Tickets for QE2’s final voyage are snapped up in 36 minutes

Tickets to join the final voyage of the cruise ship QE2, before she is converted into a floating hotel, sold out in just 36 minutes.

More than £3 million was spent by passengers who will occupy the 1,800 berths when she leaves Southampton on November 11 next year. Two couples who booked the Grand Suites paid nearly £18,000 per person for the 16-night, one-way trip to Dubai. Berths in the cheapest accommodation, a standard inside cabin, were sold for more than £4,000 each....