Cunard's Queen Mary 2 impresses with $177m remaster

By Sally Macmillan
Updated July 22 2016 - 1:50am, first published July 17 2016 - 12:15am
Confetti helps celebrate the launch of Cunard's Queen Mary 2 after a $177 million refit. Photo: Christopher Ison
Confetti helps celebrate the launch of Cunard's Queen Mary 2 after a $177 million refit. Photo: Christopher Ison

Cunard's perennially popular flagship, Queen Mary 2, recently emerged from its £90 million ($177 million) makeover in Hamburg's Blohm + Voss shipyard. The cruise line coined the phrase "QM2 remastered" to describe the most extensive upgrade the ship has received since it set sail in 2004 – and by all accounts, the results are impressive.

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