The Queen Victoria Marks The End To The Cruise Ship Season

The British cruise vessel play is almost astatine an end, pursuing statistic precocious released, which uncover that this year, 551 ships carrying 1.8 cardinal passengers will person visited Mallorca betwixt January and December. That intends 47 much boats pinch 41,085 passengers person visited nan land this twelvemonth compared to last.

This year, connected Saturday, September 6, nan Cunard superliner, Queen Victoria, will person nan honour of closing nan Summer play visits to Mallorca, which, by nan way, is coming to an extremity earlier than usual. The Queen Victoria is 964.5 feet successful length, and offers worldwide itineraries. Passengers tin bask galore amenities, including a theatre, library, spa, and aggregate eating options, each wrong a sophisticated, British-themed situation pinch a required dress codification for evening events.

This magnificent vessel requires a unit of astatine slightest 913 members to supply exceptional work to 2,061 guests. “Queen Victoria will delight you pinch her typical appeal, wherever elegance and unsocial features harvester seamlessly pinch outstanding hospitality. You’ll observe an bonzer measurement to spot nan world,” nan ship’s website says. Imagine that! Queen Victoria is nan smallest of nan Cunard Queens, but she stands retired from her sisters because she tin sail overmuch faster astatine 23.7 knots aliases 44 km/h.

‘Named aft her grandmother’

“Like her sisters, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Anne, Queen Victoria was built successful nan Fincantieri Monfalcone Shipyard successful Italy. She was named by her godmother, Queen Camilla (then Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall), later that year, and group sail connected her maiden voyage to Northern Europe successful 2007.”

Queen Victoria is designed arsenic a modern classic, reflecting our rich | history, heritage, and tradition. She features expansive nationalist rooms, sweeping staircases, gleaming crystal chandeliers, intricate mosaics, rich | wood panelling, and freely decks. In erstwhile years, nan large British liners would moor up successful Mallorca good into September, but this twelvemonth it doesn´t look to beryllium nan case. Guests embark Queen Victoria via an awesome triple-height Grand Lobby wherever nan focal constituent is simply a huge, bas-relief of nan vessel astatine sea.

Her three-storey Royal Court Theatre tin spot 800 guests, and nan room connected committee Queen Victoria spans 2 decks, linked by a spiral staircase. Home to astir 6,000 books, arsenic good arsenic journals and periodicals, nan room besides provides quiet places to read, and an on-board book club. Outside, guests tin bask open-air sports decks pinch paddle tennis, platform quoits, shuffleboard, and 2 outdoor pools.

Four main restaurants and different good eating options

Queen Victoria has 4 main eating rooms, each associated pinch 1 of her accommodation grades connected board. The carriages of nan Orient Express animate nan Britannia Restaurant, and eating present ever feels special. The Britannia Club edifice is an elegant and luxurious room pinch an friendly eating nine atmosphere. The blase and friendly Princess Grill edifice serves up fantabulous cuisine alongside renowned wines. In contrast, nan Queens Grill edifice boasts nan finest ingredients, prepared by nan very champion chefs, making each repast a culinary event.

In summation to her main eating rooms, Queen Victoria besides offers respective replacement eating options. Steakhouse astatine The Verandah celebrates nan champion of onshore and sea, pinch ingredients originated from some sides of nan Atlantic. The Chart Room, a favourite barroom successful nan evenings, is unfastened during nan daytime for pastries and ray refreshments, on pinch barista coffee. The Golden Lion, inspired by British pubs, is nan spot to indulge successful hearty fare, for illustration food and chips and sticky toffee pudding. The informal Lido Restaurant offers buffet-style breakfast, lunch, and dinner, positive a cooked-to-order pizza bar. At night, portion of nan edifice transforms into Dinner astatine nan Lido, pinch a rotating destination-based paper featuring location ingredients. On deck, nan Lido Grill is unfastened for casual al fresco dining, a speedy poolside snack, aliases a refreshing portion successful nan sun.

Simply nosy facts

• Queen Victoria features 12 impermanent decks and towers almost 55 metres supra nan waterline, astir adjacent to nan tallness of a 20-storey building. 
• Queen Victoria’s creation postulation features much than 500 pieces, including immoderate original etchings by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. 
• The vessel has 3 anchors – 2 are successful usage and 1 is carried arsenic a spare. 

Annual depletion connected committee Queen Victoria

• 954,681 cups of tea
• 26,789 kg of coffee
• The balanced of 19,285 standard-sized boxes of meal cereal
• Over 109,000 litres of consequence juice
• 200,000 kg of potatoes
• 1,528,707 caller eggs
• 351,900 bottles of wine.