Cruise Ship: QUEEN VICTORIA
DESCRIPTION
Cunard Line has announced that its new 85,000-ton cruise
ship, which is scheduled to enter service in 2005, will be named Queen
Victoria.
Dedicated to the British cruise market, Queen Victoria will be the second
largest Cunarder ever built. SVF Cruises
can offer some great Cunard
discount cruises.
FACILITIES
The on-board menus, entertainment and lecture programme will be geared
to British tastes and the currency will be sterling. Queen Victoria will
fly the red ensign; she will have the name of her home port, Southampton,
on her stern and she will have a British Captain and Officers.
SPECIFICATIONS
Queen Victoria will enter service in the company’s
165th anniversary and will operate cruises to and from Southampton
to the Mediterranean,
the Canaries, Northern Europe and the Caribbean. She will join the world
famous Queen Elizabeth 2 and the elegant Caronia. The 1,968-passenger
vessel will feature a covered wraparound promenade deck, a forward-facing
observation lounge, a large Lido pool with a retractable magrodome, and
ten of the twelve passenger decks will be served by exterior glass-walled
lifts. Like QE2 and QM2, the liner will have a Queens Grill, offering
single-seating gourmet dining. Queen Victoria will offer a wide range
of accommodation, large standard outside cabins (170 sq ft) and a high
percentage of balcony cabins (67%) -bringing new levels of luxury and
choice to the British passenger. |