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Ice in your drink on the Titanic

20th September 202520th September 2025 funtime65

Well, what else would you do than put ice in your drink on the Titanic?

Which is not us delving the depths but our merch mates l selling Titanic-shaped ice for your glass.

Lest it be forgotten, of course, Titanic was, first and foremost a pleasure cruise, where passengers wined and dine in fine style.

And Titanic Belfast, which tells and retells the story of the world’s most famous cruise liner every day, is showcasing the foods and beverages on board.

With Flavours of Titanic: A Journey Through Taste, Seasoned with Stories.

And a calendar of festivities in Belfast every weekend from October 4-November 2.

Flavours of Titanic

The cruise crew: Titanic Belfast

It features the best fare from Belfast, the city where the great ship was built from the early 20th century.

From free talks and tastings to family trails and themed food specials, Flavours of Titanic will link food culture to the ship’s story.

Local suppliers stepping up include Irish Black Butter, Maine Soft Drinks and Burren Balsamics.

Every week will have a different theme including First Class Flavours, Clangers and Craft and Port to Plate.

Wine and dine

Bespoke dishes will also be available to enjoy in The Pantry and Galley cafe, as well as retail exclusives in the Titanic Store.

While Titanicphiles will welcome the return of Titanic by the Glass on Saturday, October 11 and Friday, October 17.

With cocktails crafted by The Spirit Circle.

Titanic by the Glass will take guests on a guided immersive journey through part of the Titanic Experience.

Where they will hear about stories of Belfast, its people, its past and its drinks.

All served with four accompanying alcoholic or non-alcoholic cocktails.

Crews on the cruise

Crew Talks will take place across the weekends.

Exploring Titanic’s food stories from provisioning and cargo to dining across the ship’s classes.

And there will also be a dedicated pop-up exhibition highlighting the ship’s menus, cargo and culinary contrasts.

Offering visitors to Northern Ireland a fresh perspective on Titanic’s history through the lens of food.

Families can take part in a specially designed trail over the half-term break from October 25-31.

Leading younger visitors through food-themed touchpoints across the experience in a fun, engaging way.

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The epic Titanic in Belfast

9th September 20249th September 2024 funtime65

It must be an Irish thing, a word that means the opposite of itself, like grand and tragic, the unique, epic Titanic in Belfast.

The workmen in the yellow-vis jackets are clanking on the gantries on the Queens Dock the day I visit.

Close your eyes and for all intents and purposes you could be back in the Belfast of 1911, only it was a bit noisier then.

And these workers are putting up offices.

Belfast’s Titanic story was, in truth, not inside but here on the docks.

Yard that built the Titanic

No passenger ever got on the Titanic in Belfast (they maybe knew better).

With Southampton the departure point for New York.

But 100,000, half the population of the city today, attended to see the ship slip into the water on its completion in 1911.

And that number and more have been coming to the Titanic Quarter, which includes a hotel, a film studios and distillery.

Since 2012 when it opened on the centenary of the pride of the White Star sinking off Canada with the loss of 1,517 lives.

Get into Titanic character

Time, cash, and a far more important appointment with an old pal precludes me.

From taking the hour and a half tour.

Which, to be fair, is award-winning, with visitors (£25pp online) invited.

To adopt the character of real-life passengers on board.

Fun for all the family then, as long as that family is not the Sunaks.

And who can forget his ill-timed visit during the election.

When his keystone policy was ‘to stop the boats’?

Hello and Welcome

The sheer scale of the Titanic is perhaps best mapped out.

By the metal posts that map out its size all the distance of the quay.

While the display boards and indexes explain who went where and who survived… First Class mainly.

And the history of Belfast as a shipbuilding and maritime hub and latter-day Game of Thrones centre.

The H and W of the yellow Harland and Woolf cranes, locally named Samson and Goliath, are an iconic reminder.

Of that yard’s place in the Belfast story.

Celebrated too by air pilots as passengers fly into Belfast.

And they announce that the H and W means Hello and Welcome.

The sight too of a Stena ship tells us that as absorbing as the epic Titanic in Belfast is this is an operational dock.

And that Michael, who helps promote my go-to ferry from Ireland to Scotland, is waiting for me in the Titanic Hotel bar.

Although at £259 per night my largesse only stretched to coffees!!!

MEET YOU ON THE SEAS

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Titanic sails again

7th February 20237th February 2023 funtime65

More than 111 years on from when it sunk the world’s most famous cruise ship is still giving up its secrets… and we are excited to announce that Titanic sails again.

Titanic Belfast is reopening its doors on March 4 with four new themed galleries.

The reimagined Titanic Experience introduces The Pursuit of Dreams as a new theme.

And it will use immersive technology combined with the authentic Titanic Story.

Ship of Dreams

In its refreshed spaces called Never Again; Ballard’s Quest; The Ship of Dreams and The Lasting Legacy.

One of the centrepieces of the new experience will be an illuminated 7.6m long scale model of RMS Titanic suspended from the ceiling.

It will fully rotate, taking approximately 90 seconds to complete, promising to provide a true wow factor for visitors.

Guests will delve deeper into the lives and stories of the passengers who had dreams of starting a new life in America.

As we did in Dublin on a Titanic tour of Ireland during our 13 years in Ireland when we were each given a character on the ship.

She’s a Model

You’ll also hear about those who built the ship in Belfast and those who discovered her wreck.

The illuminated 7.6m long scale model of RMS Titanic replicates some of the main features of the iconic ship.

The model includes the lifeboats, propellers, engine, cranes, bridge, main staircase and chimneys.

And fitted with 300 metres of LED lights that are programmed to highlight different areas of the ship.

It took six months to build and will take a further three weeks to install and programme in Titanic Belfast.

Of course the once-in-a-lifetime Titanic trip was alas just that.

But this is the closest you can get.

Miniature wonders

And having checked out the world through the eyes of Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg then I’d always recommend seeing things from knee-height.

For further information as Titanic sails again. Or to book tickets for the new Titanic Experience from Saturday 4^th March visit titanicbelfastw.com