Why Cunard ABANDONED its Hotels & Resorts?
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Did you know Cunard ran the Ritz hotel, and the Watergate hotel? They also managed the Stafford and the Dukes - to name just a few. Actually, in the 1970s to 1990s Cunard had hotels in England, America, Jamaica, Barbados and St Lucia! But now they have NO hotels... what happened?
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You are a well informed Aussie to know about Watergate. I also never knew Cunard was in the hotel business.
As part of the team that went to the Falklands in 1982 on QE2, Trafalgar House gifted us a fully expensed overnight stay at the Ritz on our return, for ourselves and our + 1, really fab.
Also had some great beach parties at La Toc when we were in with time off from a ship😂!
Oh wow! The QE2 Falklands experience must have been quite something!
@ChrisFrameOfficial Happy to talk it through with you som time Chris, I'm travelling on QA with my wife on 28th July if you're on, our son is Deputy Captain onboard. Cheers
@@PJ-mv1qb sounds amazing! Otherwise we need to get you on the podcast!! If you’re keen please reach out thebigcruisepodcast.com 😊
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Hi Chris, I stayed at the La Toc in St Lucia a few times in the 80's with my family
What was it like?
Beautiful and very friendly - its now owned by Sandals
@@robp4682 yes I stayed there too as a teenager with my parents in one of the bungalows on the headland; it was a truly exceptional resort, beautifully manicured but maintaining the Caribbean West Indian vibe with golf buggies to get us about; such a shame it has become commercialised sandals with a plastic pool where you really could be anywhere.
I didn't know they had a hotel and resort but cool!
Excellent fantastic hotels!
Love this. When we were on Cunard Countess in 1983, one of our tours was a day at Cunard’s Hotel La Toc in St Lucia.
Very insightful
Its hard to understand how Cunard went from hotels and a large fleet to just 1 ship when Carnival saved them.....Cunard Air Next! See you onboard soon Chris.
I did not know! Great video and great piece of history thanks Chris
Wow hotels
Cunard also ran an airline!
I’m sure the next post will be about BOAC Cunard; those who are interested can see a preserved VC10 in BOAC Cunard Livery at the British National Air Collection in Duxford, Cambridgeshire,
Did you ever stay at a Cunard hotel?
Never in my life cuz I've never been to other countries. I'm just here in my home country, Philippines. 😢
Wow I never knew
Did cunard ever operate river cruises? I've heard they did but never found any evidence of it
Yes! They did! I will do a video about that one day too!
I do know that a few years ago while the Queen Victoria was on a voyage to South America, she sailed up the Amazon river all the way to the far reaching inland city of Manaus. At the time I thought this was an incredible achievement for an ocean going vessel of the size of Queen Victoria.
Never know this
We stayed at La Toc a few times in the 70's, loved the place. We would get one of the villas for a month (thanks dad), but as ever, Trafalgar House really were clueless. In fact if in the 70's and 80's you wanted to make a lot of money, do the exact opposite of whatever they were doing. Take the container ships, 42 container ships with 18 more on order, oh look the world is switching to a global economy, well sell all those container ships, ah yes, a global recession is coming, let's invest in commercial property using variable rate loans, then try and hide the interest off the books. The main issue was, they were spread across to many types of businesses with the head office not listening to the people that actually knew something about the segment.