The New Queen Mary 2: Just Too Much?
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 02.26.04 | 9:05 PM ET
While some travel writers are complaining that the new $800 million Cunard ocean liner doesn’t offer passengers enough glamour—see the recent Los Angeles Times review below—others wonder whether the ship offers too much of everything. Boston Globe Staff Writer Tom Haines was on board for the maiden voyage, amid the champagne and foie gras, and the passengers paying up to $37,499 each for luxury cabins. “On its own, the QM2 would be but a ship of dreams, offering passengers the renovated past while taking them to nice places,” he writes. “But as the biggest, most expensive of all pleasure ships on the sea, the Queen Mary 2 becomes the loudest champion of a particular philosophy: that the world is to be consumed by the relative well-to-do, sheltered in comfort. In the words spoken by a silver-haired man from England as he enjoys a smoke in the ship’s cigar lounge and ponders a trip aboard QM2 to Rio de Janeiro: ‘I’ve always wanted to go to South America. But it’s just so dangerous.’”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
