Cunard Line
Hotel Location Managed by Cunard Notes
London International Hotel London , England 1971-1977 Today London Marriott Hotel Kensington
Hotel Bristol , later Cunard Hotel Bristol London , England 1971 - 1984 Today Holiday Inn London Mayfair
Cunard Paradise Beach Hotel & Club Bridgetown , Barbados 1971 - 1992 Closed since 1992
Cobblers Cove Hotel Speightstown , Barbados 1971 - 1975
Montego Beach Hotel Montego Bay , Jamaica 1972 - 1975
Cunard Hotel La Toc & La Toc Suites Castries , St. Lucia 1972 - 1992 Today Sandals Regency La Toc
Cunard International Hotel London , England 1973 - 1984 Today Novotel London West Hotel
Cambridgeshire Hotel Cambridge , England 1974 - 1985 Today Hallmark Hotel Cambridge
The Ritz Hotel , London London , England 1976 - 1995 Now owned by the Ellerman Group
The Stafford London , England 1985 - 1995
The Watergate Hotel Washington , D.C 1986 - 1990
Dukes Hotel London , England 1988 - 1994
Hotel Atop the Bellevue Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 1989 - 1993 Today The Bellevue Hotel
Cunard 's Plaza Club New York City , New York 1989 - 1989 concierge floors of the Plaza Hotel
Cunard Hotels
After Trafalgar House bought the company in 1971 , Cunard operated the former company 's existing hotels as Cunard-Trafalgar Hotels . In the 1980s , the chain was restyled as Cunard Hotels & Resorts , before folding in 1995 .
Cunard Line is a British cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. Since 2011, Cunard and its three ships have been registered in Hamilton, Bermuda. In 1839, Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company together with Robert Napier, the famous Scottish steamship engine designer and builder, to operate the line's four pioneer paddle steamers on the Liverpool-Halifax-Boston route. For most of the next 30 years, Cunard held the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic voyage. However, in the 1870s Cunard fell behind its rivals, the White Star Line and the Inman Line. To meet this competition, in 1879 the firm was reorganised as the Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd, to raise capital. In 1902, White Star joined the American-owned International Mercantile Marine Co. In response, the British Government provided Cunard with substantial loans and a subsidy to build two superliners needed to retain Britain's competitive position. Mauretania held the Blue Riband from 1909 to 1929. The sinking of her running mate Lusitania in 1915 was one of the causes of the United States' entering the First World War. In 1919, Cunard relocated its British homeport from Liverpool to Southampton, to better cater for travellers from London. In the late 1920s, Cunard faced new competition when the Germans, Italians and French built large prestige liners.