At this New Year’s Eve celebration, walk the Titanic’s grand staircase like Jack and Rose
Remember that magnificent staircase in “Titanic” where Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) greeted Rose (Kate Winslet) in the 1997 blockbuster movie about the doomed liner and lovers?
Guests at the New Year’s Eve celebration at the Titanic Belfast in Northern Ireland can re-create that magic moment on a replica staircase before ringing in 2017.
Revelers can sip cocktails, dine from replica White Star Line crockery, and dance the night away.
Tickets to the event cost about $50. A live band and DJ entertainment also are on tap. Cocktail attire is expected.
The Northern Ireland museum is centered on the British luxury liner that sank on its maiden voyage in 1912 on its route from Southampton, England, to New York City.
The museum, in the Harland & Wolff shipyard where the liner was built, tells Titanic’s story from design to demise.
The Titanic sailed from Southampton, England, on April. 10, 1912. It carried numerous prominent businessmen and their families on what was called the “Millionaire’s Special.”
After a stop in Cherbourg, France, it sailed from Cobh, Ireland, on April 11, bound for New York City.
Just before midnight on April 14, about 460 nautical miles from Newfoundland, Canada, the ship struck an iceberg.
The ship carried enough lifeboats for about 1,200 people but had about 2,200 aboard, 900 of them crew members. More than 1,500 people died in the disaster.
The museum recently won the award for world’s leading tourist attraction at the World Travel Awards in the Maldives. It bested such tourism favorites as the Las Vegas Strip and Peru’s Machu Picchu.
More than 3 million people have visited the attraction since it opened in 2012. It includes a ride that carries visitors around a re-creation of the sights and sounds of the busy shipyard. Interactive galleries show the fitting-out of the luxury liner and re-create its launch, as well as the circumstances and aftermath of the disaster, and the rediscovery of the wreck.
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