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I was a dining room captain aboard the American Queen 1996. A marvelous experience working with a spectacular crew.

Not even their brochures show the ship as you did. Excellent.

As a resident of Paducah, KY (where the American Queen docks many times each summer), I'd often see the boats from dry land and wonder what it looked like inside. This was terrific! Makes me want to go on it, even though it's literally in my back yard! Thanks for the wonderful work.

Love the Victorian (Gilded Age) ambiance. The open decks are a huge plus in my book. One of the things that really irritates me about modern cruise ships is their propensity to resemble floating condominiums. Even the QM2 fell victim.

The Majestic American Queen had her last cruise today, she went under her own power to Houma LA where she is likely to be scrapped. Known Queensmen aboard were Captain Bert Suarez and Engineer Robert Hyde. A Scottish fellow killed her a few years ago with the Countess, but she held on as long as she could.

Bucket list!

I had the pleasure of working on this beautiful Vessel

What a beautiful river boat! Thank you for another fantastic video and look forward to your vlog.

Absolutely LOVE that the Entrance to the Cabins are from the Deck!!

You always give excellent tours … and this one was fabulous. What a gorgeous boat and loving designed. Thank you for this wonderful video.

I loved this video so much and can think of many people who would be in 7th Heaven on this trip because of their love of Mark Twain and history. Between your marvelous voice and the lovely jazz music this was another gem of a video. I truly mean it when I say I enjoy your videos more than stuff I have seen on the Travel Channel. Not quite sure how I feel about the public balconies off the rooms. On one hand it makes for a nice additional entrance and exit into your room but it mainly negates the purpose of having a private balcony: to enjoy the lovely scenery in peaceful serenity.

442 likes - this video was EXCEPTIONAL.. makes me want to go on a cruise!

This looks like it would be such an awesome cruise.

I was employed on this vessel back in 2002-2006, actually worked on all 3 steamboats. First being the Mississippi Queen. Anyway, I'm glad the new company has spruced her up a bit. Thanks for the internal views. It brings back good memories.

We are going to look into this. Thank you 😊

We love the open verandas. Have met many people that way. Even had a bit of a party with all the neighbors. Delightful.

I've sailed on both the American Queen and the Delta queen back when they were owned by the Delta Queen Steamboat Co. The A.Q. is truly a magnificent boat.

I love that boat!

A Fantabulous tour of an amazing "time capsule"!! Perhaps a better way to say it would be: " Mighty fine!! ; ya all have a good day now! "

Lovely quality video as always. And what a beautifully elegant boat, especially the interior. I hope the air con was good? Will you be covering a lesser cabin too?

I just Love your commentary funny and not like the constant waffle the yanks do and video editing excellent I'm a Brit too and this ship is simply awesome massive and beautiful good job

Not sure I would like the open balcony. My experience in hotels that have this set up is that there is no privacy, you can't just leave your windows and curtains open to enjoy the view, and they can be noisy as people talk as they walk by, or stop in front of your cabin to chat and admire the view.

This makes me long with nostalgia for an America I never knew. Not every aspect of it, of course but for a time when beauty and morals were worth something and we weren’t drowned in the dystopian reality of our times.

This was very respectfully built to honor the steam river boat era.

Beautiful narration 👌🏻💫👏🏻

2024,I just heard my Ohio River hometown , is trying to get her to moor there I would very much like to see that happen!

Lovely view

The open balconies are very southern/ south of the Mason-Dixon line those deep southern porches/veranda’s were necessary before air-conditioning to have a breeze and shade. They were also used in conjunction with the interior hallways (the outer hallway/veranda would have been used by servants, leaving the interior hallways to be used by the family.

To add: Ch 32 on every television has a documentary of how the Queen was built on constant loop

After nearly 2 years it's likely someone already posted this answer but I got tired of looking through all the comments, so I'll just weigh in. Huckleberry Finn was the first manuscript submitted to the printer in typewritten form.

Beautiful

I was blessed to work on the American Queen for 2 years in the mid-90's, and it looks almost exactly the same, one of the best experiences of my life!

It's amazing. I'm being picky, but felt the plastic light cover/wall outlets break the immersion. Small detail, but for some reason it stood out for me. I would replace with wood/faux-wood if I owned this $80m dollar steam boat.

And, American Cruise Lines owns this beauty.

Love this boat. I’m looking up a tour for the near future. Any advice? I want THIS boat!

Don’t mind the veranda or mainmain cabin door coming out onto deck. That’s how it was traditionally done so it’s cool.

Pure Class

I was the Sr. Riverlorian (Historian) for the Queen. Just retired last year. She will always be my home. Feel free to ask me any questions you may have about her

Was wondering if there is an elevator? A lot of people can't do all those stairs...

Nice video, I saw her but she was closed due to COVID when I saw her.

Not sure what Huckleberry Finn was the first at, but it was the first book to make me laugh out loud hysterically in a room all by myself within the first couple pages.

Love Mark Twain pen name story

👍👏👏👏

I hope she doesn't end up like the Goldenrod Showboat in St Louis. Gutted and abandoned.

Now I am curious about the ports? Do you land at have excursions every night? That would be worth it... having spent 5 days at sea on the Carnival Destiny. Ugh.

I certainly doubt Churchill wanted to preserve the British Empire only because it had the unintended consequence of creating most of the world's best travel writers, but he should have. Much better reason for it than to save the Queen the discomfort of learning she no longer was weighed with "the white man's burden", wouldn't you say? Thank you both for your exceptionally informative and entertaining "travel writings"! If I may, Twain was born and raised in Hannible, Missouri. A small riverboat town North of Saint Louis and not far from my own hometown. Although you are within rights to describe it as you wish, Missouri is most often considered to have been a "Border State" between the North and South. To say Twain was raised in the South is uncommon, and likely to conflict with Twain's own opinion, could he be bothered nowadays to give one on such a trivial topic. Most likely, he's too busy being dead to care, though, but with Twain you can't be too sure, right? He did enjoy picking his words carefully, however. Have you visited Hannible? Back in the day, the historic plaques were a mystery for cryptologists and code-breakers. Tourists and locals both would laugh for hours joking about what they meant, and no one would claim credit to have written and erected them. They read like they were designed by a committee. Irony one of America's easiest to read writers....

Looks like a major snooze fest. Going back in time is fun for a day at a Pioneer Village theme park but a whole week would be soul crushing. I’m guessing it’s mostly 60+ OAPs.

Was Huck Finn the first book made into a movie or stage show?

Just looking at this video, I can strongly feel the Mark Twain vibe. Picturing me and Tom Sawyer drunkenly hitting on Becky Thatcher in the Engine Room Bar.

Excellent video! We were so close to booking but decided, at this moment in time, we didn't want to pay £7,000 each for a 7 night cruise without flights and I didn't want to stay in a broom cupboard.🤣🤣🤣 I'd certainly like to try it one day for the river boat experience and the history but we're going to explore the area with a fly drive first. Looking forward to seeing videos of your docks.

I'd love to cruise abord this boat.

The interior looks amazing, but the carpets made it look like an old casino in Vegas. Wish they would just have raw wood floors or a clearcoat over those. I would probably be bored fast on a river cruise like this, but I would be lying if I said I would not be thrilled to try it for 24 hrs!

This cruise line recently shut down. I wonder what will happen to the ship.

except in China there are lots of river cruise boats on Yangtze River larger than this one. The largest one is Golden Yangtze which is 12000 tons almost four times larger than this one

The largest Yangtze 3 is about 17000 tons

Hi Richard she looks interesting and appealing what sort of prices are we talking about for a week? Obviously not for an owner's suite

This isn't a boat, it's a palace!

This must have been a difficult assignment. Even though you did your usual excellent job, the boat looks very tired. The color scheme is very dreary. The Mark Twain Suite looks comfortable. I wish the entire riverboat were more luxurious, that the passenger count were lower.

Memphis is considered "Mid-South'

When was it built?!

Is it mostly older people that go on these cruises ?

6:50 I think it's funny that they have that little character named "Fred".....I wonder if that is a joke from a Navy vet? I was in the USN, and F.R.E.D. stands for "f***ing retarded electronic device" lmao 🙂

Caliope: kah-LIE-o-pee

I was going to concur but u are absolutely right!! The American slaves ships were largest in history!! Wonderful American history!! 😊

3707 tons? Symphony of the Seas - 237,000+ tons? No waterslide?

Mark Twain or Manhattan Suite?

She’s one of the last good boats out there.

You clearly haven’t been to the one in Elgin, IL

i don't see The Ladies Parlor or the men's Lounge.

only 3000 tons? not 13000 tons?

Note: Fresh water pool. Ocean cruise ships pump salt water into their pools.... Disgusting!

Just thought you might be interested that I got paid 40p from Google Pay for answering questions about this video.

Banned?

she had issues

I want bé on bord AQ 😀😍😍

Your video title is very misleading. The American queen has not been scrapped. I’m a travel agent and American cruise lines now owns her.

It's not a cali opie it's a kah lie a pea if you're going to talk about American things at least learn the American pronunciation. I like the open balcony but the chairs look really uncomfortable. Where are the chaise lounges? The chairs look absolutely torturous with their sharp angles and tight arms. No wonder the balcony was empty. Then there's the hot thick sticky air which can't be very comfortable.

I wish i was rich and living these days

I’m working this Monday on ship mixed reviews from employees although I’m going to think positive can’t wait 🥹