Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ABOARD THE QE2 IN DUBAI — A long and elegant era ended with a bang Wednesday as the world’s last true ocean liner sailed into history, though not obscurity.

More details have emerged regarding a multi-million dollar refit that will see the QE2 remodelled into a five star hotel located on Nakheel’s Palm Jumeirah, a reclaimed island off the coast of Dubai.

This is the hard part. The crossing is over. The gangplank is down. Passengers, cloistered for a week aboard the last great transatlantic liner, now face the first unwieldy facts of real life: too ...

Every time it looks like Dubai has pushed luxury hospitality to its limits, the city unveils an even more grandiose place to hang your hat. This week is no different, as the Queen Elizabeth 2, the ...

The Queen Elizabeth 2’s Dubai owners outlined plans Monday to turn the storied cruise liner into a dockside hotel that will keep many existing furnishings intact, ending years of speculation about the ...

A businessman who holed himself up in a hotel in protest at the size of his QE2 cabin has settled his dispute with the luxury liner's operators. Bob Young and his partner Sarah Hills were due to join ...

Freelancer Suzanne Lavenas spent a week crossing the Atlantic during the final transatlantic season of the Queen Elizabeth 2. Her report follows: t's big, but other passenger ships are bigger. It's ...

Hi — remember me? I was The Denver Post’s travel editor before retiring 3 1/2 years ago. But for the next 2 1/2 weeks or so, I’ll be back, writing an online blog about a historic trip I’m taking — the ...

Cunard's Queen Elizabeth 2\QE2) — flagship of the British merchant flteet — visited the King George V drydock in S<Vthampton, England. The ship entered the drydock, now owned and operated by A&P, for ...