Having recently seen her in Sydney and talked to some passengers who were on part of the world cruise she was said to be somewhat tired inside and certainly her charcoal hull was in need of a complete repaint. The superstructure is marred by patch strengthening round many of the windows.

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There is line drawing of the new look sun deck which seems to have an awning extending aft from the superstructure which carries the name of the ship.

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Anybody got a scan? Thanks for sharing Peter.

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Also important is to fix the air conditioning and improve the signage. It would help if each stairtower was clearly labelled and had a different color scheme so you know where you are in the vertical habitrail.

It would be nice if the promenades on the quarter and upper deck had different color schemes for better orientation.

The SSNorway by contrast one has to try to get lost since the layout is logical and intuitive.

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Anybody got a scan? Thanks for sharing Peter.

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It would also be terrific if they did up the Goldenb Lion and made the promenade area there either a part of the room or a separate Winter Garden promenade instead of what now looks like an airport corridor. Finally, anything to make the Grand Lounge an actual lounge and actually grand would be terrific.

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QE2 changes and adapts to suit her environment and the ever changing world. I summarised this here...

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I wonder if one of the 101 touches will be the re-opening of the outdoor pool currently buried in the middle of the Lido?

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I assume you are talking about the former outdoor pool on Quarter Deck. This was a pool with dreadful splash characteristics due to its bad design. Like the One Deck pool it was narrower at one end than the other. Unlike the One Deck pool, the narrow end was the shallow end rather than the deep end and it was this fact that made it such a terrible splasher. On many occasions the Quarter Deck pool had to be emptied while One Deck pool was filled with people.

After the Magrodome was added in the 1983 refit, there were times when water from the pool was splashing off the underside of the dome. After a few incidents in which passengers in formal attire were drenched while gathered in the Club Lido, Cunard adopted the policy of emptying the pool at 6 pm every night.

The Quarter Deck pool should not be "re-opened" unless it is rebuilt....it just wouldn't be worth the effort.

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Brian_O, I believe the magradome was added in the 1986 Bremerhaven refit, not in 1983.

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No. It was definitely added in the 1983 refit to complete the Club Lido project that had been started in the July-August 1982 post-Falklands refit. Between the time the Magrodome was added and the 1986-87 Bremehavern refit, I made 9 voyages on QE2 and spent a lot of time under the dome ... just ask the bartenders.

In the 1986-87 Bremerhaven only minor cosmetic changes were made on Quarter Deck. As far as public rooms were concerned that refit concentrated on the Upper Deck and Boat Decks which underwent major changes including lengthening of the aft superstructure. The Signals Deck and Sports Deck (now known as the Sun Deck) also saw the addition of more penthouses between the funnel and the original penthouses.

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The article described in p.133 - P.135(published in 1985) with some photos.

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CAPTAIN RONALD W WARWICK
MASTER DESIGNATE, QUEEN MARY 2

During his association with the QE2 he originated the first authoritative book about the liner which was published in 1985.

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Originally posted by vikingcrown:
I stand corrected. On the video "Around the World in 80 Days on the QE2", I thought the cruise was in 1985, and there was definately no magradome. Can someone tell me the correct date of the world cruise on the video?

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I have not seen the video so I cannot tell you the exact year. However, since there was no Magradome it had to be 1982 or earlier, if it was a true around the world cruise. In 1983 QE2 did not make an around the world cruise.....instead, she made a circle cruise of the Pacific Ocean (just as she had in 1978).

The 1983 Pacific Circle cruise was featured on a 6-hour BBC TV series hosted by Alan Whicker which was shown in the USA on PBS. On this cruise QE2 had the "pearl" grey hull and the funnel was painted in Cunard colours; it was QE2's only so-called world cruise with the funnel in Cunard colours before the Magradome was added.

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P.S. to Ocean Liners: While the information concerning the timing of the addition of the Magradome is correct in Ron Warwick's book (1985 edition),

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Well, I refered not only " QE2 " but also " Atlantic Liners of the Cunard Line " in P.231

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Well, I refered not only " QE2 " but also " Atlantic Liners of the Cunard Line " in P.231

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I wasn't contradicting you, simply pointing out that there are errors in that particular book, some of which might have been or might not have been corrected in later editions.

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