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She has five luxury apartments, each with its own exercise room, balcony,
two full marble bathrooms, and personal butler and room service.
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She has a 6,000-square-foot casino with slot machines, blackjack, roulette,
craps, and poker.
Cunard Line, which owns and operates the
Queen Mary 2,
has been in the cruise-ship
business since 1840, when it began offering the first timetable passenger service across the
Atlantic. Over the years, its fleet contained RMS
Carpathia,
the ship that rescued the sur-
vivors of the ill-fated
Titanic,
and the
Queen Mary
and the
Queen Elizabeth,
which between
them carried more than 1.5 million troops during World War II.
Prices range from $699 for a four-day cruise in a standard room to $185,905 for a round-
the-world cruise in a 2,249-square-foot suite with a two-story glass wall overlooking the
ocean. Spa appointments are extra and can be scheduled in advance.
HOW TO GET IN TOUCH
Cunard Line,
24303 Town Center Drive, Suite 200, Valencia, CA 91355, 800-728-6273,
www.cunard.com.
