today it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce this video is gonna talk
about the few nard cruises cruise line a little bit of history about kyun art
they were founded in 1840 they were originally known as the British and
North American Royal Mail Steam Packet company the company was formed because
they won the contract from the British government to take mail from Canada to
Britain and back 1879 the company was reorganized as the Cunard ship Company
Limited in 1934 Cunard merged with White Star Line to form a company called
Cunard white star limited 1950 Cunard adopted its own name Cunard Line and in
88 Cunard was acquired by the Carnival
Corporation for 575 million dollars making Carnival the largest cruise line
in the world today Cunard is the only company operating regularly scheduled
service in the North Atlantic between North America and Europe now in 2004
Cunard started coming up with their brand new ships as they just retired the
qe2 which is now in Dubai as a hotel the Queen Mary of course is now in Long
Beach has been there since 1970 as a hotel but the Queen Mary 2 was launched
in a four at 151 thousand tons holds three thousand and sixty four passengers
it has a 20,000 square foot spa known as the Canyon Ranch this is a big ship
eleven hundred thirty two feet long 131 feet wide restaurants everywhere bars
everywhere beautiful ship all the amenities you could want if you want to
go on this Cruise Line tipping nowadays on Cunard ranges from 1150 to 1350 per
passenger per day of course it's higher if you're in some
of the Suites where you have a butler service here are some of the photos here
are some of the beautiful dining areas some of the various menus there's all
the chef's and the captain's and staff beautiful shots here of the spa if you
want to relax on a either around the world
trip or a two-week Caribbean holiday or through Australia this is the ship for
you this spire II here will keep you nice and relaxed on sea days and you'll
just have a great time the other ship that they've launched the next one was
Queen Victoria in 2007 not as big as the Queen Mary - this one instead of being
one hundred fifty one thousand tons as eighty-one is eighty nine thousand five
hundred actually it can hold two thousand and fourteen passengers so a
thousand less its 965 feet long and one hundred six feet wide so this ship is
able to fit through the Panama Canal no problem
it sails the world on round-the-world the passages it'll spend several months
at a time in Australia New Zealand area then you'll find it in the Asia
territory you'll find it in the Mediterranean area and also through
North America depending on the time of year also a beautiful ship with all
kinds of amenities the beautiful library here you see here's a spa that they have
onboard there's a beautiful pool there to get nice and warm and relaxed and
then head over to one of the loungers and just take it easy great shot here
from above you can see the pool on the top of the deck there and it has a
retractable roof that you see there they can bring that over and keep the pool
totally indoors depending on the kind of weather they're at there's the back of
the ship there the third ship that they produced was they released it in 2016
the Queen Elizabeth was brought out at ninety thousand four hundred tons so
about the same size as the Queen Victoria it holds twenty one hundred and
sixteen passengers tons of rooms with balconies as you can see here she's nine
hundred and sixty five feet long same length as the Queen Victoria one hundred
six feet wide same width and in fact it's on the same kind of platform I
guess if we had to call it that the ship again has all the amenities you could
want you've got formal nights here where you
could put the tuxedo on for the guys and wear a beautiful evening gown for the
women Cunard is known as sort of one of the last you know throw backs to the old
days you got true formal nights in some of the
restaurants beautiful libraries like this this ship really takes you back to
the way it was in the the 30s the 40s the 50s the 60s beautiful ship you can't
compare Cunard to say a Royal Caribbean or a carnival this is one one of a kind
there's a new ship on order it's coming out in 2022 it's a hundred thirteen
thousand tonnes and it'll hold three thousand passengers so that ships gonna
be just about as large as the Queen Mary certainly for passenger capacity and
it'll be coming out within the next two and a half or so three years but that's
the basic story on cue nard thanks for watching this video today if you liked
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