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[ 11-23-2002: Message edited by: usha ]
I loved the line :As a special bonus, for $20 you can now buy one of the canvas bags that Cunard used to provide for free when you first arrived at you cabin.
[ 11-26-2002: Message edited by: WhiteStar ]
quote:Originally posted by PC:...any new measures on QE2 to prevent/thwart terrorist attacks...
I can tell you that ship visits and boarding passes for the QE2 are almost impossible to obtain unless you are in the travel trade. Security at Southampton is a tighter, too.
The only flaw in this security curtain is that terrorists might well be ships crew, dock workers, Travel agents or paying passengers?
quote:Originally posted by PC:.. any new measures on QE2 to prevent/thwart terrorist attacks, like no more visitors on board, armed security guards...
About the only significant change I noticed was that they scanned our passports at check-in and it looked like they were checking the info against an external database. I realize that wouldn't do much unless you were traveling on a passport that was being watched but it was new to me.
Also, don't want to share details of how we did it, but we were able to get our bags on board without having any cruise documents (...we were last minute replacements for another family and never actually got a packet of cruise documents). Hopefully they were examined/x-rayed prior to them being put on the ship.
We did notice there were Coast Guard vessels - small ones - around when we departed and returned to NYC.
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