Last Chance to Farewell QE2 – the Final World Cruise
Australians will need to be as swift as the world’s fastest ocean liner, QE2, to secure a place aboard the legendary ship’s final world cruise early next year.
After sailing the Seven Seas for more than 40 years, QE2 will embark on her 26th and final world voyage in January 2008 before leaving the Cunard fleet in November 2008 to become a luxury floating hotel in Dubai.
Limited space is still available on legs of QE2’s farewell world voyage, which will see the 70,327-ton ‘grand dame’ pay goodbye visits to Sydney (February 24-25), Hobart (February 27), Melbourne (February 29), Adelaide (March 2), Albany (March 4) and Perth (March 5).
QE2’s swansong arrival in Sydney on February 24 will come exactly 30 years to the day since her first visit to the harbour city on February 24, 1978, and will also coincide with a spectacular visit to Sydney of Cunard’s latest Queen, the grand new 90,000-ton Queen Victoria.
The rendezvous of Cunard’s oldest and newest Queens is expected to rival the spectacular meeting of Queen Mary 2 and QE2 in Sydney on February 20 this year.
Fares for QE2 fans who want to sail to or from Australia during her last world voyage are available from:
** A$4471 per person* for an 18-night sector from Santiago to Sydney, departing February 6, 2008, and visiting Easter Island, Tahiti, Tonga and Auckland
** A$6624 per person* for a 35-night leg from Sydney to Los Angeles, departing February 25, 2008, and sailing around southern Australia to Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China, Japan and Hawaii.
An icon of ocean travel, QE2 has pampered more than 2.5 million passengers, including hundreds of celebrities, and sailed almost 5.5 million nautical miles – more than any ship in history and equivalent to travelling to the moon and back 12 times.
Launched by Her Majesty The Queen in September 1967, QE2 remains the world’s fastest – and most famous – ocean liner, capable of speeds of 32.5 knots or 60km/h. The ‘greyhound of the seas’ can also sail backwards (19 knots or 35km/h) faster than most ships can sail forward.
Bookings or more information are available via travel agents or Cunard Line in Australia on 13 24 41 or visit www.cunardline.com.au
* Fares based on twin share accommodation. Subject to availability. Conditions apply.
Report by The Mole
John Alwyn-Jones
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