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Tickets to join the final voyage of the cruise ship QE2, before she is converted into a floating hotel, sold out in just 36 minutes.
More than £3 million was spent by passengers who will occupy the 1,800 berths when she leaves Southampton on November 11 next year. Two couples who booked the Grand Suites paid nearly £18,000 per person for the 16-night, one-way trip to Dubai. Berths in the cheapest accommodation, a standard inside cabin, were sold for more than £4,000 each.
John Graves, the curator of ship history at the National Maritime Museum in London, said: “It doesn’t surprise me in the least that tickets sold out so quickly because these great ships are becoming rarer and rarer.”
The QE2, which entered service in 1969, was sold in a £50.5 million deal this month with Istithmar, the investment division of the Dubai Government. Cunard, her present owner, has said that a ten-night farewell voyage around Britain will take place in September next year.
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This just proves that in these hard times the rich are as unaffected as ever.While the pensioners of this country struggle to pay bills for just the basis neccesities of life, the privilaged few squander their wealth and wallow in luxury to their hearts content, until 21-12-2012 Polar reversal
Gordon Ennis, Camborne, Cornwall
Good to know that she's become as beloved as her great predecessors!
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