In 2012, tourists will be offered to go on a cruise, repeating the famous voyage of the Titanic, with the only difference being that the travel company that organizes the trip, hopes to bring it to a successful end.
On April 8, 2012, as 100 years ago, a huge ocean liner will depart on a journey to America from Southampton, and by April 15 will arrive to the place of the North Atlantic, where the Titanic had sank.
Organizers of the “titanic tour” promise tourists almost full compliance of the atmosphere prevailing on board with the one that was on the famous ship. Lunch menu will be exactly restored and it will be served under the music of the past millennium. Dances are also going to be old-fashioned. Furthermore, when the cruiser arrives to the place of the tragedy, a memorial service will take place on board.
After that, the ship will travel to Halifax, and travelers can visit the three cemeteries, where the passengers and crew of the Titanic were buried. And then the cruise liner will bring tourists to New York.
The 12-day trip will cost tourists not less than 4400 dollars. However, as reported by the representatives of Miles Morgan Travel, organizers of the tour, all cheap accommodation and inside cabin of lower classes have already been sold. The tourists are not deterred even by the fact that most of the passengers set out on the Titanic in similar cabins died.
The memory Cruise of the Titanic will be held on board of the Balmoral cruise ship, owned by Olsen Cruise Lines. The ship can accommodate 1,350 visitors in 710 cabins, and its crew of 510 people. The original Titanic sank after it collided with an iceberg in 1912, somewhere between 23.40 pm on April 14 and 02.20 am on April 15. 1,517 of the 2,223 people on board died.
Interestingly, the company Fred Olsen, who owns the ship Balmoral, is a subsidiary of the company on whose shipyards the Titanic was built. Olsen Cruise Lines company, which is using the ship, is based in the UK. There are so many coincidences that if icebergs will appear on the horizon on April 14, tourists should think about keeping life-jackets on hand.
