Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth cruise liners enter Sydney Harbour together
TWO of the world’s most famous cruising ships – Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth – will spend the day in Sydney Harbour together on Saturday.
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TWO of the world’s most famous cruising ships – Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth – will spend the day in Sydney Harbour together on Saturday.
The Royal rendezvous comes almost a decade to the day after Queen Mary 2 paid her first visit to Sydney, bringing the city to a standstill as spectators lined the foreshore to enjoy a meeting of the Cunard flagship and the legendary QE2.
A decade on, the newly remastered Queen Mary 2 and QE2’s successor, Queen Elizabeth, will both sail into the harbour early in the morning for a visit which marks 10 years of extraordinary growth for cruising in Australia.
The 2000-guest 90,900-tonne Queen Elizabeth will cruise into the harbour first, arriving at the heads at 5am before anchoring at Athol Buoy near Taronga Zoo at 5.30am.
Queen Mary 2 will follow, arriving at 5.30am before berthing at the Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay around 7am.
The liners will stay in the harbour throughout the day and into the evening, before Queen Mary 2 sets sail for Tasmania at 11.30pm. Queen Elizabeth will then sail across the harbour to berth at Circular Quay overnight before departing Sydney on Sunday at 6pm.
Queen Mary 2’s visit to Sydney will be the first since her $145 million remastering last year which added 50 new staterooms.
The cruise line also installed 10 new kennels for Queen Mary 2’s four-legged travellers as well as a lamp post for English dog) and a fire hydrant for American dogs on the deck area reserved for dog walking during transatlantic cruises.
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