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

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FettleOfKish · 26/04/2023 21:05

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.

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FettleOfKish · 26/04/2023 21:57

PinkLemonadee · 26/04/2023 21:51

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.

Then why not an RMS Olympic or RMS Mauretania immersive dining experience?

Why choose the boat intrinsically linked to 1000s of tragic deaths?

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Mostar · 26/04/2023 21:59

PinkLemonadee · 26/04/2023 21:51

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.

"Don't think of an elephant..."

Coffeeandbourbons · 26/04/2023 22:00

YANBU how tasteless

Spottycarousel · 26/04/2023 22:05

That's just horrible and wrong. So many people died utterly terrifying deaths by drowning.

EvenHeathens · 26/04/2023 22:12

None of you are true Titanoraks then....

ziggiestardust · 26/04/2023 22:25

'A lavish lunch in the last hours of Chernobyl' made me snort

I agree OP, it seems spectacularly shitty. Also; there's a MYRIAD of other historical events to take their pick from; the first meal the astronauts had after they landed on the moon, or Obama's first inauguration meal, or a course style menu based on historic periods and going forward in time with each course. I'm sure people could come up with something better (never been much of a party planner myself!) but this just feels a bit grotesque.

VestaTilley · 26/04/2023 22:26

YANBU- absolutely morbid.

CardinalCopia · 26/04/2023 22:34

I went to the exhibition in vegas. We were given the boarding cards of real people at the start and told to scan them at the end to see if we survived.
As we moved through the exhibit it became a lot more sobering, seeing personal items brought up from the wreck etc. I hadn’t really known much about the exhibition before going on so when I turned a corner and came face to face with a huge piece of the ship (27’ and 20 tonnes to be exact) it really choked me and I hadn’t expected that reaction. The whole thing was both deeply fascinating and desperately sad.

As it turned out, DH and I had been first class passengers from our boarding cards. We had survived. Again, something which unsettled me for the rest of the day.

Florenz · 26/04/2023 22:41

Has there ever been a Hindenberg dining experience?

NaNaNaNaNaNaBaNaNa · 26/04/2023 22:42

FettleOfKish · 26/04/2023 21:57

Then why not an RMS Olympic or RMS Mauretania immersive dining experience?

Why choose the boat intrinsically linked to 1000s of tragic deaths?

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Titanic was far more luxurious than Olympic or Mauritania. It was unmatched for opulence and was very famous in its time well before the disaster. Plus it's a far more well-known name than either of the others.

I don't see anything wrong with it as a dining experience. If it involves the sinking for entertainment rather than education then that would be a bit dodgy IMO.

FotheringtonThomasMinor · 26/04/2023 22:45

PinkLemonadee · 26/04/2023 21:51

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.

Apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

LauraNicolaides · 26/04/2023 22:49

FettleOfKish · 26/04/2023 21:05

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.

Just don't go to it.

CardinalCopia · 26/04/2023 22:49

You can kind of dine in the RMS Olympic restaurant as the interior was salvaged when the ship was decommissioned and installed in The White Swan Hotel in Alnwick, Northumberland.

Marsyas · 26/04/2023 22:50

PinkLemonadee · 26/04/2023 21:51

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.

I initially thought that but it seems like there is a “heartfelt and poignant” drama happening around the diners, which seems to imply the experience does draw on the sinking not just the luxury.

MyMachineAndMe · 26/04/2023 22:51

I must be a cold-hearted bitch then because it sounds an interesting way to learn more about our social history.

Candleabra · 26/04/2023 22:54

YANBU. There’s a very weird glamourised nostalgia about Titanic. I can’t think of any other tragedy that is treated like this.

DyslexicPoster · 26/04/2023 23:00

If it was recreating the meal, the period and clothes etc then it sounds fun. But if its the disaster part too, not so much. I'd like to be in the Agatha Christie film settings, without the murder of course. Can see myself on the Nile in my flapper dress sipping gin with my perfect hair and cute shoes right now. Makes a change from my six year old Asda jeans and Lidl

MyEyesAreBleeding · 26/04/2023 23:03

Guineapigwoes · 26/04/2023 21:10

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?

Oh no really? I've refused to go thus far. Just can't reconcile with it at all

SidewaysOtter · 26/04/2023 23:06

Florenz · 26/04/2023 22:41

Has there ever been a Hindenberg dining experience?

All the food served flambé?

BadNomad · 26/04/2023 23:39

It isn't more grim than anything else. We have countless movies and exhibitions about wars. You can gawp at graves. You can visit castles where executions are stages. You walk through tunnels with walls of skulls and bones. You can go on tours of where serial killers murdered their victims. We're a Christian nation who celebrates the birth and brutal death of a man. Some of you may even eat his flesh and drink his blood on Sundays. So I don't see how dinner on the titanic is any more horrible.

Loria · 26/04/2023 23:43

Lol @ "immersive".

It's false advertising unless they sink the boat midway through.

Phoebo · 26/04/2023 23:43

BadNomad · 26/04/2023 23:39

It isn't more grim than anything else. We have countless movies and exhibitions about wars. You can gawp at graves. You can visit castles where executions are stages. You walk through tunnels with walls of skulls and bones. You can go on tours of where serial killers murdered their victims. We're a Christian nation who celebrates the birth and brutal death of a man. Some of you may even eat his flesh and drink his blood on Sundays. So I don't see how dinner on the titanic is any more horrible.

This is a really good point.

mumda · 27/04/2023 00:06

Does everyone get to pick who they get into a lifeboat with or does the band get drowned?

Loria · 27/04/2023 00:18

... and do the ladies get their norks out and ask their husbands to draw them like French girls?