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A Report in The Dominion Post says that the Wellington sun came out after a grey drizzly welcome for the Queen Victoria, the newest cruise liner to visit New Zealand.
The 294m long cruise ship is half way through its inaugural world tour, and sailed into Wellington with only two empty cabins, the rest filled with about 2000 guests.
Mayor Kerry Prendergast announced Sunday would be Queen Victoria Day in honour of the ship’s visit and promoting myriad events on in the city, there were 600 guests booked on day tours of Wellington and many more have made their own way into town.
Unfortunately the combination of public events and the arrival of the liner had buses of passengers stuck in traffic as Aotea Quay backed up with the main waterfront roads closed.
As Cunard’s newest cruise liner, the $676 million Queen Victoria was launched last month in Southampton, England and is touted as harking back to the golden age of cruising.
It has more than $2 million dollars of art on board, including original sketches done by Queen Victoria and her husband Albert, and sports the first floating theatre with private boxes in the tradition of London’s West End.
The ship is on a global circumnavigation from its base in Southampton and has visited Auckland and Napier since last Friday and then departed for Melbourne.
A Report by The Mole from The Dominion Post
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