I have no problem with it. Many are cool...some are not...I remember on QM2...there were some very nasty old grannys who even talked bad about 8 year old kids wearing jeans at breakfast. I don´t want sit on the same table with such "things" ;Pbesides, whats wrong with chatting with retired folks? I do it ALL the time!! Lotta good stuff there.
The Queen Mary 2 is pathetic. She takes up to 7 days to cross the atlantic. She is dead slow. The Bremen took the same distance in just a litle more than 4 days. You feel no power or strength on the QM2...just dullness and boredom. Her interior is pathetic. Plastic covered in fake gold and fake wood. But it fits her passengers, mostly very very old and even demented people. She is too big to be luxurious and loses her glamoure evry year more. Just recently she failed hygienic standards in the USA.. Her bad design and service is the main reason why she makes no profit while the entire industry is booming. I´m aware that the QM2 can´t reach the luxus standard of a MS Europa, which is voted the best ship worldwide in almost 8 years in a row...but QM2 is going down rapidly. I travelled her and i was super disappointed. I got more luxus in any 3rd class egyptian hotel in Hurghada. My personal favorite is the Costa neoRomantica and also AIDA. QM2 is floating dirt and a shame for an old name. The old QE2 was much better. Most funny thing about QM2 is how unprofessional her staff is. And i didn´t even talk about the technical failures that vessel has. Power black outs almost on evry tour. At last QM2 is cheap. Her most expensive cabin is as much as the cheapest on the Europa.
Why book first class train tickets, when you can also take the cattle train...Its not about time, its about style. I can afford it and i enjoy it. I don´t like to cramp myself in a tube get pathetic food served as 1st class stuff and fly like the average joe. Time is luxury. You can afford it and take a liner or you can´t and take a plane. I also have my mobile phone only for business. I never use it at home and put it into the storage.
Its also the entire style. Getting there is half the fun. The ship is the attraction. Its a liner, not a cruise ship. And as i said, time is a luxury, not evryone can afford. I feel no need to hurry and sorry but i feel to good to cramp myself in a plane. I do it only when necessary. The service at any airline is just pathetic. What they give you as food is disgusting. Thanks but now.
On a sidenote, i love the QE2 so much i made a model of her
You get placed at Cunard. That means they chose the place where you will sit. They normally try to place you at people which fit to you. So we sat together with younger folks.