Hamburg is having a harbor celebration this summer. To celebrate Cunard has more crossings headed that direction. One is in May, one in July, and one in August. We’re booked on the sailing in July. Who else is?

How do you get from the cruise ship port in Southampton to London after the Queen Mary 2 docks there? Do you take a bus or a train? Is there a car rental agency in Southampton? Does Cunard run a… Continue Reading →

What is the better way to get to England and Germany — Fly there by jet aircraft or take a transatlantic cruise on the Queen Mary 2? Jets have obvious disadvantages: long lines, jet lag, flying at night, airport security,… Continue Reading →

My grandmother used to visit us on Sundays when I was a little girl. She told us all about her cruise ship travels. She always seemed to be sailing here or there. She went everywhere except Egypt. She said that… Continue Reading →

_ If the passenger records before 1960 are in the public domain, how do I access them? Are they online on a special website? Are they in a special library collection? Are they perhaps in Southampton? Do I write somebody?… Continue Reading →

_ I was trying to find out when my now deceased grandmother, Doris Lappe, sailed on Cunard ships before 1975. She discussed her cruises often, but I was a little girl and didn’t bother to write anything down. Cunard says… Continue Reading →

_ On May 1, 1915 at the Cunard Pier in New York — not in Brooklyn — the ship that the passengers boarded was vastly different from the ship passengers board today. There were no shopping arcades. Nor did you… Continue Reading →

_ The QM2 still insists on formal nights when all the ladies are supposed to wear dresses and the gents tuxedos. They emphasize this to the point that they stock formal wear onboard at the shops. Supposedly slacks for ladies… Continue Reading →

_ The Queen Mary II, the transatlantic oceanliner, thrives and survives on nostalgia for the British past. It harkens back to the golden age of ocean liners in the early to mid-twentieth century when Britain ruled the waves and the… Continue Reading →

_ It’s been almost one hundred years since the sinking of the Lusitania off the coast of Ireland in the Irish Sea on May 7, 1915. One hundred years ago Winston Churchill was the First Lord of the Admiralty partially… Continue Reading →