Stars flock to Pireus and QM2 for Olympic experience

Where: Pireus, Greece

8/12/2004 at 9:58 AM
Tags: Celebrity Scoop

Looks like dropping anchor near the port city of Pireus is the hip way to take in the Olymic games in Athens (August 13-29), or at least the stars way of doing so.

The biggest, baddest cruise ship in the world, the Queen Mary 2 (QM2) arrived at the port of Piraeus yesterday, and will house many celebrities, dignitaries, and well to do folks.  1,800 visitors will stay on the QM2 in the next two weeks, making it by far the largest of these "floating hotels" in Greece.  Check out the innards on their website.  Impressive.

Tony Blair was rumored to be staying on QM2, but Downing Street shot that rumor down.

What we do know is the following big names will be staying in style on one floating hotel or another off of Pireus:

Julia Roberts, Jack Nicholson and George Clooney, Russian and French presidents, Vladimir Putin and Jacques Chirac, and hundreds of other big names, are amongst the maritime hotel go'ers.

Sounds like the waters off Pireus is the place to be in Greece.