Cunard's Queen Victoria

Cunard’s Queen Victoria has joined RMS Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth at Southampton for a series of cruises from the Solent port.

This follows a 17-day major refurbishment at Harland & Woolf, Belfast, perhaps best known as the building place of Titanic and in much more recent times the home of one of the world’s finest ship museums.  She is the largest cruise ship ever to refit in a UK shipyard and the only Cunarder to have drydocked in Belfast.

Queen Victoria entered service in 2007 (followed by Queen Elizabeth three years later) and comes in at 90,000 tons with a 2,000-guest capacity, not a large ship by modern standards, but with many of the features associated with bygone Cunard liners.

Cunard has published its full three-ship programme for 2023 but has 2024 clearly in focus with the introduction of Queen Anne, 90,000 tonnes and 3,000 passengers.

The 249th Cunarder, it promises to be a truly exceptional ship, environmentally friendly, innovative in terms of passenger comfort but with the classic Cunard heritage.  

Queen Anne’s seven-night maiden voyage to Lisbon starts 4 January 2024 involving an overnight port call allowing passenger’s to visit Lisbon’s UNESCO-listed Belém Tower, the palaces of Sintra and the nightlife of the Barrio Alto. On its return to Southampton, the ship will be joined by Queen Mary 2 and Queen Victoria, marking the first time the three queens will come together.

When booking on 18 May it proved the busiest Cunard reservation day on record.

www.cunard.com/en-gb/cruise-ships/queen-victoria

BTN’s Editor-in-Chief is currently on Queen Victoria at sea to Norway.  Business Travel News next Monday will be brought to you by Jeff Mills, the former Editor of Travel Weekly. jeffreymills@btinternet.com

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