Monday 11 March 2013


Day 21 Monday 11 March last day on Queen Elizabeth

Well hasn’t those 3 weeks gone quickly.  We’ve had a lovely time on board, met some wonderful people, seen some first class entertainment, danced a lot, and of course, ate far too much delicious food. Last night our Waiters presented us with copies of all our menus from our voyage. Nice touch Cunard.

This morning we awoke to the knock on the door with our room service breakfast being delivered.  Just as well otherwise we would still be asleep! Another bit of a late night after a wonderful Palladium Theatre variety show in the Royal Court Theatre plus the clocks going forward yet another hour before going to bed. We keep getting short changed in sleep….lol.

Today being our last day we’ve had a pretty relaxing day.  I did a bit of shopping this morning at the usual last minute sales.  Generally the shops on board are quite expensive because they have quality stock like Hermes, Polo Ralph Lauren, and many other designer names.  However, they have also had sales on other brands at quite good prices. The perfume prices are quite good remembering that the currency used on this ship is US dollars.

Captain David Henderson gave his last lecture on aircraft and flying this afternoon.  He has presented his lectures extremely well, and has a great sense of humour and has had some wonderful stories to tell about the airline industry. There has been a full house in the Royal Court Theatre for each of his presentations.

Then it was off to the Britannia Restaurant for a lovely leisurely silver service lunch. We had to cancel afternoon tea as we were still too full from lunch…J

We are very proud of ourselves; we have packed everything and pleased to say there’s still kilos and room to spare in the suitcases for more shopping in Las Vegas and L.A. J

There are quite a few people getting off in L.A. including the Captain who has been one of the best we’ve ever had. There are three legs left of this voyage, L.A. to Ft Lauderdale, then to New York and finally back to her home port of Southampton.

I would like to say thank you to all those who followed my blog and I hope you didn’t need an alarm clock to stop you from nodding off whilst reading it all.

Thank you for all the comments, I loved receiving them but unfortunately it wasn’t easy to reply to you.  Next time we cruise with Cunard I note we will have some loyalty so will receive some free internet….yay.  I will upload more photos on here once we’re in our hotel in Las Vegas with some free internet.

Toodlepip for now. J J

2 comments:

  1. Jilly,

    Many thanks for a most enjoyable blog as yours always are.

    We have thoroughly enjoyed following your progress each day, aand are now encouraged to sail with Cunard again - our last cruise with them was the Crown Monarch in 1994 which was very enjoyable but the ship then left Australian waters.

    Since then we have become Elite with Princess and have been a little put off Cunard by the suggestion you have to be formal most nights -but will now look to give them a go.

    Thanks agian and we look forward to your next blog!

    Don

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    1. Thanks Don, I thoroughly enjoyed writing it. I am sure you would love Queen Elizabeth, she certainly is a well appointed ship.

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