First Class Cabins and Suites
The Queen Mary had featured some of the best first class accomodations afloat. Many lines opted to spend much for the elegance that thier rooms recieved, but Cunard decided to go for a more economic cost than those other lines. Cunard decided to use softwoods instead of hardwoods in the room decoration. Pines, maple, and Canadian Birch were some of the woods featured. This provided the QM with yet another unique aspect, the lighter color woods were rarely used in other ships, this created charm for such rooms.
One room could be transfered into almost anything, as shown above. This is one of the suites that the Queen Mary had. The photo on the left shows the room as it was in the '50's, the scan of an ad shows the room as it originally was.
Of course this was not the only design available. The images below show even more first class state rooms. I would prefer these over any penthouse suite available today.
| Every first class room had its own distictive properties, as shown on this page. One of the more beautiful, and not easily convertable suites. Sadly, this on no longer exists due to the Long Beach conversion, this room was entirely gutted and rebuilt to be part of another room. From the looks of it, the room sported nearly ivory in color wood paneling. |  |
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And a room would not be complete without the washroom, or bathroom for who use that designation. So here I have included that room. Notice the four different faucet heads, this was a feature not on any other lin- ers(that I believe). Two faucets were salt water hot and cold, and the other two were fresh water hot and cold. Each first class room had a restroom, a feature not on liners only a decade ealier. Currently, there is now a hotel one piece type faucet for use in the rooms, this was due a fact a guest burnt themselves because they could not figure out how to work the faucet. |
Created: 4/8/98
Modified: 8/13/98
