Cunard's Queen Mary 2 Returns From World Cruise


Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2 to Return to New York After Completing Her 2016 World Cruise
Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2 to Return to New York After Completing Her 2016 World Cruise
5/17/2016 - Cunard's legendary Queen Mary 2 will return from her world cruise. Having left  New York on January 17, 2016 - the 120+ day voyage circumnavigated South America, across the Pacific to New Zealand and Australia, to Asia,  the Med, Northern Europe and back to New York.

The Queen Mary 2 will arrive in New York (Brooklyn) early on Tuesday (5/17) morning and depart later that afternoon on a transatlantic voyage to Southampton, England and then on to Hamburg, Germany (where the cruise ends).


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