Royalty will line up on the Southern California coast on the Fourth of July when Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth visits the region in time for passengers to watch holiday fireworks explode over the original Queen Mary, docked in Long Beach.
The Southland visit is part of an expanded West Coast cruise presence for Cunard, which will sail in Alaska for the first time this year. Cruises begin May 31, with rates starting at $999 per person, based on double occupancy.In addition, the line will spend a full season in Alaska next year, from June through September 2020. The line's Alaska sailings will be out of Vancouver, Canada.
The Queen Elizabeth cruise was one of several announced by Josh Leibowitz, senior vice president for Cunard North America, during the annual Seatrade Cruise Global convention earlier this month. Cruisers who would like to join the two-queens celebration on Independence Day have two seagoing options, both aboard the Queen Elizabeth, which launched in 2015 and is Cunard's newest ship.leaving Vancouver on June 20 and stopping at Alaskan ports in Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Icy Strait Point and Sitka, along with Victoria, Canada.
Cunard, based in Southampton, England, would like to double its business in North America, Leibowitz said, adding that the cruise line is increasing North American voyages, and home porting in Vancouver and New York. On the West Coast, Alaska sailings are on the schedule. On the East Coast, Queen Mary 2 will spend more time in New England and Canada, with departures out of New York, making calls in Boston, Québec City, Québec, and Newport, R.I.
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