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It wouldn't surprise me at all if Cunard canceled additional calls to New Caledonia. They have canceled the calls to Lifou and Noumea on QE's current repositioning cruise to Australia. They have substituted a call to Port Vila instead on the current cruise.

You can find all the new voyages on the Cunard website using the brute-force approach with the voyage number included in the URL. M611A: https://www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a-cruise/M611A/M611A M611B: https://www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a-cruise/M611B/M611B M611C: https://www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a-cruise/M611C/M611C M611D: https://www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a-cruise/M611D/M611D M611E: https://www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a-cruise/M611E/M611E M611F: https://www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a-cruise/M611F/M611F M611N: https://www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a-cruise/M611N/M611N M611P: https://www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a-cruise/M611P/M611P M611Q: https://www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a-cruise/M611Q/M611Q M611R: https://www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a-cruise/M611R/M611R M611S: https://www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a-cruise/M611S/M611S M611T: https://www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a-cruise/M611T/M611T

We've heard cases where those who have booked entire cruise packages through a travel agent which include flights and/or hotels arranged by that agent have been denied the shareholder OBC. I book using an online cruise booking site who offer a significant savings over booking directly with Cunard and have always received the shareholder OBC. But the site I book with isn't a consolidator/bucket shop. One of the key terms I've learned along the way is if you've received a "net rate" cruise fare, that does not qualify for the shareholder OBC.

I know there has been quite a bit of back and forth in the past about Future Cruise Deposits being available to purchase on board by North America guests. I have no experience with that, but I did find this Cunard pdf file which seems to indicate the purchase of Future Cruise Deposits may have ended for North America guests as of July 1, 2024. Of course I'll gladly stand corrected if this is not the case. https://cruise.cunard.com/assets/responsysimages/content/cunardus/OnboardBookingsFAQs.pdf

Keep in mind you can generally have Cunard transfer your booking made on board to your travel agent to apply their discounted fare and on their board credit as well. Naturally that will be the fare at the time of booking so if the fares go up between now and when you are on board, that would mitigate savings you could get by booking now. And as @Victoria2 has pointed out, your desired category of accommodation might sell out. Of course it could go both ways with the fare possibly going down by the time you are on board.

Sorry, make that $1.33 = £1.00. That's the exchange rate I was using to calculate the US fares for voyage M611E at 19% to 36% higher than the UK fares.

I still can't find the new voyages using a search by date on the Cunard US website, nor can I find the June 10th roundtrip voyage M611E in the Cunard UK search results (which you mentioned previously). But that voyage can be retrieved by voyage number using this URL: https://www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a-cruise/M611E/M611E You may be interested to hear that even with the current relatively high exchange rate of approximately $1.32 = £1.00 (which tends to skew the UK fares closer to the US fares), the "From" fares quoted for voyage M611E on the Cunard US website are still 19% to 36% higher than the "From" fares quoted on the UK website.

The crossing schedule for 2023 was already lower than usual because QM2 was in drydock between 22 October and 15 November. Then two of the scheduled crossings in April were canceled because of the technical issue found at the end of the 2023 world voyage.

I'm reviving this old thread to update it with the figures for 2026 now that Cunard have added four more crossings to the schedule during May-June 2026. QM2 Crossings Per Year 2004 = 15 2005 = 26 2006 = 20 2007 = 23 2008 = 24 2009 = 23 2010 = 21 2011 = 21 2012 = 20 2013 = 18 2014 = 18 2015 = 22 2016 = 21 2017 = 24 2018 = 24 2019 = 24 2020 = 1 2021 = 1 2022 = 25 2023 = 16 2024 = 20 2025 = 24 2026 = 23 Total QM2 crossings through 2026 = 454.

Does your boarding pass say "Loyalty tier: RED"? That indicates Cunard thinks you are a first time cruiser. I'd recommend making sure your correct Cunard World Club number (the one with all your previous voyage history and its associated loyalty tier) has been assigned to this booking. It might be the case that a new first-time Cunard World Club number has been assigned to this booking. You'll want to make sure the correct Cunard World Club number is on your booking in order to receive the associated onboard benefits during this voyage and also to make sure this voyage adds to your previous voyage history rather than starting a new voyage history with a new Cunard World Club number.

I saw a posting about this elsewhere so I did some further digging myself for the details. Apparently Cunard is filling the previous gap in QM2's schedule for 15 May-24 June 2026 with new voyages. That's the gap we had been assuming was going to be a drydock for QM2's next extended (mid-life) refit. Now the following voyages are being planned instead. Nothing yet on the Cunard website but these can be found now on various travel agent sites complete with fares. QM2 (New 2026 Voyages) 15-May-26 - Southampton (M611N) 17-May-26 - Stavanger 18-May-26 - Skjolden 19-May-26 - Olden 20-May-26 - Hardangerfjord 22-May-26 - Southampton (M611P) (M611A roundtrip) 29-May-26 - New York (M611Q) (M611B to Le Havre) (M611C roundtrip through 17 Jun) 5-Jun-26 - Southampton (M611R) 6-Jun-26 - Zeebrugge 8-Jun-26 - Le Havre (M611D to New York) 9-Jun-26 - Cherbourg 10-Jun-26 - Southampton (M611S) (M611E roundtrip) 17-Jun-26 - New York (M611T) (M611F roundtrip through 3 Jul) 24-Jun-26 - Southampton That's four more crossings for 2026, bringing the 2026 scheduled total for QM2 to 23 crossings according to my count.

One more piece of confirmation for the 2027 cruise schedules. I hadn't checked for a port authority website for Townsville, Australia before. There is one and it has Queen Victoria scheduled there on 1 March 2027 which matches the 2027 world voyage itinerary I found. And one more detail for anyone wanting to do some very long-term planning. The Madeira port authority website happens to have Queen Mary 2 listed on the schedule for Funchal on 26 January 2028.

No signs of any changes yet to the Queen Anne 2026 world voyage itinerary that I'm seeing. Cunard announced the change to Queen Anne's 2025 world voyage (to reroute the final segment from Singapore to Southampton via Cape Town instead of Dubai) in April, so we may have a few more months until a decision is made to change the 2026 itinerary. But in any event, I agree with @Poole Boy that any changes to the 2026 itinerary will likely impact the initial segment from Southampton to Singapore. At this point, I would not anticipate any changes to the segments calling in Australia.

Unfortunately I don't know what earliest departure time constraints Cunard might put on the Seattle transfers. I have Southampton transfer booking forms for Heathrow and Gatwick which specify they are only for flights departing 2:00pm or later. The transfer booking forms I have for the New York airports (La Guardia, JFK and Newark) specify they are only for flights departing 1:00pm or later.

In Brooklyn, the setup is different from Southampton with regard to the order of check-in and the security screening. The security screening comes first at Brooklyn with no separate line for grills guests that I'm aware of. Once through security, there is a separate priority check-in line for grills guests and anyone else with priority because of their Cunard World Club status. We've found that line is often long enough by the time we've made it through security that sometimes it doesn't offer much of an advantage over those in line for non-priority check-in. But once you've made it through check-in and if boarding hasn't started yet, there is a separate priority waiting room at Brooklyn where grills guests are invited to board first once boarding starts.

On the Cunard US website, they offer transfers on their 2025 cruises from Seattle. Here are the prices per person quoted for their various transfer options on those Seattle cruises. Group Transfer Port To Airport: $50 Executive Car Port To Airport: $80 Mini-Van Port To Airport: $110

The latest counts from QM2's departure today indicate the highest crew count I've heard recently. September 15, 2024: 2442 passengers and 1267 crew

Cunard has an intranet site called "My Voyage" which you access via your device's browser once on board the ship. That's sometimes referred to as an app, but it's not an app in the conventional sense of something you install from an app store.

Sorry, one correction to this itinerary as I have edited above. 20-Mar-27 - Port Canaveral (not Orlando).

I can comment on the recent passenger and crew counts which QM2 has reported to Southampton VTS upon departure from Southampton. May 16, 2024: 2419 passengers and 1245 crew May 30, 2024: 2591 passengers and 1252 crew June 9, 2024: 2442 passengers and 1249 crew July 14, 2024: 2622 passengers and 1246 crew July 21, 2024: 2508 passengers and 1251 crew August 16, 2024: 2445 passengers and 1242 crew August 30, 2024: 2449 passengers and 1220 crew September 11, 2024: 2554 passengers and 1253 crew

Queen Anne (Post South America) 2-Apr-27 - Southampton 3-Apr-27 - Zeebrugge 5-Apr-27 - Hamburg 7-Apr-27 - Southampton 9-Apr-27 - Vigo 12-Apr-27 - Barcelona 14-Apr-27 - Alghero 15-Apr-27 - Cagliari 17-Apr-27 - Malaga 18-Apr-27 - Gibraltar 21-Apr-27 - Southampton 23-Apr-27 - Ferrol 26-Apr-27 - Agadir 27-Apr-27 - Casablanca 28-Apr-27 - Tangier 29-Apr-27 - Cadiz 2-May-27 - Southampton

Queen Elizabeth 24-Sep-26 - Seattle 27-Sep-26 - San Francisco 29-Sep-26 - Los Angeles 1-Oct-26 - Cabo San Lucas 5-Oct-26 - Acajutla 8-Oct-26 - Fuerte Amadour 9-Oct-26 - Panama Canal Transit 10-Oct-26 - Cartagena 12-Oct-26 - Ornajestad 15-Oct-26 - Miami 18-Oct-26 - San Juan 19-Oct-26 - Antigua 20-Oct-26 - Castries 21-Oct-26 - Bridgetown 23-Oct-26 - Philipsburg 24-Oct-26 - Road Town 27-Oct-26 - Miami 29-Oct-26 - Grand Turk 31-Oct-26 - Willemstad 1-Nov-26 - Kralendijk 2-Nov-26 - Oranjestad 5-Nov-26 - Miami 8-Nov-26 - San Juan 9-Nov-26 - Antigua 10-Nov-26 - Castries 11-Nov-26 - Bridgetown 13-Nov-26 - Philipsburg 14-Nov-26 - Road Town 17-Nov-26 - Miami 19-Nov-26 - Grand Cayman 20-Nov-26 - Montego Bay 22-Nov-26 - Roatan Island 23-Nov-26 - Puerto Costa Maya 24-Nov-26 - Cozumel 26-Nov-26 - Miami 29-Nov-26 - San Juan 30-Nov-26 - Antigua 1-Dec-26 - Castries 2-Dec-26 - Bridgetown 4-Dec-26 - Philipsburg 5-Dec-26 - Road Town 8-Dec-26 - Miami 10-Dec-26 - Grand Cayman 11-Dec-26 - Montego Bay 13-Dec-26 - Roatan Island 14-Dec-26 - Puerto Costa Maya 15-Dec-26 - Cozumel 17-Dec-26 - Miami 20-Dec-26 - San Juan 21-Dec-26 - Antigua 22-Dec-26 - Castries 23-Dec-26 - Bridgetown 24-Dec-26 - Bridgetown 26-Dec-26 - Philipsburg 29-Dec-26 - Miami 31-Dec-26 - Grand Cayman 1-Jan-27 - Montego Bay 3-Jan-27 - Roatan Island 4-Jan-27 - Puerto Costa Maya 5-Jan-27 - Cozumel 7-Jan-27 - Miami 10-Jan-27 - San Juan 11-Jan-27 - Antigua 12-Jan-27 - Castries 13-Jan-27 - Bridgetown 15-Jan-27 - Philpsburg 16-Jan-27 - Road Town 19-Jan-27 - Miami 21-Jan-27 - Grand Turk 23-Jan-27 - Willemstad 24-Jan-27 - Kralendijk 25-Jan-27 - Oranjestad 28-Jan-27 - Miami 29-Jan-27 - Nassau 31-Jan-27 - Amber Cove 1-Feb-27 - Grand Turk 3-Feb-27 - Half Moon Cay 4-Feb-27 - Miami 7-Feb-27 - San Juan 8-Feb-27 - Antigua 9-Feb-27 - Fort de France 10-Feb-27 - Bridgetown 12-Feb-27 - Philipsburg 13-Feb-27 - Road Town 16-Feb-27 - Miami 18-Feb-27 - Grand Cayman 19-Feb-27 - Montego Bay 21-Feb-27 - Roatan Island 22-Feb-27 - Puerto Costa Maya 23-Feb-27 - Cozumel 25-Feb-27 - Miami 28-Feb-27 - San Juan 1-Mar-27 - Antigua 2-Mar-27 - Roseau 3-Mar-27 - Bridgetown 5-Mar-27 - Philipsburg 6-Mar-27 - Road Town 9-Mar-27 - Miami 11-Mar-27 - Grand Cayman 12-Mar-27 - Montego Bay 14-Mar-27 - Roatan Island 15-Mar-27 - Puerto Costa Maya 16-Mar-27 - Cozumel 18-Mar-27 - Miami 21-Mar-27 - San Juan 22-Mar-27 - Antigua 23-Mar-27 - Castries 24-Mar-27 - Bridgetown 26-Mar-27 - Philipsburg 27-Mar-27 - Road Town 30-Mar-27 - Miami 2-Apr-27 - Charlotte Amalie 3-Apr-27 - Philipsburg 5-Apr-27 - Bridgetown 6-Apr-27 - Bridgetown 8-Apr-27 - Willemstad 9-Apr-27 - Kralendijk 10-Apr-27 - Oranjestad 13-Apr-27 - Miami

Queen Mary 2 11-Jan-27 - Southampton 15-Jan-27 - Funchal 22-Jan-27 - Basseterre 24-Jan-27 - Bridgetown 25-Jan-27 - Bridgetown 27-Jan-27 - Castries 28-Jan-27 - Grenada 29-Jan-27 - Roseau 30-Jan-27 - English Harbour 1-Feb-27 - Amber Cove 3-Feb-27 - Philipsburg 10-Feb-27 - Tenerife 14-Feb-27 - Southampton 16-Feb-27 - Vigo 17-Feb-27 - Lisbon 18-Feb-27 - Lisbon 21-Feb-27 - Southampton 23-Feb-27 - Ferrol 26-Feb-27 - Funchal 27-Feb-27 - Funchal 2-Mar-27 - Dakar 4-Mar-27 - Mindelo 5-Mar-27 - Mindelo 8-Mar-27 - Tenerife 9-Mar-27 - Lanzarote 11-Mar-27 - Lisbon 14-Mar-27 - Southampton 17-Mar-27 - Trondheim 19-Mar-27 - Tromso 20-Mar-27 - Tromso 22-Mar-27 - Andalsnes 23-Mar-27 - Bergen 26-Mar-27 - Southampton 27-Mar-27 - Rotterdam 28-Mar-27 - Rotterdam 30-Mar-27 - Southampton

Queen Anne South America Voyage 10-Jan-27 - Southampton 18-Jan-27 - Hamilton 21-Jan-27 - Port Canaveral 22-Jan-27 - Fort Lauderdale 24-Jan-27 - Grand Turk 27-Jan-27 - Bridgetown 1-Feb-27 - Fortaleza 4-Feb-27 - Salvador 6-Feb-27 - Buzios 7-Feb-27 - Rio de Janeiro 8-Feb-27 - Rio de Janeiro 9-Feb-27 - Santos 12-Feb-27 - Montevideo 13-Feb-27 - Buenos Aires 14-Feb-27 - Buenos Aires 17-Feb-27 - Puerto Madryn 19-Feb-27 - Beagle Channel 20-Feb-27 - Ushuaia 21-Feb-27 - Cape Horn 22-Feb-27 - Punta Arenas 23-Feb-27 - Amalia Glacier 24-Feb-27 - PIO X Glacier 26-Feb-27 - Puerto Montt 28-Feb-27 - San Antonio 1-Mar-27 - San Antonio 2-Mar-27 - Coquimbo 5-Mar-27 - Arica 7-Mar-27 - Callao 8-Mar-27 - Callao 11-Mar-27 - Manta 13-Mar-27 - Fuerte Amador 14-Mar-27 - Panama Canal Transit 16-Mar-27 - Oranjestad 19-Mar-27 - Fort Lauderdale 20-Mar-27 - Orlando 29-Mar-27 - Ponta Delgada 2-Apr-27 - Southampton

I've found all the port details for the new itineraries. As before, I'll post the itineraries for one ship at a time. Queen Victoria 7-Nov-26 - Southampton 9-Nov-26 - Zeebrugge 10-Nov-26 - Cherbourg 11-Nov-26 - Southampton 15-Nov-26 - Funchal 16-Nov-26 - Tenerife 17-Nov-26 - Lanzarote 19-Nov-26 - Agadir 21-Nov-26 - Casablanca 22-Nov-26 - Tangier 24-Nov-26 - Lisbon 27-Nov-26 - Southampton 29-Nov-26 - Zeebrugge 30-Nov-26 - Amsterdam 1-Dec-26 - Amsterdam 3-Dec-26 - Cherbourg 4-Dec-26 - Southampton 8-Dec-26 - Funchal 9-Dec-26 - La Palma 10-Dec-26 - Tenerife 11-Dec-26 - Lanzarote 13-Dec-26 - Lisbon 16-Dec-26 - Southampton 19-Dec-26 - Lisbon 21-Dec-26 - Funchal 22-Dec-26 - Tenerife 23-Dec-26 - Las Palmas 24-Dec-26 - Lanzarote 28-Dec-26 - Southampton 29-Dec-26 - Zeebrugge 31-Dec-26 - Amsterdam 1-Jan-27 - Amsterdam 3-Jan-27 - Southampton 5-Jan-27 - Ferrol 6-Jan-27 - Vigo 7-Jan-27 - Lisbon World Voyage 10-Jan-27 - Southampton 18-Jan-27 - New York 19-Jan-27 - New York 24-Jan-27 - Oranjestad 26-Jan-27 - Panama Canal Transit 29-Jan-27 - Acajutla 1-Feb-27 - Puerto Vallarta 4-Feb-27 - Los Angeles 5-Feb-27 - Los Angeles 10-Feb-27 - Hilo 11-Feb-27 - Honolulu 14-Feb-27 - International Date Line 19-Feb-27 - Lautoka 21-Feb-27 - Noumea 24-Feb-27 - Sydney 25-Feb-27 - Sydney 28-Feb-27 - Airlie Beach 1-Mar-27 - Townsville 2-Mar-27 - Cairns 8-Mar-27 - Bitung 10-Mar-27 - Puerto Princesa 12-Mar-27 - Manila 14-Mar-27 - Hong Kong 15-Mar-27 - Hong Kong 17-Mar-27 - Chan May 19-Mar-27 - Phu My 21-Mar-27 - Singapore 22-Mar-27 - Singapore 23-Mar-27 - Port Kelang 30-Mar-27 - Port Louis 31-Mar-27 - Le Port 4-Apr-27 - Durban 7-Apr-27 - Port Elizabeth 9-Apr-27 - Cape Town 10-Apr-27 - Cape Town 13-Apr-27 - Walvis Bay 21-Apr-27 - Dakar 24-Apr-27 - Tenerife 25-Apr-27 - Funchal 26-Apr-27 - Funchal 30-Apr-27 - Southampton 2-May-27 - Hamburg