As you visit the Queen Mary in Long Beach

• Opening times: Open daily
• Not required for general admission for some special events, but necessary: reservations. Buy your tickets in advance in order to facilitate entry
• Cost: Fee paid parking
• Location: Downtown Long Beach
• How long: Wait a few hours
• Best time to visit: The best days are nice, but each time is also

The Queen Mary originally built in 1937, made his 516th and final voyage to Long Beach, California, December 9, 1967 Queen Mary is at the Port of Long Beach, now based a hotel and tourist attraction. Guides voice echoed in the room now empty machines in which generated 27 hp boiler once 160,000. Long Beach was over she sailed the oceans, and the ship became an icon in his hometown.

Visit Queen Mary

While not as big and fancy as today mega-Shirts cruise ships, the Queen Mary is an elegant reminder of a bygone era. There are several options to visit the Queen Mary:

• Self-guided tours take visitors more than 1,020 meters long Queen Mary, in the engine room to the wheelhouse. It is cheaper, but the tour route is poorly marked and the big ship can be quite daunting, to travel on their own.
• Daily guided tours explore the glorious past of the Queen Mary, the luxurious dining room to the indoor pool.
• The ghosts and legends of the visit of Queen Mary directed paranormal and historic events in the boat. Include night tours haunted explorations and midnight ghost tours led by paranormal experts.
• Every Halloween, the Queen Mary is home to destroy, an event billed as "terrorist party."

The Scorpion, a submarine-class Russian Foxtrot, is just below the bow of the Queen Mary at anchor. A visit to the places and narrow military terms (78 crew members shared two showers and three toilets) provides an interesting contrast to the Queen Mary and luxury.

Queen Mary review and rating

A few years ago, the Queen Mary was a clean and well organized with a lot of reforms that are nice to visit.

Unfortunately, we found the Queen Mary unkempt and disorganized, visitors can experience May 2011 We have a ticket for the lead, but says that the audio tour is included. None of the staff were there to help and instructions aimlessly for a while before realizing that we go upstairs to start the tour. After that, the traffic signs were extremely low or completely absent. Unfortunately, we soon gave up and left.

If you decide to visit, a tour is a better idea - it will help you to understand what you see and not worry about getting lost.

Although the visitor experience could be improved, the Queen Mary is the fascinating story - and in some places, still shows a glimmer of its former prestige. A visit is best for those who are interested in history or the glamor of yesteryear had before the boat are to be usurped as a means of sea transport. Otherwise, it's a bit far from all the attractions of the Los Angeles area to make it worthwhile.

Hotel Queen Mary

You can also sleep in the old Cottages Hotel Queen Mary, set on a transatlantic trip with Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable and others. The small rooms are reasonably priced, but a little dark and cramped. For a taste of the luxury of a bygone era, splurge on a luxury cabin or suite image. And do not be fooled as I was, fluorescent lamps, which were now seem outdated in the rooms as modern as could be when the Queen Mary was built.

Brief history of the Queen Mary

Bigger, faster and more powerful than its predecessor, the ship Titanic, the RMS Queen Mary has a long career that had included 1,001 successful Atlantic crossings. By John Brown shipyard on the Clyde in Scotland in 1937, the Queen Mary has performed the record for the fastest crossing of the North Atlantic every time, and for three years the rich and famous across the Atlantic in luxury. During World War II, to use the implementation troops and later for war brides and children in the United States and Canada before returning to a cruise ship.

In 1967, when the owner sold the Cunard Queen Mary $ 3,450,000 and made his 516th and final voyage to Long Beach, California, December 9, 1967, the vessel was docked at times and was removed here.

Getting to the Queen Mary in Long Beach

Queen Mary
1126 Queens Highway
Long Beach, California
(562) 435-3511
Web page

Take I-710 south to Long Beach and follow the signs for the Queen Mary. Downtown Long Beach, you can take the AquaBus Queen Mary.