Thirty miles to reach Long Beach from Pasadena in slow moving heavy traffic both ways. We don’t like the LA traffic and all the lanes and fly overs it’s very stressful.

It took both of us deciphering the sat nav to find the berth of the ship once we were near.

But success. we parked and bought the tickets$45 each 🥺

We went on board and had a small one hour history tour of the first class areas. It is very art deco from the 1930s era. Her maiden voyage was may 1936. She has an interesting history being a troop ship in WW2

She arrived at long beach december 1967 to be made into a floating hotel , convention centre and tourist attraction.

After our tour we had lunch in the ships restaurant overlooking the harbour.

We watched a fire ship doing tests and got some fab photos

You can stay as long as you like exploring most of the ship except the hotel guests area.

It was in the 70*s and we enjoyed the sun decks

I hope you can get a good idea of what we experienced. We loved it.

We did not love the journey back to our hotel but that’s another story. But 2 hours to drive 30 miles in manic traffic should explain.., too stressful!

We had a lovely day on the ship though and good memories made.