Tokyo, as you know, the QM features ghost tours and they also had a promotion to stay in one of the several "haunted rooms" on board, your choice of about three or four with known spectral activity. He was very quiet when we toured that part. There was a part of the lower deck that was restored as it was as a troop transport. He visited the QM with us on one of our trips when I was young. My uncle came back from WWII on either the QM or the QE, not sure which (actually, he might have gone out on it too). How interesting that your family came out on the QM. Especially the provisions for one's servants to stay out of sight. The room accommodations were interesting, as I noted in the prior post. The decor was about 30 years out-of-date, but the food was pretty good.
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The restaurant was hacked into what had been a public space as part of the renovation into a static attraction, and was not part of the original ship design. We had cocktails and breakfast on board, but no other meals. We had a nice time on board for our last and final stay. It's too bad that none of those plans came about, from what I have heard the DisneySea park is very nice and another would have been a great addition to the SoCal thanks for your kind comments. I never had any idea that Disney was ever involved here. Major and Tokyo, thanks for the posting about the Disney involvement in the QM development. I visited the Queen Mary at least a couple times, while the Spruce Goose was still there, but didn't go see it.
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I know that if they had built that park in Long Beach, it would have been just as cheap as DCA was when it opened, and that it would not have come anywhere close to resembling the "DisneySea" park that they ended up building next to Tokyo Disneyland. Remember when Disney was talking about building a "Disney Seas" park next to the Queen Mary? I wish they had gone ahead with that in Long Beach, instead of building DCA in the DL parking lot. Now, I don't remember who was telling me that, but I don't think they were a marine engineer, so who knows for sure? It made sense when they explained it. They said a ship that size is designed to float and that if you put a concrete foundation under it, it could not withstand it's own weight and would eventually have structural problems or collapse. Major, I thought maybe the Queen Mary was no longer floating anymore, but someone explained to me why it has to float. The stripes at the base of the wall are different color strips of lino laid into the field. Notice the inlaid linoleum, this is the original floor. We shared a bottle in our room that night. There was a wine shop featuring products from a local winery that was unfamiliar to me, but quite good.
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Key rings and coffee cups and less authentic British or Scottish goods. Similar to Disneyland Main Street, there are more In good shape, but the shops' merchandise is very different from what I Special exhibit on Winston Churchill with props from the 2017 movie, Darkest Hour, starring Pictures of the exteriors and other parts of the ship, including the QM before moving to the Convention Center hotel, since 34 years later, Long Beach for another conference, we decided to stay one night on the My wife and I visited the Queen Mary in 1983 for a conference, but we couldn’t afford to stay on board then. The following narrative is from JG, himself:
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The Queen Mary, and once again, he has generously offered to share them with us! Well, as previously mentioned, JG had more photos from his stay aboard Back in May of 2019, I featured a "Special Guest Post" about the Queen Mary, from Gorillas Don't Blog and Meet The World reader and commenter, "JG."