SHORE EXCURSIONS

The Queen couldn't have a better city to call home, and we hope you'll make time to see what treasures the LBC has to offer. Long Beach is a wonderfully diverse, freak-friendly city, famous for its subcultures, artists, musicians, and gay and lesbian community coexisting happily with Snoop Dogg, the USC Mafia, and college students who attend California State University Long Beach. The city loves its freaks, so grab some friends, abandon ship, and explore!

GETTING AROUND TOWN

Just steps from the base of the Queen's gangway, you'll find the Passport Bus, which offers FREE service to the Pike and downtown Long Beach. For a couple dollars more, you can ride past the stately mansions of former oil magnates to Belmont Shore and Naples Island.

Long Beach is also home to the Water Taxis -- AquaBus and AquaLink! The AquaBus costs $1.00 to cross Rainbow Harbor, the AquaLink will take you to Alamitos Bay for $3.00, and both are fun ways to get around and see the city's beautiful shoreline.

THINGS TO SEE IN THE LBC

Long Beach is home to the oceanfront Long Beach Art Museum, the Museum of Latin American Art, and the Aquarium of the Pacific. The Long Beach Terrace Theater hosts performing arts events throughout the year, ranging from musicals and ballet to music performances and stand-up comedy.

Downtown Long Beach and The Pike offer a vast selection of restaurants, brewpubs, and shops, and both are a short, FREE Passport bus ride away from the Queen Mary.

Other districts you may find enticing are 4th Street, home to some fantastic specialty, alternative, and vintage shops and the terrific Portfolio Coffeehouse; Broadway, the main thoroughfare of Long Beach’s famous and lively GLBT community; and Belmont Shore, a delightful district of shops, restaurants, and bars with a small-town feel.

GOLF

Long Beach has five public golf courses. Just sayin'...

FUN STUFF

We recommend the following excursions. These excursions are NOT included in the laminate price, but if there is enough interest, we will inquire after group rates. You may indicate your interest when you purchase your passage.

GHOSTS AND LEGENDS TOUR

This tour explores areas of the Queen Mary that are not open to the general public and are favourite haunts for the resident ghosts.

SCORPION - SOVIET SUBMARINE

Tour this Cold War relic, moored alongside the Queen.

AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC

Get up close and personal with some of the local wildlife! Sharks, rays, jellyfish, seals, sea lions, otters – they’re all here, and some you can even touch!

 

THE PIKE

Just across Queensway Bay from our ship, you'll find The Pike. Eat, drink, and be merry at one of the many restaurants, browse the shops, ride the big ferris wheel, or take a spin on the carousel (with Axel in the centre).

UNOFFICIAL EVENTS AND GATHERINGS

Convergence is all about people, and we encourage everyone to get up their own special interest activities. Want to get up a CorpGoth dinner, Goths on Ice, a.g.f shopping trip or clothing swap? Go for it! While these kinds of gatherings won’t be official C15 events, we will be happy to help facilitate them, so just let us know what you want to do and how we can help.