In Long Beach for a business trip, and decided to stay on the QM for a night before traveling home. Rented a Deluxe King room and found it to be comfortable and spacious. Everything worked, but would not be consider it luxurious by modern luxury hotel standards. There are some modern updates like television, air conditioning, and electric outlets. The room had many of the original fixtures and fittings, including wood finishing, vanity, (non-working) original electric fan, and (non-working) taps for salt water in the bathtub. It's a testament to the build quality that an 85-year old vessel is still comfortable to stay aboard. I especially enjoyed opening and looking out the portholes in my room. I would stay again, but rent a more luxurious room such as a suite next time.
While onboard, I took the time to do several daytime tours: glory days, steam and steel, and haunted encounters. All were good tours, and hotel guests get a small discount on a package of all three tours. All the tours do a reasonable job of showcasing parts of the ship that one cannot normally visit. Glory days was good, but did not visit some of the more elegant ballrooms because they were in use for private functions. Haunted encounters was good, but we could not visit inside the 1st class pool which would have been nice since it is not open to explore individually. The tour did not go through the isolation ward, another spooky part of the ship, but that can be explored individually. The steam and steel tour of the engineering spaces was excellent and seemed the most complete of the tours in terms of covering its topic. Overally, an enjoyable set of tours of the QM that were well worth the visit.