QE2 may open as floating hotel outside Dubai

Published: July 14, 2009
Tags: cruise liner, Dubai, floating hotel, Middle East, Nakheel, QE2, Queen Elizabeth II

Adam Schreck AP Business Writer Dubai, United Arab Emirates — The cash-strapped Dubai owner of the QE2 is weighing plans to open the British ocean liner as a floating hotel elsewhere in the Middle East or Africa rather than in the struggling Persian Gulf sheikdom. In an e-mail Sunday attributed to ship owner Nakheel, the [...]