It’s no secret that an effort to transform the famed Queen Elizabeth 2 into a floating hotel in Dubai appears to have been derailed — at least for now. And maybe that’s not such a bad thing, say ocean liner experts quoted this week in a lengthy story in Travel Weekly.
“What they planned (for the Queen Elizabeth 2) was horrific,” ocean liner historian Peter Knego tells the news outlet, pointing to the ideas put forward by an investment arm of the Dubai government to gut the ship and install a glass penthouse in place of its funnel. “Nothing of QE2 would have been left, just the name.”[Read More]