Queen Mary 2 is one of the most magnificent luxury ocean liners ever built.
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Cunard's ocean liner Queen Mary 2 arrives for its second visit to Sydney.
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The ship has biggest ballroom and dance floor among cruise ships.
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The theatres and lounges and the first planetarium inside a ship make it a floating wonder.
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Queen Mary 2 offers a 7-day Transatlantic cruise between Southampton and New York.
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The ship was constructed to eventually replace the ageing RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, the Cunard flagship from 1969 to 2004.
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Launched in March 2003, it cost a whopping $900 million to build this luxurious ship.
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Queen Mary 2 has the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) title conferred on her, as a gesture to Cunard's history, by Royal Mail when she entered service in 2004 on the Southampton to New York route.
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Queen Mary 2's facilities include fifteen restaurants and bars.
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The ship also has five swimming pools, a casino, a ballroom, a theatre, and the first planetarium at sea.
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This luxury ship has kennels on board, as well as a nursery.
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At the time of her construction in 2003 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique, Queen Mary 2 was the longest, widest and tallest passenger ship ever built.
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The ship no longer holds this distinction after the construction of Royal Caribbean International's Oasis of the Seas in October and Allure of the Seas in November 2010.
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Queen Mary 2's principal naval architect was Carnival's in-house designer, Stephen Payne.
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There are 1 250 crew members on board, catering to the passengers.
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Queen Mary 2 has a 14,164-square-metre exterior deck space, with wind screens to shield passengers as the ship travels at high speeds. Four of the ship's five swimming pools are outdoors.
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Many of the major public rooms on board Queen Mary 2 are on the lowest public decks of the ship, with the passenger cabins stacked above.
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More than 5000 commissioned works of art are seen in the Queen Mary 2's public rooms, corridors, staterooms and lobbies.
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On 12 January 2004 Queen Mary 2 set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in the United States, carrying 2,620 passengers under the command of captain Ronald Warwick.
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Freshwater aboard Queen Mary 2 is supplied primarily by three seawater desalination plants.
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