Queen Mary

Would be fun to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show on board.

This ship has so much history (and has the been the setting for many movies and TV shows, including the X-Files!). It also has quite a few ghosts, apparently.

There is a lavish champagne brunch on Sundays, and you can even stay in the same suite that Winston Churchill used. Definitely worth a second visit.

The New Year’s Eve thing looks like fun…

Went here after dinner in long beach. Very cool place to visit. Stand on the platform outside of the bar and take a picture of the colored bridge across the bow.

My favorite thing here is the WWII exhibit. Also, I saw the Titanic travelling exhibit while it was there, which I really liked. Ghosts and legends was pretty cool too, showed you some famous parts of the ship you don’t normally see.

My husband and I just got married and spent our wedding night on the Queen Mary. It’s got a very spooky quality about it because there are portions of the ship that are just dead silent. It throws you off a bit, especially if you are from a metropolitan area and have become used to white noise.

Our room was on B-deck and we spent 170.00 for it which made the broken bathroom toilet and towel hanger, non-working lights and broken phone really inconvenient. Still I would love to go back, but I’d really like for the service quality to be of a higher standard.

I was with my wild girlfriend, who knew the ship well because she’d worked several events held on board. It was late at night, and we explored all sorts of off-limits places, including inside the ship’s hull!

My then-teenaged kids were with us and they thought it was a blast to break the rules, family-style. I’d never have done this on my own but have to admit it was a thrill.

I was just there this past week. We saw the famous swimming pool where the little girl often makes an appearance. We did not see her. We went into the lockerroom area to experience the vortex and blue light … it was the first tour of the day that supposedbly did not experience the blue light, although one of the men in the group said he was feeling cold and dizzy.

Around Door 13 in the bowels of the ship where “John” was crushed by a door nearly 40 years ago, there is a TV down there that is unpluuged. I guess John likes to turn on the TV even when it unplugged. While we were there it tried to come on a couple of times. Was it John? I don’t know. I am a bit skeptical.

The quaint shopping area had a florist where I worked for a short time. Delivered flowers to the Wedding Chapel and reception rooms and once in a while a vactioner had ordered them for their rooms. The Queen Mary is rumored to be haunted. The walls on the various levels are lined with interesting old photo’s and historical facts. There was a bit of controversy with the town of Long Beach and the owners about taxes.

Unless you’re an Anglophile, or are deeply interested in World War II history or big oceanliners, it just a big, boring ship that goes nowhere. There is not that much to do on the Queen Mary so you’ll see everything worth seeing in a couple of hours.

I’ve been to a convention on the Queen Mary, and that was okay. It also might be nice to spend one night in the hotel on the Queen Mary, but remember that the most of the rooms are pretty small, so most people wouldn’t want to use the Queen Mary as their headquarters for a tourist visit to Southern California.

The best thing about the Queen Mary is the very good (but expensive) Sunday brunch. I’ve also heard good things about dining in the Sir Winston restaurant, but I’ve never done it.