The QE2 5 Star Hotel - Queen Elizabeth II LIVES ON in DUBAI 🇦🇪 

A few yrs ago I read this ship was sold to Dubai to be a hotel. What a great video .

I’m there right now, in my room watching this. This ship is incredible, god knows how it felt when it was still ocean going, but I genuinely feel privileged to be on it. Since your video, some things seem to have gone back the way it is still quite quiet albeit it is January but the term ghost ship I see used in a lot of reviews, queens room a function room the shops are closed and empty, the upper deck now a night club, I think just the lido is open, the duty free and other shops are all empty- circle k is a museum…it’s strange…. I know it’s quiet but I’ve seen another review after yours and they were closed too.. I’m not sure. So many places closed, getting worked on but you need to understand the sheer size of the ship, I don’t think it will ever be finished it’s a bit like the old saying of the forth bridge- once you finish you start again. I think had it docked on the palm it would definitely be more popular but Port Rashid is currently getting massively over hauled, new buildings, flats, shops etc and when that’s finished it will be a proper destination. I don’t think Peter the guide is still here (I believe he did leave and come back) I’ll correct this if any wrong info when I get up tomorrow, go for a swim in the pool, then head to the Lido and eat an amazing breakfast…. Then hopefully find a souvenir ship to take home….there 😢 wasn’t. Missing a trick there. I ended up walking around the crew end accidentally of course… some very original 60 fixtures and fittings! You missed the last entrance where you were reading about the gangway and queens grill[ there’s an original 60s cabin and a car lift with a rolls Royce in it!

Late to the conversation, but that tall building is known as the Burj Khalifa. I just watched a vid of QE2's successor, the QE3, being built & then launched in 2010. The 2 ships' predecessor, the QE1 (launched 1938), in 1972 caught on fire in Hong Kong. For the QE2 to be now retired in Dubai in 2008 makes time seem even more compressed. When it was launched in 1967, the Queen Mary's (from 1934) last voyage to Long Beach, Ca, occurred. Meanwhile, there's the successor to the Queen Mary, QM2, from 2004. If today's Dubai existed in the 1960s, they probably would have outbid Long Beach for the QM. NYC in 1967 submitted a bid just a bit below that of the one from LB. Would be interesting knowing how the QM in the Middle East would have done compared with it being in the US. However, very dry, hot climates tend to preserve objects better than Mediterranean-type weather does.

A very nice tour of the ship. Cheers, Steve and Michelle!✌️

Thanks, Steve for the ship tour it looks massive cannot wait for more of your videos on the Q E 2 ship

My mother immigrated to Canada in 1945 on board the Aquitania. Although it was fitted out for a troop transport, wounded soldiers and army nurse ship at the time. Another great British ship. You're probably not old enough to remember that ship Steve as it was scrapped in 1950. Love your tour of the QEII.

Incredible. Breath-taking. From either side, she's a stunning and luxurious view for these eyes to behold. I'm talking; of course, about Michele. ❤❤😍😍💯. LOVE YOU BOTH!!💋💋💋 Thanks Steve for taking us around your new digs, ⛴️💖💖💜 QEII afternoon teas have got to be the number 1, on that sweet beauty. If the chef offered an opportunity, to put your spin on some iconic Australian afternoon treats to serve the whole ship. What would they be? ⛴️🥂🍰🥂🫖🥪 Well deserved treat for you both. ❤🧡💛💚💙🩵💜💖🥂🥂

My aunts took a trip on QE2 early on from New York. It's amazing how so much of it hasn't changed.

I was on her the first time with my parents in 1983. Cabin 4007. I sailed on her six times, my parents 21 times. They were on her last crossing.

Good luck 📌📌📌

I still find this ship amazing and this old ship is small compared to the newer ones I guess. I had to look up some of the stats and its fuel consumption was 125 ft per gallon or around 4 metres to a litre geez. But then it was big and heavy.

Hi Steve and Michelle. LONG TIME NO SEE mates! Travelling in style I see on a Posh Ship. That ship brings back a lot of memories. The last time I caught up with you both was in Malaysia and Thailand and then back to Malaysia. Where have you been to since then? Have you been back to Ceylon or some other part of the world. Nice to catch up with you both again. See you both soon. Cheers!