Fourth of July Getaway - 5 nights, July 2013

5 nights
Departure date
1 July 2013
End date
6 July 2013
Departing from
New York
Cruise number
M311
cruise enjoyed on Queen Mary 2

Ports of call

  • New York
  • Halifax
  • Boston
  • Boston
  • New York

From $969 per person

Inside Stateroom

Government fees and taxes of $90.14 are additional.

Government fees and taxes of $90.14 are additional.

Stateroom Queens Grillinfo Princess Grillinfo Club Balconyinfo Balconyinfo Ocean Viewinfo Insideinfo
Cruise Only $4,499 Sold Out $2,099 $1,399 Sold Out $969
Original $4,499 $3,249   $1,749 $1,599 $1,349

Fares are per person, do not include air travel, do not include Government Fees and Taxes, are voyage only, based on double occupancy and apply to the first two guests in a state room. These fares do not apply to singles or third/fourth-berth guests. Fares are quoted in U.S. Dollars. Cunard reserves the right to impose a fuel supplement of up to $9 per person per day on all passengers if the NYMEX oil price exceeds $70 per barrel, even if fares have been paid in full. If you do not see the embarkation port you are trying to book, please call Cunard at (800) 728-6273 for further assistance.

Onboard Speakers

  • Bill Miller

    Bill Miller

    Bill Miller - known as "Mr Ocean Liner" - has written over 70 books about passenger ships, both past and present. He has lectured aboard over 75 cruise liners in the past 35 years, and has traveled on over 350 voyages aboard some 250 different ships.

    He has prepared the passenger ship databaser for the Ellis Island Museum, been deputy director of the New York Harbor Festival and currently is Curator of 20th Century Maritime History for New York City's South Street Seaport Museum. He also serves on the American Maritime Hall of Fame and is Assistant Editor of OCEAN & CRUISE NEWS. He also prepares weekly ocean liner & cruising e-news.  
     
    Miller has appeared in over three dozen television documentaries and numerous TV news broadcasts. Most recently, he appeared in LADY IN WAITING: THE STORY OF THE SS UNITED STATES.

  • Seth Gopin

    Seth Gopin

    The diversity of Dr. Gopin’s interests is amazing. The intertwining of art, history, and culture fascinates him and this is conveyed in his lectures, which have been popular with Cunard passengers. He served the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government-in-Exile as editor of their Newsletter for North America.

    LECTURES

    1. The Face of a Nation: English Portraiture
    From medieval times to the present, the portraits of English nobility and wealthy businessmen have gone from portraying external characteristics to exploring internal emotions and psyches.This lecture explores the tradition of portraying the nation and will also make everyone think about composing better photographs of their family and friends.

    2. The Englishness of English Architecture: "from Palladio to Pugin"
    This lecture explores the history of English architecture from the Renaissance to the 19th Century, and will consider if there is a distinct English sensibility.

    3. Hogarth Pokes Fun at a Nation: "Satire and Art"
    This lecture explores the witty images of William Hogarth, a pictorial satirist and social critic par excellence. Through his paintings and prints he poked fun at a nation, from the rich and politically powerful aristocracy to the lowly drunks of London.

    4.Tom Paine in Lewes: "The English Roots of An American Patriot"
    Born in Thetford and formed in Lewes, this free thinker traveled to the New World and with his pen changed the course of Western democracy. Become acquainted with the places in England where Paine lived and worked, the free-thinking society of Lewes which helped transform Paine’s way of thinking, and learn about the principles of human rights that he espoused and which helped inspire the American and French revolutions.

    Number of talks depends on number of sea days! The final programme will be given on board

  • Simon Newman

    Simon Newman

    Simon Newman is the Sir Denis Brogan Professor of History at the University of Glasgow. He has expertise in the history of the American Revolution and the early American republic, the relationship between Britain and America, and American politics and society.

    He has degrees from the University of Nottingham, the University of Wisconsin, and Princeton University, and he has held academic posts at Northern Illinois University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Glasgow.

    His books include:

    • Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic (1997)
    • Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia (2003)
    • Europe’s American Revolution (2006)
    • Essays on Benjamin Franklin, American Protestantism, the slave trade and plantation slavery, and British views of America.

    He has received numerous fellowships and prizes in both the US and the UK, and currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2010-2012). A member of the Advisory Council of the Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, Virginia, and of the advisory council of the Institute for the Study of the Americas in London, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.