Don’t Miss the Boat
WHAT’S A 5-CONTINENT VOYAGE REALLY LIKE?
Read all about it in:
DON’T MISS THE BOAT, CRUISING THROUGH THE LEISURE YEARS
Written by Janet Go and Perry McGinnis
The couple sailed from New York on January 9, 2006, aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2. When they came home, they wrote this illustrated 400-page book covering their visits to 41 ports in 27 countries on 5 continents during the 109-day cruise. The book is a personal account of their amusing and educational experiences, practical information about cruising, and history of the QE2, the world’s greatest ocean liner.
The book, published by LifeTime Chronicle Press, Montrose, Colorado, is available at Hastings Books Store and The Complete Traveler in Grand Junction, Colorado, the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, and on www.amazon.com.
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COMMENTS ABOUT “DON’T MISS THE BOAT”
- Priscilla A. Gaison, Kaneohe, HI, wrote on Amazon.com: “For those who can’t scrape up the price of a cruise round the world on the Queen Elizabeth 2, settle for the next best thing. Read Janet’s tale of adventure, wining and dining, dancing, and sightseeing. Her descriptions of shipboard life and of ports of call as varied as Pago Pago, Taipei, Sri Lanka, Mumbai, Athens, Valencia, and Southampton will hold your interest from the time the ship sails out by the Statue of Liberty till it docks in Southampton. And it doesn’t end there—she sails back to the U.S. on the new Queen Mary 2.”
- Upon receiving the book as a gift from a friend in Colorado, a California woman writes, “Janet Go must be quite a little pistol…I like her style and the personal photos are a big plus. Thanks so much for giving me an armchair tour and inspiration!”
GOODBYE QE2
Cunard Line’s Queen Elizabeth 2 will leave the fleet in November 2008 and end her ocean-going career with dignity as a luxury floating hotel, retail and entertainment destination in Dubai. The ship was purchased by Istithmar, the investment arm of Dubai World and a wholly-owned company of the Government of Dubai.
She will leave her homeport of Southampton on November 11 for her final voyage and transit the Suez Canal before making her final arrival on November 27 at The Palm Jumeirah, a world landmark resort, comprising beachfront hotels and villas and retail and leisure facilities, on the world’s largest man-made island in Dubai.
Cunard Line announced this year that it has ordered a new 92,000-ton liner, to be named Queen Elizabeth, scheduled to enter service in the autumn of 2010. The 2092-passenger ship is being built at Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri’s Monfalcone yard at a cost of about $700 million.
