QE2 Restaurants

[Louis De Sousa]

Heres a shot not the best sorry but you can have an idea of the decoration.Ill be going through my albums maybe i find more.


Louis

[Chris]

Nice shot there Louis. Its colour palate is reminiscent of the Britannia Grill.

[Louis De Sousa]

Does anyone have any pictures or a plan of it?

Here is the plan of the PGS and of the PGS Bar

[Malcolm]

Here is the plan of the PGS and of the PGS Bar

Thanks I remember that the entrance to the Mauretania was long and narrow. I hadn't realised just how long it was and how much "empty" space there was behind the theatre.

[Louis De Sousa]

The same plan but just to mention that the red part was the staff section


Louis

[Louis De Sousa]

Heres a shot of the PGS bar

Louis

[RMS Queen Elizabeth 2]

From me seeing the pictures the restuarants look mamazing but my personal favourites are the Mauretania and Caronia.

[Chris]

Thanks Louis for sharing the image of the PGS Bar - very few publications show images of it!

[Twynkle]

And the uplighters - they are really cool!
Are they the original ones?
And are/ were they still there (2008)?

[Michael Gallagher]

Hello... they weren't original but copies designed to mirror the same sort of motif that was introduced into the Princes Grill in the 1986 / 1987 re-engining (just a different colour). Afraid they weren't there by 2008 - they were removed in the 1994 refit.

[Twynkle]

Hello!

Thank you.
I've never thought of this before (!), and may be the answer's a secret!
Do you know what happened to the fitting and furnishings
once they became redundant, following any of her refits?

[Michael Gallagher]

A lot of redundant furniture would find its way into crew accommodation - the Dubai people were quite pleased with some of the 1969 items they found when they went through the ship. But most of the redundant stuff was simply thrown away. The only original chairs on the ship in 2008, in passenger spaces anyway, were the benches in the Synagogue and the 100 or so Race chairs left in the Princess Grill (which were not original to the room - they were placed there in 1972 when the Grill disappeared to become an extension of the Columbia Restaurant. The PG was reinstated in 1976). In 1994 in New York prior to heading to Germany for the big project Lifestyle refit a large number of chairs (the green ones from the old Midships Bar being the prime examples) were given to homeless charities across the city. In the weeks that followed a large number of complaints were received from these charities about the condition and tatty-ness of the chairs!!

[Michael Gallagher]

The old glass piano from the original Yacht Club was sold to one of thr Hotel Managers for £12,000 when it was being removed in 1994...

[Chris]

Mr. Duffy?

[Twynkle]

The Glass Piano
Would give anything - well almost anything, to see it!
It could have sounded quite weird if it didn't have a wooden casing
Please - has anyone got a photo of it?

May we go back to the redundant furniture etc?
Isn't it really good to know that there could still be some of the older furniture still on board?
Hopefully QE2's new owners will understand that although QE2 has never looked 'glitzy', or plastered with 'bling',
like some of the newer hotels and 'cruise-ships',
She has a style that is simply unique - this needs to be maintained as her Unique Selling Point.
Please Nakheel, if you read this - when you get to her furnishings etc,
will you make sure that 'Less is More'?
Almost understated. 
This is the style to which QE2 is accustomed: it suits her best.