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Queen Mary Foundation: Sun Deck Gallery
To Whom It May Concern:
While not a cruise per se, we are talking the historic Queen Mary here. We received this information from the Queen Mary Foundation itself, and thought it would be of interest to certain readers of this newsgroup as well. Happy sailing, John Sisker, SHIP-TO-SHORE CRUISE AGENCY® (714) 536-3850 or toll free at (800) 724-6644 & (Agency No. 714.536.3850) www.shiptoshorecruise.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 13, 2007 Long Beach, CA SUN DECK GALLERY ABOARD THE QUEEN MARY TO PREMIERE NEW 'ROCKIN HOLLYWOOD' EXHIBIT JUNE 15-SEPTEMBER 3, 2007 Presenting 80 Images of Classic Rock & Movie Legends by Photographer Michael Childers The Sun Deck Gallery aboard the historic Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, is proud to present Rockin' Hollywood, a new exhibition featuring more than 80 images of classic rock and movie legends by photographer Michael Childers. The exhibit will open June 15 and run through September 3, 2007. An opening reception with Michael Childers and celebrities featured in exhibit photos is scheduled at the Gallery on Sunday afternoon, June 17, from 4:00 until 7:00 p.m., and the public is welcome to attend free of charge. The exhibition is part of a year-long 40th anniversary celebration of the Queen Mary's 1967 arrival in Long Beach. Childers, one of the entertainment industry's most renowned and highly respected portrait, fashion and fine art photographers, began his career in the sixties, and continues to influence the world of art photography today. "Who better to feature in our gallery during this anniversary year than Michael Childers," said Queen Mary President and CEO Howard Bell. "He has been Rockin' Hollywood (thus the exhibit title) for years with powerful, insightful, insider photography of his friends, and his body of work reflects the same 40 years that the Queen Mary has been here in Long Beach," Bell continued. "Childers' images of art, film, TV and rock stars perfectly capture the popular culture of the era." "My work has always been difficult to categorize," Michael Childers commented, "because I never stuck with one genre of photography. There are so many areas that I explore on film - movement with great ballet dancers, explosive moments from great theatre productions, portraiture, nudes, flowers and interiors among them." Movies were the photographer's childhood passion and infused his dreams and fantasies. Early in his career he was invited to work for Sir Laurence Olivier's National Theatre in London, an experience that allowed him to work alongside and observe some of the greatest acting talent of the last century. Shortly after that, he documented the extraordinary explosion of artistic expression in fashion, music and film in New York City in the early 1970s as one of the founding photographers of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. Also in the '70s in Hollywood, he photographed a group of unique, young talents with very strong and different personalities, his friends then and now, who have become our current generation of film legends. To quote artist David Hockney, "Michael Childers has created a living record of Hollywood people he actually knew and admired. An insider on the edge - a good position to be in." The animated, screaming image that leaps from the Rockin' Hollywood exhibit graphics (Stephen Brogdon Design) is a recent gelatin silver print of Henry Rollins photographed in Hollywood in 2000. The 80 photographs included in the Rockin' Hollywood exhibit cover a wide spectrum of Childers' portraiture from Mae West to Natalie Wood and Lily Tomlin, from Cat Stevens to Rod Stewart, Rock Hudson, Elton John, Andy Warhol, Ringo Starr, George Hurrell and David Hockney. A very special image of Sir Laurence Olivier aboard Natalie Wood's yacht shows the Queen Mary in the background. Arnold Schwarzenegger as a young man at Muscle Beach is also included alongside Al Pacino and Mel Gibson. Grace Jones, Cher, Demi Moore, Raquel Welch, Michelle Pfeiffer - the list goes on and on. The Exhibit is being curated by Dr. Lou D'Elia of Pancho Barnes Enterprises who also produced the Sun Deck Gallery's first exhibit, "Lights! Camera! Glamour!" - featuring the pioneering work of Hollywood glamour idiom photographer, George Hurrell. Architect Michael Salazar of Pancho Barnes Enterprises designed the flexible, new exhibit space that will premiere with the Rockin' Hollywood show. Limited merchandise will be available for purchase in the Sun Deck Gallery including signed Michael Childers prints and an exhibition brochure. It is the mission of the new Sun Deck Gallery to present unique exhibitions of fine art photography and explore the Queen Mary's historic photo archive. The Gallery is open daily to the public free of charge; and hours are 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and Noon until 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. To learn more about Michael Childers and his work, go to www.michaelchildersphotography.com. For additional information about the Queen Mary, please go to www.queenmary.com. Michael Childers Biography... Born in North Carolina, Childers attended the UCLA Film School where he directed student films and began his photography career by studying with Robert Heineken and Edmund Teske. Childers created the mixed media work for the record-breaking run of the hit off-Broadway musical "Oh! Calcutta!" for Kenneth Tynan. It was Tynan who subsequently invited Michael to work for Sir Laurence Olivier's National Theater in London. He remains the only American photographer invited to photograph productions at the National Theater. He went on to become a founding photographer for Andy Warhol's Interview and After Dark magazines. For Dance magazine, he produced many covers including those featuring the Joffrey Ballet, The Royal Ballet and the Alvin Ailey Dance Company as well as co-authored a book, "The World of Bejart." From his Melrose Avenue and Venice Beach studios, Childers photographed over 200 magazine covers including GQ, New York, TV Guide, Esquire, Los Angeles, Elle, Paris Match, Life, London Sunday Times Magazine, and both English and Italian Vogue. He created more than 150 album covers and film posters for major motion picture studios and worked as a special photographer on dozens of films including Grease, Marathon Man, The Year of Living Dangerously, Coal Miner's Daughter, Pennies from Heaven, The Terminator, Hammett, Torch Song Trilogy, Endless Love, The Champ and Oceans 12. Michael has been involved in fund-raising events for AIDS service organizations, breast cancer, foundations for the performing arts, and film organizations since 1989. He founded Divine Design for Project Angel Food, the largest design event on the west coast, now in its twelfth year. In Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New York and palm Springs, events he has founded or helped produce have raised over twelve million dollars and been emceed by such superstars as Lily Tomlin, Bruce Vilanch, Carol Burnett, Lauren Bacall, Marsha Mason, Ali MacGraw and Bette Midler. In 2003 he co-produced The Palm Springs International Film Festival and in Los Angeles he also produced the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Artists) Britannia Awards with Russell Crowe, Peter Weir, Angela Landbury, Hugh Grant, Sandra Bullock, Alan Cummings, Robin Williams and Billy Connelly. Other performers that Michael has brought to the stage for various causes include Joanne Worley, Tim Curry, Lainie Kazan, Stephanie Powers, Michael York, Robin Williams, Billy Connelly, Sandra Bullock, Russell Crowe, Robert Wagner, Angela Lansbury, Lorna Luft, Michael Feinstein, Valarie Pettiford, Jake Heggie, Julie Migenes, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Boney James, Margaret Cho, Lynn Redgrave, Davis Gaines, Jason Grae, Carol Channing and Jennifer Holiday. Michael's work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Marion Museum of Photographic Studies in Santa Fe, the University of California Riverside photographic collections, the Palm Springs Art Museum photographic collection, the Chiat Day Collection in Santa Monica, the Lincoln Center Library of Performing Arts in New York and the Laguna Art Museum. He also produced "An Evening with k. d. lang" held in Palm Springs in November 2006. In 2003, the Palm Springs Art Museum presented a forty year retrospective of Michael's work titled Icons and Legends. The three-month show was visited by over 55,000 people, one of the largest audiences ever recorded by the museum. Michael received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Hollywood Photography at the Temecula Film Festival in September of 2004, and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Hollywood Photography from the Provincetown Film Festival that same year. At the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2006, La Dolce Vita, the photography of Michael Childers, was presented. The same year, the Palm Springs Art Museum presented a Celebration of Three Hollywood Photographers: George Hurrell, Sid Avery and Michael Childers and, in October 2006, the Tom of Finland Foundation inducted Michael into their Hal of Fame for his erotic photography. In early 2007, during the Palm Springs Film Festival, the M Modern gallery presented BLOW UP, exhibiting the work of Michael Childers, William Claxton and Douglas Kirkland. An exhibit titled Rockin' Hollywood, featuring portraits of rock 'n roll icons and Hollywood legends, will open June 15, 2007, in the Sun Deck Gallery aboard the historic Queen Mary in Long Beach. For more information, go to Michael's website at www.michaelchildersphotography.com. Michael Childers' work is exhibited at: National Portrait Gallery, London Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica BGH Gallery, Santa Monica Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles Fahey-Klein Gallery, Los Angeles Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles Trinity Gallery, Atlanta Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA Truro Arts Gallery, Massachusetts Le Salon Prive, Santa Fe Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe Photo San Francisco - International Images Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach The Historic Queen Mary and the Sun Deck Gallery... With the 70th Anniversary Season of the Queen Mary's 1934 launch and 1936 maiden voyage just concluded, the legendary ocean liner is now celebrating the 40th Anniversary of her 1967 final voyage and arrival at her permanent home in Long Beach, California. During her years at sea, the art deco Queen Mary captured the imagination of the public and came to represent the spirit of an era that was characterized by elegance and style. Then, during World War II and after, the Queen Mary served as a heroic troop carrier nicknamed The Grey Ghost transporting more than 800,000 warriors and 25,000 war brides. The Queen Mary, built on the Clyde by Scottish craftsmen, is recognized throughout the world as the last surviving ship of the Golden Age of transatlantic travel. Now permanently docked, yet still afloat, her operation and preservation are entrusted to the RMS Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, public benefit corporation. The new Sun Deck Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition of fine art photography and the exploration of the historic ship's extensive photo archive. The Gallery is located high atop the Queen Mary on the deck of the same name, convenient to historic exhibits, tours, shows and entertainment, fine restaurants, unique shops and leisurely promenades with panoramic views from the open Sun Deck that surrounds the Gallery. |
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Queen Mary Foundation: Sun Deck Gallery
John, do you have any clue about how badly this place sucks?
Nonny John Sisker wrote: To Whom It May Concern: While not a cruise per se, we are talking the historic Queen Mary here. We received this information from the Queen Mary Foundation itself, and thought it would be of interest to certain readers of this newsgroup as well. Happy sailing, John Sisker, SHIP-TO-SHORE CRUISE AGENCY® (714) 536-3850 or toll free at (800) 724-6644 & (Agency No. 714.536.3850) www.shiptoshorecruise.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 13, 2007 Long Beach, CA SUN DECK GALLERY ABOARD THE QUEEN MARY TO PREMIERE NEW 'ROCKIN HOLLYWOOD' EXHIBIT JUNE 15-SEPTEMBER 3, 2007 Presenting 80 Images of Classic Rock & Movie Legends by Photographer Michael Childers The Sun Deck Gallery aboard the historic Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, is proud to present Rockin' Hollywood, a new exhibition featuring more than 80 images of classic rock and movie legends by photographer Michael Childers. The exhibit will open June 15 and run through September 3, 2007. An opening reception with Michael Childers and celebrities featured in exhibit photos is scheduled at the Gallery on Sunday afternoon, June 17, from 4:00 until 7:00 p.m., and the public is welcome to attend free of charge. The exhibition is part of a year-long 40th anniversary celebration of the Queen Mary's 1967 arrival in Long Beach. Childers, one of the entertainment industry's most renowned and highly respected portrait, fashion and fine art photographers, began his career in the sixties, and continues to influence the world of art photography today. "Who better to feature in our gallery during this anniversary year than Michael Childers," said Queen Mary President and CEO Howard Bell. "He has been Rockin' Hollywood (thus the exhibit title) for years with powerful, insightful, insider photography of his friends, and his body of work reflects the same 40 years that the Queen Mary has been here in Long Beach," Bell continued. "Childers' images of art, film, TV and rock stars perfectly capture the popular culture of the era." "My work has always been difficult to categorize," Michael Childers commented, "because I never stuck with one genre of photography. There are so many areas that I explore on film - movement with great ballet dancers, explosive moments from great theatre productions, portraiture, nudes, flowers and interiors among them." Movies were the photographer's childhood passion and infused his dreams and fantasies. Early in his career he was invited to work for Sir Laurence Olivier's National Theatre in London, an experience that allowed him to work alongside and observe some of the greatest acting talent of the last century. Shortly after that, he documented the extraordinary explosion of artistic expression in fashion, music and film in New York City in the early 1970s as one of the founding photographers of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. Also in the '70s in Hollywood, he photographed a group of unique, young talents with very strong and different personalities, his friends then and now, who have become our current generation of film legends. To quote artist David Hockney, "Michael Childers has created a living record of Hollywood people he actually knew and admired. An insider on the edge - a good position to be in." The animated, screaming image that leaps from the Rockin' Hollywood exhibit graphics (Stephen Brogdon Design) is a recent gelatin silver print of Henry Rollins photographed in Hollywood in 2000. The 80 photographs included in the Rockin' Hollywood exhibit cover a wide spectrum of Childers' portraiture from Mae West to Natalie Wood and Lily Tomlin, from Cat Stevens to Rod Stewart, Rock Hudson, Elton John, Andy Warhol, Ringo Starr, George Hurrell and David Hockney. A very special image of Sir Laurence Olivier aboard Natalie Wood's yacht shows the Queen Mary in the background. Arnold Schwarzenegger as a young man at Muscle Beach is also included alongside Al Pacino and Mel Gibson. Grace Jones, Cher, Demi Moore, Raquel Welch, Michelle Pfeiffer - the list goes on and on. The Exhibit is being curated by Dr. Lou D'Elia of Pancho Barnes Enterprises who also produced the Sun Deck Gallery's first exhibit, "Lights! Camera! Glamour!" - featuring the pioneering work of Hollywood glamour idiom photographer, George Hurrell. Architect Michael Salazar of Pancho Barnes Enterprises designed the flexible, new exhibit space that will premiere with the Rockin' Hollywood show. Limited merchandise will be available for purchase in the Sun Deck Gallery including signed Michael Childers prints and an exhibition brochure. It is the mission of the new Sun Deck Gallery to present unique exhibitions of fine art photography and explore the Queen Mary's historic photo archive. The Gallery is open daily to the public free of charge; and hours are 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and Noon until 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. To learn more about Michael Childers and his work, go to www.michaelchildersphotography.com. For additional information about the Queen Mary, please go to www.queenmary.com. Michael Childers Biography... Born in North Carolina, Childers attended the UCLA Film School where he directed student films and began his photography career by studying with Robert Heineken and Edmund Teske. Childers created the mixed media work for the record-breaking run of the hit off-Broadway musical "Oh! Calcutta!" for Kenneth Tynan. It was Tynan who subsequently invited Michael to work for Sir Laurence Olivier's National Theater in London. He remains the only American photographer invited to photograph productions at the National Theater. He went on to become a founding photographer for Andy Warhol's Interview and After Dark magazines. For Dance magazine, he produced many covers including those featuring the Joffrey Ballet, The Royal Ballet and the Alvin Ailey Dance Company as well as co-authored a book, "The World of Bejart." From his Melrose Avenue and Venice Beach studios, Childers photographed over 200 magazine covers including GQ, New York, TV Guide, Esquire, Los Angeles, Elle, Paris Match, Life, London Sunday Times Magazine, and both English and Italian Vogue. He created more than 150 album covers and film posters for major motion picture studios and worked as a special photographer on dozens of films including Grease, Marathon Man, The Year of Living Dangerously, Coal Miner's Daughter, Pennies from Heaven, The Terminator, Hammett, Torch Song Trilogy, Endless Love, The Champ and Oceans 12. Michael has been involved in fund-raising events for AIDS service organizations, breast cancer, foundations for the performing arts, and film organizations since 1989. He founded Divine Design for Project Angel Food, the largest design event on the west coast, now in its twelfth year. In Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New York and palm Springs, events he has founded or helped produce have raised over twelve million dollars and been emceed by such superstars as Lily Tomlin, Bruce Vilanch, Carol Burnett, Lauren Bacall, Marsha Mason, Ali MacGraw and Bette Midler. In 2003 he co-produced The Palm Springs International Film Festival and in Los Angeles he also produced the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Artists) Britannia Awards with Russell Crowe, Peter Weir, Angela Landbury, Hugh Grant, Sandra Bullock, Alan Cummings, Robin Williams and Billy Connelly. Other performers that Michael has brought to the stage for various causes include Joanne Worley, Tim Curry, Lainie Kazan, Stephanie Powers, Michael York, Robin Williams, Billy Connelly, Sandra Bullock, Russell Crowe, Robert Wagner, Angela Lansbury, Lorna Luft, Michael Feinstein, Valarie Pettiford, Jake Heggie, Julie Migenes, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Boney James, Margaret Cho, Lynn Redgrave, Davis Gaines, Jason Grae, Carol Channing and Jennifer Holiday. Michael's work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Marion Museum of Photographic Studies in Santa Fe, the University of California Riverside photographic collections, the Palm Springs Art Museum photographic collection, the Chiat Day Collection in Santa Monica, the Lincoln Center Library of Performing Arts in New York and the Laguna Art Museum. He also produced "An Evening with k. d. lang" held in Palm Springs in November 2006. In 2003, the Palm Springs Art Museum presented a forty year retrospective of Michael's work titled Icons and Legends. The three-month show was visited by over 55,000 people, one of the largest audiences ever recorded by the museum. Michael received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Hollywood Photography at the Temecula Film Festival in September of 2004, and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Hollywood Photography from the Provincetown Film Festival that same year. At the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2006, La Dolce Vita, the photography of Michael Childers, was presented. The same year, the Palm Springs Art Museum presented a Celebration of Three Hollywood Photographers: George Hurrell, Sid Avery and Michael Childers and, in October 2006, the Tom of Finland Foundation inducted Michael into their Hal of Fame for his erotic photography. In early 2007, during the Palm Springs Film Festival, the M Modern gallery presented BLOW UP, exhibiting the work of Michael Childers, William Claxton and Douglas Kirkland. An exhibit titled Rockin' Hollywood, featuring portraits of rock 'n roll icons and Hollywood legends, will open June 15, 2007, in the Sun Deck Gallery aboard the historic Queen Mary in Long Beach. For more information, go to Michael's website at www.michaelchildersphotography.com. Michael Childers' work is exhibited at: National Portrait Gallery, London Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica BGH Gallery, Santa Monica Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles Fahey-Klein Gallery, Los Angeles Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles Trinity Gallery, Atlanta Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA Truro Arts Gallery, Massachusetts Le Salon Prive, Santa Fe Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe Photo San Francisco - International Images Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach The Historic Queen Mary and the Sun Deck Gallery... With the 70th Anniversary Season of the Queen Mary's 1934 launch and 1936 maiden voyage just concluded, the legendary ocean liner is now celebrating the 40th Anniversary of her 1967 final voyage and arrival at her permanent home in Long Beach, California. During her years at sea, the art deco Queen Mary captured the imagination of the public and came to represent the spirit of an era that was characterized by elegance and style. Then, during World War II and after, the Queen Mary served as a heroic troop carrier nicknamed The Grey Ghost transporting more than 800,000 warriors and 25,000 war brides. The Queen Mary, built on the Clyde by Scottish craftsmen, is recognized throughout the world as the last surviving ship of the Golden Age of transatlantic travel. Now permanently docked, yet still afloat, her operation and preservation are entrusted to the RMS Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, public benefit corporation. The new Sun Deck Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition of fine art photography and the exploration of the historic ship's extensive photo archive. The Gallery is located high atop the Queen Mary on the deck of the same name, convenient to historic exhibits, tours, shows and entertainment, fine restaurants, unique shops and leisurely promenades with panoramic views from the open Sun Deck that surrounds the Gallery. -- ---Nonnymus--- You don’t stand any taller by trying to make others appear shorter. |
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Queen Mary Foundation: Sun Deck Gallery
While not a new ship by any means, we found the historic significance of the
Queen Mary both charming and interesting, especially knowing of all the famous people who have sailed upon her. Of course, it does lack the new spick and span look of today modern cruise ships, so if one is expecting everything from a casino to super dinners shows, with the glitz and glitter of Vegas, yes they will indeed be disappointed. However, being a historic monument should overcome some of that. In fact, why not explore the Queen Mary yourself. I took these pictures about a month ago. Just click on... http://picasaweb.google.com:80/jsisker. Happy sailing, John Sisker, SHIP-TO-SHORE CRUISE AGENCY® (714) 536-3850 or toll free at (800) 724-6644 & (Agency No. 714.536.3850) www.shiptoshorecruise.com "Nonnymus" wrote in message ... John, do you have any clue about how badly this place sucks? Nonny |
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Queen Mary Foundation: Sun Deck Gallery
"John Sisker" wrote While not a new ship by any means, we found the historic significance of the Queen Mary both charming and interesting, especially knowing of all the famous people who have sailed upon her. Of course, it does lack the new spick and span look of today modern cruise ships, It also lacks maintenance and some one who knows how to clean. We had a group on the QM before a group cruise and it was one of the worst hotel experiences I have ever endured. The ship itself is falling apart and absolutely filthy. Go into the Grand Salon and shake the heavy draperies... but do it at arm's length because you'll be buried in dust. Service in the restaurant was abysmal and the "deli" was a joke. $6 for a hot dog? Frankly, the group's experience with this "hotel" was so terrible that I wouldn't stay there again if it were offered to me for free. everything from a casino to super dinners shows, with the glitz and glitter of Vegas, yes they will indeed be disappointed. However, being a historic monument should overcome some of that. History doesn't mean anything to me when I am standing in the midst of disrepair and filth. -- George Leppla http://www.CruiseMaster.com October 14, 2007 MOAGC 3 - http://www.moagc-3.com January 20, 2008 - GGC2008 - http://cruisemaster.com/adventure.htm June 5, 2008 9 nt from NJ - http://www.cruisemaster.com/explorer.htm |
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Queen Mary Foundation: Sun Deck Gallery
Hi George,
My wife Deborah and I did stay overnight on the Queen Mary ourselves many years ago, but have not done so since. While we had no concerns nor saw any obvious maintenance or cleaning issues at that time, I will be the first to admit that today the Queen Mary is not quite up to par in this department, no-doubt because of budgets. Therefore, what you and others have described is certainly a genuine complaint. Even though we did tour her again recently, we did not do so with a white-glove treatment, purposely looking for things that were wrong. However, we have been hearing of similar concerns from this newsgroup as well. This certainly can't help the Queen Mary Foundation's image for more tours and hotel guests. Likewise, now with the tie-in to Carnival Cruise Line, especially for early check-ins, that is something we all need to be aware of. Since I do have a personal contact because of press releases, and my close location to the Queen Mary itself, it would be interesting to see their take on all this. Perhaps they can reposition some of that budget to address these more important issues. Thanks to you and the others for making this a priority. Happy sailing, John Sisker, SHIP-TO-SHORE CRUISE AGENCY® (714) 536-3850 or toll free at (800) 724-6644 & (Agency No. 714.536.3850) www.shiptoshorecruise.com For current pictures aboard the Queen Mary, click on: http://picasaweb.google.com:80/jsisker. "George Leppla" wrote in message ... "John Sisker" wrote While not a new ship by any means, we found the historic significance of the Queen Mary both charming and interesting, especially knowing of all the famous people who have sailed upon her. Of course, it does lack the new spick and span look of today modern cruise ships, It also lacks maintenance and some one who knows how to clean. We had a group on the QM before a group cruise and it was one of the worst hotel experiences I have ever endured. The ship itself is falling apart and absolutely filthy. Go into the Grand Salon and shake the heavy draperies... but do it at arm's length because you'll be buried in dust. Service in the restaurant was abysmal and the "deli" was a joke. $6 for a hot dog? Frankly, the group's experience with this "hotel" was so terrible that I wouldn't stay there again if it were offered to me for free. everything from a casino to super dinners shows, with the glitz and glitter of Vegas, yes they will indeed be disappointed. However, being a historic monument should overcome some of that. History doesn't mean anything to me when I am standing in the midst of disrepair and filth. |
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