome to join us.
@@SuiteNatured Hi. Thanks i will come over next time if i see you on my travels. Keep up the good vlogs. Xx
Sorry to ask another question, do they post the dinner menu outside of Britannia in the morning or after lunch?
Ask as many questions as you like :)
The normally post the dinner menu for Britannia up straight after Lunch service has ended. However if you go into the restaurant, normally at any point in the day, they will show you the menu for the evening if you ask them
Was actually on the same voyage as you guys,, love the QM2. We were grills and you would have been welcome to look around if I had seen you guys, actually afternoon tea is better in the ballroom than grills lounge, more of an occasion 😊
Oh what a shame, it would have been lovely to see you. Hope you enjoyed the cruise.
It was amazing. Met some great people and spent a lot of time on deck 8, the morning showers always seemed to clear up by lunchtime, Norway was amazing, sail aways were a bit windy :-) didn’t want to leave …..
We absolutely did not want to leave either, and all the worse when friends of ours were boarding too for the 3 nighter, we could absolutely have stayed on.
We got so lucky with the weather on the cruise, and have some great time lapse that we shot going into Olden and Bergen, which we will put up somewhere at some point, they were both stunning to sail into.
Linzi & Mark
QM2 is a oceanliner... different lay out. Not a cruise ship.
That's why it was so interesting for us to film for this tour 😀 hope you enjoyed it.
thats why pooldecks are different... no high up.. but more midship lower decks. Because of balance.
Sir samuels / Godiva will be changed during refit in October I have heard.
That makes sense that it would Mark.
Thank you.
You are welcome, thank you for watching Chuck.
Linzi & Mark