{"id":106153,"date":"2025-12-23T09:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/106153\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T09:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:24:09","slug":"visit-the-queen-mary-for-free-until-sunday-dec-21-but-theres-a-catch-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/106153\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit the Queen Mary for free until Sunday, Dec. 21 \u2014 but there\u2019s a catch \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The historic Queen Mary ocean liner, now a hotel and restaurant in Long Beach, is offering free admission until Sunday, Dec. 21. That\u2019s a savings of $43.46 off regular general admission.<\/p>\n<p>To take advantage of this offer, you must bring a new, unwrapped toy with you, to donate to \u201cQueen Mary Cares.\u201d The toys are earmarked for needy children in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Parking costs $20 and is not included in the freebie. But, while you\u2019re there, you might want to check out the special holiday offerings, including the pop-up \u201cPeppermint Lounge,\u201d make a gingerbread house or take a photo with Santa (Both at extra cost.) Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queenmary.com\/qmholidays.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">queenmary.com\/qmholidays.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The historic Queen Mary ocean liner, now a hotel and restaurant in Long Beach, is offering free admission&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,12740,2646,131,133,132,137,55422,420,136,2422],"class_list":["post-106153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-free-and-cheap","tag-holidays","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-queen-mary","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}