Spotted by Mac who wrote in to say: I read in yesterday’s Travel
section of the Washington Post that a couple taking the Queen Mary
2 had picked out cabin but a few days before sailing were notified
that they had been upgraded to the Deluxe Deck 8.  They found
out the upgrade was really a down grade although four decks up.
 There was a 150 person lifeboat outside their window.
 They said “it was like a tractor trailer blocking their
view.” They looked in brochure and noticed a tiny asterisk at
bottom page of brochure that some cabins had obstructed views. They
were not able to change back or change.  They wrote that while
the Queen Mary 2 does fulfil the promise of being the longest,
tallest, grandest ocean liner ever most of the cabins on Deck 8
(deluxe deck) are behind lifeboats. While most of you wont be
booking passage on the Queen Mary 2.  I wonder if one when
booking on a ship gets to see layout of cabin with obstructed
views. The few times I was on ship I had not view but was out of
cabin except for sleeping up on deck so it did not make much
difference.