Queen Mary Hotel

The Bottom Line: Hotel within an elegant ocean liner full of ghosts and history, now permanently docked.

Guest Rooms and Rates:
Inside Staterooms from $81
Royalty Suites from $450
Rates include admission to the Queen Mary attraction, and a complimentary self-guided Shipwreck tour.
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Haunted History: This hotel is said to be haunted. Ghosts of the Queen Mary Hotel

Haunted Tour: I spent a day recently hunting for ghosts aboard Queen Mary.

Location of the Queen Mary Hotel:
On the water in Long Beach, south of Los Angeles. Eight miles from Long Beach Airport; 23 miles from Los Angeles International Airport; 25 miles from Orange County's John Wayne International Airport. Compare Flights

Contact the Queen Mary Hotel:
1126 Queens Highway, P.O. Box 1100, Long Beach, California 90802
phone: 562.435.3511; email: queenmry@gte.net
web site: Queen Mary Hotel

Description: Considered the most luxurious ocean liner ever to sail the Atlantic, the Queen Mary first set sail in 1934, carrying 3,000 passengers and crew. Once host to celebrities such as Fred Astaire, Clark Gable and Greta Garbo, she made her way from Great Britain to New York with style and grace. Refitted during World War II, the ship carried as many as 16,000 troops at a time and even became a floating hospital for a while. After 1,001 voyages across the ocean, the Queen Mary was permanently docked in Long Beach in 1967, where it is both an Art Deco hotel and an interactive museum.

Property Highlights:

• 365 staterooms and suites
• Air conditioning, televisions and Internet access
• Ballrooms and meeting rooms
• On board spa, shopping and dining
• Royal Wedding Chapel
• Shipwreck each October is a Halloween walk-through spook house snaking through the ship
• Ghosts & Legends is a $4 million special effects walk-through tour that dramatizes many of the ghost stories reported on the ship
• Russian submarine "Scorpion" is docked alongside

Guest Reviews

• "The Queen Mary is a great place to stay BUT don't stay there at a weekend..."
  4 out of 5 -- Holly, visited November 2006
  
• "My husband and I agree that SOMETHING changed at this hotel..."
  4 out of 5 -- Mary, visited November 2006
  
• "The Queen Mary executives should be ashamed of themselves..."
  4 out of 5 -- Aubrey, visited November 2006
  
• "We had the time of our lives. It was an amazing experience..."
  5 out of 5 -- Shuttlepet, visited May 2004
  

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