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Gary Bembridge of http://www.TipsForTravellers.com is a Travel Vlog of travel tips to help you to make the most of your precious vacation time and money
Cunard Queen Mary 2 Video Tour Made on Winter Transatlantic Crossing, showing the winter seas and storms and then a video your throughout the ship of all the public rooms, restaurants and some of the decks. For more on Cunard and Cruising visit http://www.tipsfortravellers.com/cruising and follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/garybembridge
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this is Gary beverage from to the club
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list and currently traveling on the
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Cunard Queen Mary and this is my
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transatlantic crossing video tour I'm
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going to take you on a tour of this
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magnificent ship
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I want to winter crossing and I'm going
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to be starting by showing you the sees
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just how off it can be so here you can
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see us churning through the North
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Atlantic we were going through storms
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force 11 gales sometimes force mind
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sometimes force of cake but usually
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force 11 girls
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the ship was kind of still cutting
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through the sea but at times swells were
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between 30 and 40 feet high which is
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pretty impressive the Queen Mary - it
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still moves about when you have these
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massive waves but it's much more stable
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than any other ship you can possibly
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imagine out on the decks as you can
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probably hear it's very blustery it's
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kind of wet this here is calming down a
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bit but let's take a look at night you
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can see it's calmed down a little bit
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bit and you can see how we're just
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chopping through that North Atlantic the
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ship is actually moving up and down you
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can probably see a little bit here kind
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of the movement of the ship upwards and
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downwards and if you take a look at the
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swimming pool you'll see the water
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sloshing around it's very exciting it's
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very thrilling being out on deck
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although some people course doing a bit
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seasick but it is really really exciting
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and fair
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very thrilling indeed as you can
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probably see the great thing about a
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transatlantic crossing is the decks are
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incredibly quiet most people kind of
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hide themselves away inside but it's
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just very beautiful it's very exciting
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about the winds you've got the storms
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and it's just incredibly calm and
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exciting now let's take a video tour on
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the ship itself so here we are in the
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grand lobby on Queen Mary - the grand
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lobby is the heart of the ship it's
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right in the center of the ship and it's
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a beautiful Lobby it stretches up to
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levels and actually you can rock look
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right up to deck seven the staircases
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which are come a reminiscence of the old
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grand transatlantic liners like the
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Titanic looking to make big grand
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entrances if you look up you'll also see
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interesting artwork like this beautiful
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relief in a sort of a gold and brass of
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the Queen Mary - around the deck there
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you will see the various shops you know
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jewelry shops curio shops memorabilia
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shops and the Queen Mary - Belle this is
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the Queen Mary Belle it's rung eight
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times at noon every day and again you'll
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see more shops that glass elevator goes
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from the grand lobby up to the shops and
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then all the way up to deck number seven
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feeding off the ground lobby are various
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hallways and then around and across they
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to the side you'll see the verb leak
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cocktail bar is a very beautiful very
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tasteful place you'll see the sea
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churning outside and here is a very nice
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champagne bar where you can but you know
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have cocktails before dinner and in the
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afternoon
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have afternoon tea or champagne
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afternoon tea again you'll notice that
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overall even though this is the daytime
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on a transit line crossing it's still
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relatively quiet out and about leading
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off the champagne bar you head into the
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chart bar this is one of the most famous
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bars on board and has a lot of heritage
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there's a beautiful chart bar on Queen
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Elizabeth 2 as well
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one of the most popular bars on board
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the Queen motive is the golden line pub
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this pub is where they hold various
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competitions they held various quizzes
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and of course you can also eat
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traditional English pub food incredibly
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popular and packed usually in the
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evening but sometimes during the day as
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well as you stroll around Queen Mary -
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there's of course these very grand
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passageways and one of the most popular
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places is the images gallery constantly
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on Queen Mary - you have your photograph
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taken whether it's boarding the ship
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around the ship getting off the ship and
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so you'll always have lots of what to
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just go and look at photographs these
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beautiful reliefs are incredibly grand
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and very beautiful and if you look very
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carefully you'll find actually Homer
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Simpson from The Simpsons hidden away in
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one of them of course the casino is very
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important particularly on transatlantic
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sand have a very large casino both with
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you know games that you can play
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blackjack poker roulette and the always
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popular fruit machines
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there is a coffee bar on board but of
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course probably the most famous thing
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that Queen Mary 2 is known for is a
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taking of afternoon tea this is done in
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the very grand and very exciting Queens
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room
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there are no way of passages where you
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get a chance to walk down close to the
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sea this is actually the art gallery but
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again it acts more as a passage on board
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talks and lectures are a very important
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part of what Amazon canards and this is
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the Illuminations theater where you not
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only have a planetarium but you have a
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number of inside talks and lectures you
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enjoy me before today's talking about
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one of the greatest liners of all times
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a lordly please welcome Bill Miller
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thank you
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some kids if you grew up with and they
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had kids now so I said no I'm going to
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bring some t-shirts for them it was
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about two hours after we were sitting on
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the toddler's porch and I remember
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looking across the street and I saw a
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swarm close by the Illuminations theater
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down a passage is the very large and
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very impressive Royal Court Theatre this
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is where the production shows are held
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so here you can see the massive stage
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huge seating on two levels and we're
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going to take a look across to the upper
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level and above there is a very
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high-tech control room production shows
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are put on every night and if not there
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is normally some sort of guest performer
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all around the ship are these very
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interesting heritage boards and there's
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a number of passageways which would
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explain the history of Cunard this trip
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transatlantic stage three of ships and
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also will feature many of the famous
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people that have travelled on all of the
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Cunard ships through history and it's
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really as a fascinating exploration of
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history and it's really worth spending
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some time exploring all of these again
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around the ship our passageways like
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this where you can play games and all
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important is the future voyage office
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where your normal find queues of people
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lining up to book their next voyage on
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one of the Cunard ships
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eating is very important and there are a
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number of restaurants the first of which
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is the largest which is the Britannia
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restaurant this is where most people
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will eat a very grand very beautiful
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very classic room which has gained
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reminiscence of historical ships like
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the Titanic with that big sweeping
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staircase and on two levels
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seating many hundreds of people at two
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sittings at dinner at six o'clock and at
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eight
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all the lifts have a Art Deco and
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stylish feel to them we're heading up in
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this lift to Dec 7 which is where some
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of the other restaurants are this is the
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Queen's crow lounge which Queens Gollum
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and Princess Royal passengers can sit in
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and just relax and also we're afternoon
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tea is served on a daily basis at 3:30
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you get the same tiers in the Queen's
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room that's just a little bit smaller a
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little bit more intimate and actually to
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be honest is often a lot quicker
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probably one of the most beautiful
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restaurants at sea is the Queen's Grill
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restaurant which is the premium
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restaurant where if you're travelling in
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the Queen's grill you get to eat here in
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free seating between 6:30 and 9:00
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o'clock one of the most popular places
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to eat though is the king's court buffet
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restaurant which basically operates 24
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hours a day it's self-service and there
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are huge amounts place to seat and huge
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amounts of food variety connects to that
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is the winter gardens which is a bar and
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a place to sit and relax and read a book
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and chill it's also where some cocktail
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parties are held g32
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is the disco and this is where it all
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happens late at night parting and dis
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going and a live band which basically
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kicks off towards midnight and carries
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on to the early hours of the morning
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pretty much till people all ready to
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head to bed if you don't like taking the
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lifts there are of course staircases
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very big large staircases and got around
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are boards like this which basically
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help you find your way around the ship
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but the passengers are passages are very
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very long so take a look this is deck 10
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for example you can almost see right to
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the end there it's a massive big long
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walk the Commodore Club which is in the
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front of the ship is one of the most
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popular places to head in the evenings
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especially and have it
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of course all too soon surprisingly
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you'll find that your seven days at sea
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on Queen Row two and your transatlantic
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are up at it's time to head into New
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York we're early in the morning you get
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this sight the Statue of Liberty and by
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the time you maneuver past the Statue of
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Liberty it's daylight and you're looking
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across from the Brooklyn to New York now
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that's the end I hope you enjoyed this
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video tour of Queen Mary to member visit
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