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Located successful the bosom of a regenerated shipyard country successful Belfast known arsenic the Titanic Quarter, the 4-star edifice of the aforesaid sanction helps bring to beingness a bygone age.
For the 119-room Titanic Hotel occupies the Victorian and Edwardian offices of Harland & Wolff, the institution that built the ill-fated cruise vessel successful 1911.
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It besides stands beside the landmark gathering lodging the monolithic Titanic Belfast museum, shaped to lucifer 4 ships’ bows and covered by thousands of metallic aluminum tiles, giving it the section nickname: the Iceberg.
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Half-hotel, half-museum, the Titanic Hotel - sister to the Titanic Hotel successful Liverpool operated by Harcourt Developments - has an archetypal postulation of implicit 500 artworks, artifacts and photographs transporting guests backmost to the 'Golden Age of Ocean Travel.’
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At the centre of the edifice are the twin, purpose-built, 19th-century drafting offices of Harland & Wolff, constructed to let maximum earthy airy and featuring three-story high, barrel-vaulted ceilings. Drawing bureau Nr. 1 houses the hotel’s ballroom portion Nr. 2 is The Harland, a spacious barroom and lounge, with deep, comfy bluish velvet sofas circling the room.
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Decorated with beauteous creation deco and creation nouveau question posters, it hosts a ample exemplary of the vessel and offers views retired to Titanic Belfast and the legendary slipways beside it. Cocktails adjacent see 1 named Ms. Millvina Dean, honoring the past remaining subsister of the maritime disaster.
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Above Drawing Office Nr. 2 is the Presentation Room, wherever prospective buyers were erstwhile shown lipid paintings of Harland & Wolff’s ships. It is present decorated with modern photographs. In the archetypal directors’ entranceway hallway is the curved etched-glass telephone room, wherever quality of the Titanic’s sinking was archetypal received. Nearby is the mahogany drafting array of erstwhile main naval architect, Thomas Andrews, who saved passengers by helping them onto lifeboats earlier dying successful the disaster.
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Naturally, each edifice bedrooms here person nautical personalities with creation deco furniture, ship’s lanterns, riveted panels and maritime-related artwork. In our room, floor-to-ceiling windows with an opening of astir 180 degrees overlooked the precise spot wherever the world’s largest vessel was built. Two leather armchairs and a tiny array window-side granted convenience for viewing these historical places below. Black and achromatic tiles connected the bath level were reminiscent of the ship’s flooring portion concern plan featured heavily, with assorted vessel parts adorning the chamber walls positive vintage robust bedside lamps, cabinets and a penning desk.
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Arriving precocious from overseas, we dined successful the Wolff Grill, seated successful a partially enclosed abstraction that erstwhile was the bureau of the antheral who designed the Titanic. As starters, we chose rilletes of duck with madeira, dates and brioche; seared scallops with chili; and ail and rum-glazed chickenhearted wings followed by slow-cooked pork with celeriac and charred leaks and 28-day aged rib eye. It was intolerable to disregard delectable desserts of sticky toffee pudding with salted caramel and banana ice-cream and baked cocoa mousse with orangish and candied hazelnuts.
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The Titanic Hotel is conveniently located for metropolis sight-seeing, conscionable a ten-to-twelve infinitesimal locomotion from Belfast metropolis halfway on Belfast's Maritime Mile - a waterfront acquisition comprising sporting and conferencing events astatine the Titanic Exhibition Centre; Vertigo, an indoor skydiving facility; a marina filled with yachts; absorbing sculptures including the ‘Big Fish’ and the 10,000-seat Odyssey (SSE Arena) amusement analyzable location to the ice-hockey team, the Belfast Giants, wherever creator performances of each kinds instrumentality place.
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The flagship Titanic Belfast itself has 9 interactive galleries, spectacular banqueting facilities successful its 750-seater Titanic Suite and an extended multi-media accumulation and acquisition abstraction including a cinema and real-life designs of immoderate of the cabins connected the ill-fitted ship.
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