Dubai unveils QE2 in her 1969 glory

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Dubai unveils QE2 in her 1969 glory. The iconic ship has been turned into a hotel and docked at Port Rashid in Dubai.  Read the full Gulf News article: http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/culture/after-100m-facelift-dubai-unveils-qe2-in-her-1969-glory-1.2207679  See more at: http://gulfnews.com/videos

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00:00Dubai added another iconic tourist destination to its list of must-visit sites with the opening

00:14of Queen Elizabeth II Hotel on Wednesday, nearly 10 years after the world's most famous

00:19ocean liners teamed into its new permanent home at Port Rashid.

00:22QE2 will serve a new life as an upscale hotel and a museum designed to help boost Dubai's

00:28aim of becoming a world-class tourist destination.

00:32Seven floors and 224 restored passenger state rooms of the 13-deck ship were opened during

00:37the soft opening.

00:39Images of the maiden voyage and other artifacts from the ship have been attractively housed

00:44in the new QE2 Heritage Exhibition in the renovated Mina Rashid Terminal.

00:48QE2 has gone through 2.7 million man-hours of transformation.

00:53The refurbished ship has retained the original porthole windows in the rooms as well as the

00:57interior design features.

00:59The QE2 sailed into Gulf waters on November 26, 2008 and was welcomed by an armada of

01:04bobbing yachts in light seas as an overhead fly-pass by an Emirates A380 aircraft announced

01:10her arrival.

01:11Irish Eden Beliaza for Gulf News.

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