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Discover all you need to know about cruising in Cunard Cruise Line’s Queens Grill to decide if it is really worth spending the money to cruise this premium way. I explore the Suites, Dining, Facilities, Perks and (importantly) the cost! I have spent over 150 nights cruising in Queens Grill around the world and learnt many things about the benefits and downsides of a cruise in Cunard Queens Grill. I share all of this in this video.
Cunard ships have four main grades: Queens Grills, Princess Grill, Britannia Club and Britannia. Each have their own restaurant and you dine based on the category you are cruising in. Queens Grill is the most premium of all.
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join me as we take a look at one of the
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most luxurious ways you can ever cruise
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in Q nard Queens grill
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I'm Gary Bainbridge of tips for
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travellers I'm going to take a look at
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Queens grow and I'm gonna take a look
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specifically at the accommodation the
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dining the facilities and the extra
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little perks and benefits that makes
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Queens grill so different and so special
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as I tell a little bit about the Queen's
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grill accommodation I'm gonna show you
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around a couple of examples of different
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cabins first of all I'm going to show
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you what the master suite the caronia
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suite onboard Queen Victoria looks like
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Cunard is a very traditional line it's
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been going for an extremely long time
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and they still follow a very classic way
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of cruising so there's three key groups
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onboard the ship and they are slightly
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segregated so you have Queen's Grill
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which is a little bit like traveling
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first class if you were flying you have
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princess grill which is a little bit
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like if you were flying club or business
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and then they have Britannia within
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Britannia they're Britannia Club and
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pretend another but whilst the bulk of
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the cabins on board are Britannia and
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they range from inside to balcony the
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ultimate is Queen's Grill there are a
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range of cabins ranging from grand
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suites master suites penthouse suites
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and queen suites and they all graded
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between q1 and q6 with q1 being ground
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sweet q6 being a queen suite
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now the cabins on board Queen Victoria
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and Queen Elizabeth are the same or
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queen mary 2 has slightly different
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cabins because it's different shape to
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ship queen's grill cabins are generally
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pretty spacious and they have a fairly
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classic decor a feel to them which is
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sort of art deco inspired and try to
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hark back to the glory days of cruising
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the sort of the 40s 50s and 60s the
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great thing as you probably noticed in
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the Queen's grill is you have a bath and
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a shower on board both Queen Elizabeth
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and Queen Victoria you have a separate
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bath and shower on Queen Mary 2 in some
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of the lower grades that q5 and q6 it
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tends to be a shower within the bath
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another type of suite on board is the
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penthouse suite which is both q3 and q4
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so here's an example of a penthouse
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suite you have butter service in all of
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the Queen's grow suites and you'll also
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have a cabin steward looking after you
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you also have a complimentary
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which gets replenished based on what you
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want you also get to choose some spirits
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so whilst the bar has things like beers
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and soft drinks in you can then choose
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spirits from a menu you get daily fruit
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you have a turndown service every night
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you have coffee and tea making
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facilities with a very nice eally coffee
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making machine when you arrive you get
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champagne on arrival and you get a treat
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which is normally strawberries dipped in
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chocolate another great thing is a
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pillow concierge so you can choose from
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a wide range of different types of
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pillows and in the evenings you get
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served canapes the cabins are spread out
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across different decks and that's
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because most of the Queen's booked
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cabins are midships which of course is
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the best policy up to be if you're in
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rough waters so if you can see from that
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the cabins are pretty luxurious never
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sudden feel I kind of looked to them and
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there are I think very tastefully and
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very beautifully done so the great thing
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about being on Queen Scrolls certainly
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and Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth
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is you have a dedicated girls area so
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this is controlled by your keycard and
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it's up on deck 11 and in this area you
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have a small lounge which is also a bar
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so you can meet here for drinks before
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or after meals it's also where you have
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the concierge desk you have a dedicated
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concierge who will do things like book
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tours for you give you advice about
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things around the ship and basically
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answer any of the queries that you may
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have but also up here you have the queen
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school restaurant and the princess girl
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restaurant and also a dedicated deck so
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up above the restaurants is a very large
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deck where you can go and sunbathe and
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there's another lower deck which is just
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outside of the girls lounge now on Queen
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Mary 2 it is much more spread out it's
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not a dedicated area as it is on the
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Victoria and the Elizabeth so many
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people think that q-not ships are very
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segregated most of the ship is open so
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the main decks public areas the theatre
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the casino
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that's all open to everybody there's
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only certain parts of the ship that are
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restricted to Queens grill so it's much
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more around the accommodation and the
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dining experience in practice queen
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squirrel restaurant is pretty
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magnificent and the great thing about
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eating in Queens grill is you have your
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dedicated table and dedicated staff so
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you have the same table and you have the
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same waiting staff the whole time you're
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on board and there are lots of tables
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for two so you
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and obviously choose combinations of two
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four or a larger table most people tend
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to choose smaller tables and eat with
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whoever they're traveling with the other
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tables are quite nearby so you do get to
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talk and meet other people
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there's also normally a very large table
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for about eight people in the center of
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the restaurant which tends to more be
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for solo travelers but you often find
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couples who do want to interact and mix
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with other people will have that big
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table now the important thing about
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eating in Queens Grill is you have an
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enormous choice you have breakfast menu
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which is absolutely enormous pretty much
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anything you can think of you have a
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lunch again with multiple courses and
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lots to choose from
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you know if soups you have starters you
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have salads you have sandwiches you have
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main courses you have desserts now
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dinner is really important dinner is
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from 6:30 to 9 it's open seated dining
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so anytime you want to go so you have a
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daily menu which consists of starters
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with soups main courses and desserts
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what you also have is an ala carte menu
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this stays the same every day and it has
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an enormous a choice now very
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importantly on the ala carte is a series
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of dishes which you can pre-order things
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like duck a L'Orange
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you have Dover sole you can have Lobster
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Thermidor Chateaubriand and beef
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wellington so these you you need to
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pre-order at lunchtime you can also
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order off menus so again at least by
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lunchtime you can order anything you
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want so if you perhaps feel like roast
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chicken for dinner or you want
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shepherd's pie or cottage pie you can
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order off menu also very importantly
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it's not on the menu but also for dinner
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you can ask to have caviar as a starter
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so there's a little sort of inside trick
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if you do want caviar it's not shown on
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any menu but you basically can pre-order
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that at lunchtime and have that as your
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starter now the other thing that you
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have in the Queen's gray area are two
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great features one of which is alfresco
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dining so particularly if you're
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cruising through warmer parts of the
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world you can also have your meals
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outside in the alfresco area another
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great feature is afternoon tea now ki
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raat is famous for the afternoon tea and
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the main afternoon tea takes place down
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in a Queens room however if you're
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traveling in Queens grille or princess
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growth they do afternoon tea up in the
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Queen's grille now sometimes it's served
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in the lounge but many of the times it's
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served in the princess school restaurant
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every day at 3:30 except normally for
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invocation day now I think the food in
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Queens grille is absolutely magnificent
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it really is top-notch I would say it's
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the best food I've had anywhere
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beautiful quality and absolutely
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magnificent so the main facilities then
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just to recap for Queen scrollers you
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have the dedicated lounge
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you have the dedicated deck you know the
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dedicated concierge and of course your
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dedicated dining areas so what are the
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perks are they of traveling in Queens
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grill now these end up being quite
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useful so you have priority check-in so
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when you come in there's normally a
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specific girls check-in area so
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sometimes when you check-in bear in mind
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that we're up to 2,000 passengers
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checking in so it's always great to have
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a dedicated check-in which moves much
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quicker and much faster than if you're
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traveling say in Britannia so that's a
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perk you also a priority invocation and
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disembarkation so you get onto the ship
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first and you also get off the ship
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first you might be disembarking as early
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as say 8:00 a.m. in the morning where
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the last Britannia guests only get off
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at 10:00 in the morning now you also
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have priority with tenders if you're in
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tender ports now depending on the ship
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you're on sometimes that's only for some
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of the higher Queen's grill so q1 q2 q3
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so the grand suites the master suites
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and the pent houses but there normally
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is some sort of priority with tendering
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so if you're not getting a tour and
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you're on a tender port B and quince
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grill has some perks but the main perks
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about being in Queens Grill already the
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accommodation and the dining that's the
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real real big difference because there's
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not lots of dedicated facilities so what
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will it cost to Cruise in Queens grill
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Queens grill suite will start from at
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least $800 per cabin for two people per
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day so you should expect to pay between
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500 and $1,000 per person per day
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Queen's Grill is definitely a very
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luxurious way of cruising and is
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probably one of the most luxurious and
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special ways of cruising there's a lot
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of energy and effort put into making
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accommodation feel very luxurious and
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very plush very high quality the dining
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is magnificent the service is very
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attentive and then you have all those
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other little perks like the
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complimentary bar the concierge priority
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embarque Asian but really the real heart
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of Queens girl is the accommodation and
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the dining so if you are thinking of
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splashing out do take a look at Queens
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grill if you found this video helpful
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