Titanic 2
Also Unsinkable
Building a ship like the Titanic is a clever plan; too clever to fail twice…
I suspect he was making a wisecrack of sorts, that he wouldn’t care to travel on a sail-powered Titanic. I think everyone knows that ‘sailing’ does not imply water travel stricly by sail.
I might be interested if it was used as a cruise ship. But I have no interest in taking a ship just to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
The idea seems neat in theory but pretty dull in practice. If I’m going to make an effort to travel the Atlantic in a replica of the Titanic I’d want to do it first class. Why would anybody pay money to travel in steerage in 1900’s conditions when the same amount of money (I presume) would put you in a much nicer room on a modern cruise ship? When I look at the blue prints for the Titanic http://www.abratis.de/sources/pictures/blue.html it appears that only the first class suites have working bathrooms in the rooms - the rest appear to share common lavatories in the middle of each deck. No thank you! Not to mention that in pictures I’ve seen of the titanic anything that’s not related to sleeping or eating looks extremely dated now. Look at pictures of the swimming pool, the first class gymnasium, and the turkish bath. None look remotely inviting to my modern eyes.
That said - I’d probably pay money to stay in a hotel that replicated the Titanic. If the hotel duplicated the dining rooms, master stair case, smoking rooms, lounge area, and some of the nicer first class cabins along with the meals that were served then I would be very interested in spending one or two nights there. But that’d be the extent of it.
And yet people fly on budget airlines. I’d travel steerage if it was a really cheap way to get to the destination.
Finding the cheapest way to travel point A to point B is fine if the purpose of the trip is just to get you to your destination. But presumably if you are sailing on a replica of the Titanic it’s because you want to have the experience of sailing on the Titanic. The journey itself becomes the reason for the trip. I would presume those passengers would want an experience a little less utilitarian than what steerage historically offered. I accept that Third Class would be a part of the experience for some, but it seems this would be more likely to be a once in a lifetime type of trip for people interested enough to take it so most of them would probably want something a little nicer.
Actually not even all of the First Class staterooms had en suite baths. And 20 yrs previously Titanic’s 2nd Class accommodation’s would’ve been considered 1st Class accommodations and the 3rd Class equivalent to 2nd Class. People like to badmouth conditions in “steerage”, but in the Edwardian era it really was basically a luxury vacation for it’s occupants (granted being locked below deck so the 1st & 2nd Classes got first dibs on the lifeboats sucked). That being said I’d pick 1st Class if I were to sail on the Titanic II, though I would’ve be adverse to cycling tru all 3 classes over the course of a week’s voyage.
I think they should make it a near exact replica - but with some exceptions, and everything more hygienic. No need for kitchens and lavatories to be 1914 standard instead of 2014.
And the crew deck must have GPS, satellite communications, radar, computers, everything modern, of course.
I’d be up for that and I can’t even draw. 
But seriously, as a bit of a Titanic buff, I’ve studied the deck plans to the point that I almost have the layout committed to memory. I would love to explore such a replica but I’m curious as to how accurate a reproduction would be allowed given current technology and safety standards.
Now that as a vacation seriously appeals to me! It would be fairly easy to make the public areas match up to the Titanic, and have an overall T shape to the hotel, the crossbar of the T being a pair of wings with the different classes of stateroom, and the vertical leg being boat shaped and holding the public areas with the kitchens and service areas below.
Be a fuckload cheaper to build, and staff as it doesn’t have to meet the same sort of requirements of a cruise ship.
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Oh! I took it as being one of those annoying super pedantic things we suffer from so often here on the SDMB. “No, the flag was not flying at half mast, it was flying at half staff.” Yeah, right, sure, true, and…God, I wish they’d just drop it.
If it wasn’t one of those, then I erred in taking it that way. (My response was, I hope, clearly a wisecrack.)
That said…it would be kind of cool to rig up sails to a modern luxury liner, to see what kind of performance we could get!
Do I need to wear clothing with mirrored writing on it when I’m on one side of the ship? Or was that just for the film?
Yes, I imagine the new titanic would be much safer and better and will probably be upgraded.
I sailed on the replica of the Brig Niagara near Canada and the British didn’t shoot the crap out of me ------ so I figure my luck will hold for a Titanic.
None of them 1912 cruise ships for me - antiquated decor, having to dress up for dinner, norovirus everywhere…
Sign me up for an Atlantic crossing in style - on a replica Andrea Doria.
I’ve been hearing about someone building one of these ever since the movie came out. It’ll never happen. There’s no point. The Titanic was NOT a cruise liner. Not even close. It was a trans-Atlantic bus. A means to an end, to cross the ocean, not to have a vacation. Even for the first class passengers there was little to do (and nothing that would be considered even mildly entertaining today). It would be like flying from Atlanta to Houston in a DC-3. Cramped, uncomfortable, noisy, and above all else twice as boring (and four times longer) as flying in a modern airliner.
A modern cruise liner is not about getting from point A to point B. It’s about leaving point A, drinking, gambling, partying, scoring, noticing the view once & a while, then eventually coming back to point A. It’s not a bus, it’s a floating hotel/casino/amusement park…