To think a 'Titanic Dining Experience' is grim AF?

[FettleOfKish]

Being advertised locally on Facebook.

The Queen of the Ocean is a totally immersive theatre and dining experience based on the RMS Titanic. Serving up a 4 course recreation of the final meal on board, we take you back to a world of ocean class liners, opulence and extravagance as a heartfelt and poignant story is played out around your table

AIBU to think that this is a bit much, staging an 'immersive dining experience' based on an event in which 1000s of people died awfully shortly afterwards?

What next for the production company? A lavish Lunch in the last hours of Chernobyl? The real Pie & Peas Hillsborough experience? Maybe a final breakfast at the top of the World Trade Centre?

I know there has been films and documentaries and a tourist industry all based around Titanic but this just struck me as even more distasteful, turning it into a fun and frivolous night out.

Omg yanbu 😱

I concur!
I was chatting to someone about this, I don't think it's the fact that it's over 100 years since it happened as you wouldnt have a WW1 trenches lunch or an Amelia Dyer supper.
I also don't like the idea of the musical.

Yanbu don’t go to the titanic museum in Belfast, you go straight from the sad stories of the victims up the gift shop - titanic jam anyone?

A lavish Lunch in the last hours of Chernobyl?

Not lunch, but the same company do a Chernobyl experience.

https://histoireproductions.com/chernobyl/

Some events in history are glamourised. Titanic is one of them. There's no logic to it.

They could have a dining experience based on any one of the successful cruise liners...

Immersive theatre. Eurgh.

That sounds awful, I wonder if people forget sometimes it was a real tragedy and not just a film. I did see this slide type thing (no idea what experience it was from), where it was trying to hold on to the top the way they would have done after the ship split. I think these type of things de-sensitive people.
I think remembering Titanic is good, but it should be done tactfully.

It is and YANBU. But there are also people who appreciate the history, the era, the actual building of the ship etc. My cousin is a preschool teachers are some kids are obsessed with the Titanic. It's more than just the deaths is what I'm saying, but I understand what you mean. I feel worse with people looking at mummies in a Museum or the preserved people at Pompeii and taking pictures of things like that.

"immersive" bad choice of words given being "immersed" in water is what causes drowning.

Someone has not thought this out - this is disturbing

You should submit your other ideas to them though - if they're prepared to be this distasteful they will probably embrace them.

YADNBU

I think it sounds quite fun. I mean, people do murder mystery weekends, is that also bad taste?

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DH and I (misguidedly) went to the Jack the Ripper museum in London*

Jack the Ripper wine glasses anyone? Corkscrew? A novelty pen? Small plastic packets of letters and police notes? (helpfully marked 'reproduction' in case anyone was in doubt that they were buying the real thing).

*It's not even nearly a museum. It's some wax-works and sign boards in a building, designed to squeeze cash out of American 'Ripperologists' visiting London as you'd learn absolutely nothing if you didn't already know the whole story.

'Immersive'?

FFS.

I wouldn't be surprised if every course involves iceberg lettuce.

Seriously tasteless. In all aspects.

They also do a “save JFK” escape room themed dinner thing

I stayed in the titanic Hotel in Liverpool

I think we are supposed to close our eyes and pretend the ship sinking people drowning thing didn't happen afterwards

@SquareRootOfAllEvil OH. MY. GOD. 😱

@MumUndone Murder Mystery weekends sure. Like Cluedo but real life. If someone invited me one based on Ted Bundy or Fred West I'd be a sceptical though.

Loving the lettuce

I am obsessed with titanic, she captured my imagination as a child (pre film) and I’ve collected so many books over the years and read so much.

I think this is horrible! So tasteless. At one of the traveling exhibitions they offered to take my photo posing on a mock-up of the gangway and they were taken aback when I said I found that a really disrespectful thing to do!

I just went onto Tik Tok, and what should pop up 😳?! There are no words.

Only interested if there is a vintage car I can get boffed in and a sofa I can recline on nude. Oh and an after party with Irish dancing and fiddles! I want the full package!

Does it end with a game of "Door or No Door" and you have to cling onto an oik from steerage until he freezes?

I mean a meal, the theme, is a terrible idea. How grim.

It's not my idea of fun or good taste either.
I once went to the Madame Tousauds Torture Chambers in York, all "entertainingly" based on actual acts of justice committed on men, women, and children. The witch trial was a particular joy 😒. I hated every second.

I know its bad but ive considered going to this... 🙈

Also, I thought Titanic Belfast was well done as it was about the building of Titanic more than the disaster... Although i never look in gift shops at the end. They're always a money grab.

Instead of Titanic they could just have had the big fucking ocean liner royal yacht Britannia. Dine like a seafaring monarch and enjoy the finest roast swan, quail fillets, scotch eggs, etc. Sorted.

I'm not sure where this is but someone I know went to some Titanic exhibition and they got given a card with their identity on which would have been one of the passengers and wether first or lower class. I can't remember much about it though as thought it was awful at the time but also an educational way to understand how the people were treated depending on status.

I think you need to separate the Titanic as a luxury liner and the titanic sinking tragedy. There's nothing distasteful about recreating anything from the first one.