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Dubai unveils QE2 in her 1969 glory
Gulf News
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2/12/2025
Dubai unveils QE2 in her 1969 glory. The iconic ship has been turned into a hotel and docked at Port Rashid in Dubai.
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Dubai added another iconic tourist destination to its list of must-visit sites with the opening
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of Queen Elizabeth II Hotel on Wednesday, nearly 10 years after the world's most famous
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ocean liners teamed into its new permanent home at Port Rashid.
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QE2 will serve a new life as an upscale hotel and a museum designed to help boost Dubai's
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aim of becoming a world-class tourist destination.
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Seven floors and 224 restored passenger state rooms of the 13-deck ship were opened during
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the soft opening.
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Images of the maiden voyage and other artifacts from the ship have been attractively housed
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in the new QE2 Heritage Exhibition in the renovated Mina Rashid Terminal.
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QE2 has gone through 2.7 million man-hours of transformation.
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The refurbished ship has retained the original porthole windows in the rooms as well as the
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interior design features.
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The QE2 sailed into Gulf waters on November 26, 2008 and was welcomed by an armada of
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bobbing yachts in light seas as an overhead fly-pass by an Emirates A380 aircraft announced
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her arrival.
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Irish Eden Beliaza for Gulf News.
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