Here’s the QE2 as seen from the worlds tallest building in a 360 panorama. See it from the source The yacht on the far left (facing us) is the Sheikh‘s private yacht Dubai. Second largest in the world.

    click for larger   The Queen Elizabeth 2 has in fact been sold to Asian interests, but its not the scrap yards. Oceanic Group has purchased the ship and intends to refurbish her into a floating hotel and entertainment venue. Oceanic has reportedly already to have taken over as the Technical Managers of the [...]

    click for larger Ministers in London, including Mayor Boris Johnson, have assembled the £20 million that the Chinese have reported offered to the current owner Istithmar. Time will tell what Istithmar wants to do. There already is a reported 20 man Chinese crew on her getting her ready to sail. If brought back to [...]

    click for larger Reports in several British newspapers are saying that the famous QE2 has been sold to Chinese interests for $30 Million. Initial speculation was this was for scrapping, however the liners former owner Cunard, released this statement:  We have noted the messages of understandable concern with regards to the recent article in the Daily [...]

Rob Lightbody writing for The QE2 Story wrote the following: I’m hearing from a good contact, that ship brokers have been getting contacted about the possible scrapping of a 300m cruise ship based in UAE. That could surely only be one ship.  Has time finally run out for our ship?  If so, surely not a [...]

    click for larger Not entirely sure why CrusieCritic needs to state this, but this was already the plan. The Global Economic Crisis just stalled it a bit. They do state that the ship will no longer be going over to Palm Jumeirah, but instead stay at Port Rashid. Nothing really new here. Until we [...]

I spoke to one of the directors of my company and he said they keep her under heavy guard and security won’t even allow pictures. So I found a way around it. The Burj Khalifa is the worlds tallest free standing structure. Yesterday, I was able to go to the top of it and have [...]

A press release was released today claiming that Universal Event Management (UEM) of Macau have just received the “rights to represent the QE2 in a number of locations.” Locations are said to be the SAR Macau and Atlantic City, New Jersey. Kind of odd choices of venues, however Universal Event Management are based in Macau. [...]

French site Meretmarine, posted the below photo update about the famed liner. It seems as if she is being kept in excellent condition in the scorching climate of Dubai. Her devoted fans will be happy to know that I bet. (© : MER ET MARINE )

Over the weekend I was digging through old posts from my original blog and I came across my very first post. It was the leaked images of the Queen Elizabeth’s interiors from way back in March 2009. I was looking at the pictures and something struck me. The new artwork that was just displayed to [...]