Our ships Queen Victoria

In numbers: Queen Victoria

The smallest of our Queens, Queen Victoria offers a warm and familiar cosiness that has charmed guests ever since her launch in 2007. But what makes her different to her sisters? How fast can she sail? And most importantly: how many eggs are used on board each year?

4 min 11 Feb 2025

Build and launch

Staterooms and suites

Key numbers

Venues and special features

Dining

Wellness and beauty

Fun facts

Build and launch

Like her sisters, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Anne, Queen Victoria was built in the Fincantieri Monfalcone Shipyard in Italy. She was named by her godmother, Queen Camilla (then Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall) later that year, and set sail on her maiden voyage to Northern Europe in 2007.

Although similar in design to Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria has her differences. The main one being her more sloping, angular, stern (Queen Elizabeth has a more vertical one).

Queen Victoria is designed as a modern classic, reflecting our rich history, heritage, and tradition. She features grand public rooms, sweeping staircases, gleaming crystal chandeliers, intricate mosaics, rich wood panelling, and spacious decks.

Her exciting on-board innovations include the first West End-style theatre boxes at sea and the first ocean-going two-storey library (both replicated in 2010 when Queen Elizabeth joined the fleet), and a grand colonial-style Winter Garden, complete with retractable glass roof.

Queen Victoria sails the Mediterranean sea

Staterooms and suites

Queen Victoria is home to a total of 1,035 staterooms. There are nine different types of accommodation, from Britannia Inside staterooms all the way to Grand Suites, offering up to 144m² of space. The ship’s six main suites – Mauretania (pictured), Laconia, Aquitania, Berengaria, Carpathia, and Caronia - are named after famous Cunard liners.

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Venues and special features

Guests embark Queen Victoria via an impressive triple-height Grand Lobby where the focal point is a huge, bas-relief of the ship at sea.

Her three-storey Royal Court Theatre can seat 800 guests and the library on board Queen Victoria spans two decks, linked by a spiral staircase. Home to around 6,000 books, as well as journals and periodicals, the library also provides quiet places to read, and an on board book club.

Outside, guests can enjoy open-air sports decks with paddle tennis, deck quoits, shuffleboard, and two outdoor pools.

Dining

Queen Victoria has four main dining rooms, each associated with one of her accommodation grades on board. The Britannia Restaurant is inspired by the carriages of the Orient Express, and dining here always feels special. The Britannia Club restaurant is an elegant and luxurious room with an intimate dining club atmosphere. The sophisticated and intimate Princess Grill restaurant serves up excellent cuisine alongside renowned wines, whereas the Queens Grill restaurant boasts the finest ingredients, prepared by the very best chefs, making every meal a culinary event.

In addition to her main dining rooms, Queen Victoria also offers several alternative dining options. Steakhouse at The Verandah celebrates the best of land and sea, with ingredients sourced from both sides of the Atlantic. The Chart Room, a favourite bar in the evenings, is open during the daytime for pastries and light refreshments, along with barista coffee. The Golden Lion, inspired by British pubs, is the place to indulge in hearty fare, like fish and chips and sticky toffee pudding. The informal Lido Restaurant offers buffet-style breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus a cooked-to-order pizza bar. At night, part of the restaurant transforms into Dinner at the Lido, with a rotating destination-based menu featuring regional ingredients. On deck, the Lido Grill is open for casual al fresco dining, a quick poolside snack, or a refreshing drink in the sun.

Wellness and beauty

Mareel Wellness and Beauty is Queen Victoria’s on board spa and salon. Everything – from the décor to the treatments – is inspired by the oceans on which Queen Victoria and her sister ships sail. The facilities include a large thalassotherapy pool, a wellness suite for seaweed bathing rituals, a meditation room with acoustic resonance loungers, sound therapy facilities, a fitness centre and studio space, and a large gymnasium with floor to ceiling windows for the perfect sea view.

Fun facts

Queen Victoria features 12 guest decks and towers almost 55 metres above the waterline, almost equal to the height of a 20-storey building.
Queen Victoria’s art collection features more than 500 pieces, including some original etchings by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
The ship has three anchors – two are in use and one is carried as a spare.
Annually, Queen Victoria’s passengers and crew consume 954,681 cups of tea, 26,789 kg of coffee, the equivalent of 19,285 standard-sized boxes of breakfast cereal, over 109,000 litres of fruit juice, 200,000 kg of potatoes, 1,528,707 fresh eggs and 351,900 bottles of wine.