The Queen Mary

We spent a couple of nights on The Queen Mary while on the road last week. You've seen what I ate there and you've seen what we did during the day between the nights on board. There's not much to tell about the rest of our experience in the hotel.

Here's another picture I took of the ship while passing it on our way to Catalina. The window I had to shoot through wasn't perfectly clean and had the sun shining on it.

Wikipedia has a better picture from about the same point of view.

In my earlier post, I pointed out the general area of our room. We checked in at the desk near the bow and had to hike to our room near the stern. It's a looooooong hallway. This picture from in front of our room taken with my phone probably doesn't really show the length very well.

The rooms are long and narrow. This is the view of the bathroom door from the bed end of the room. The door into the room is on the wall to the left of the bathroom door. There's a vanity to the right of the bathroom door.

The walls are very thin. You can hear everything the neighbors do. They got a 7:00 wake-up call each morning. We were already awake at that time. It would have been a bit annoying if we wanted to sleep in. The neighbors were already bustling about by the time they got their call.

Here's the original (but not operational) fan.

(I couldn't tell that the picture was this blurry when I took it.)

At the right of the picture is a door that connects our room to the next room in case we wanted to have a suite. Of course it is locked. The second night we had neighbors in that room. They were unsure what the door was to. They tried and tried to open it. The knob would rattle every few minutes. I wondered in a clear and somewhat loud voice why the neighbors were trying to get into our room. With the thin walls they must have heard me. But that didn't stop them from trying to see what's behind that mysterious door. The next morning there were some more attempts to get through the door.

The portholes weren't locked shut. They're big enough to crawl through but I guess nobody bothers to get a room in order to end it. They must just take the cheaper tour and jump from the Promenade deck.

We had a view of Long Beach.

There was a problem with the air conditioning. The thermostat wasn't controlling it. So the room was very cold. We tried leaving the windows open but that didn't help much. And it let the mosquitos in. I got a bunch of bites that were red and a bit swollen but didn't itch at all. Strange.

They fixed the problem the second night after Jerry asked if there was something that could be done about the temperature.

The bathtub had some knobs that don't do anything these days. Apparently you could bathe in salt water in the good old days. Do cruise ships still use salt water?

The towel was nicely hung on the bar. The fandolded washcloth was tucked in a pocket folded in the hand towel.

It was nice to stay on the Queen Mary. I still think I'd feel too confined to spend time on a real cruise.