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.