The ocean liner rose as the 30-foot-high swell passed beneath the hull. After a slight pause, it surged forward, careening to the bottom of the wave trough with a bang and a deep shudder. It was the ...

The Laurent-Perrier Champagne Bar onboard Cunard's Queen Mary 2 features Champagne tasting flights. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Cunard Champagne enthusiasts still have much to toast at the sparkly venue ...

As a cruise skeptic, Cunard changed my mind. For the longest time I couldn’t figure out why anyone would take an ocean liner. Look what happened in the movies. Shelley Winters walks gaily up a gangway ...

With a price tag of $780 million, the Queen Mary 2 is the longest, tallest, widest, most expensive -- and, we suspect, most hyped -- passenger liner ever built. Here's everything you need to know ...

Join Gary Bembridge on a video tour of the Cunard Queen Mary 2 during a winter transatlantic crossing. Experience the ship's winter seas and storms, along with an in-depth look at its public rooms, ...

The world's only active ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2. Courtesy of Cunard The world’s only active ocean liner will have a front-row seat to the largest peacetime naval gathering in history — one ...

If military historian Maxtone-Graham is at times a bit breathless in his praise of the Queen Mary 2, the Cunard line's new $800 million luxury liner, it's easy to forgive his enthusiasm after thumbing ...

Ill-fated love, terrorists, con men—like the grand hotels that were also once staples of cinema and stage, ocean liners are reliable backdrops for every cliché known to the machinery of melodrama.