If it will take me across the Pacific without squishing me into life-threatening shapes which take two weeks to decompress, I am willing to consider it. I’ve looked into traveling via cargo ships but haven’t quite figured the thing out.
I hate air travel.
If you get it figured out, let me know. I hate air travel as well.
I had heard talk that period clothing from 1912 will be available, presumably for passengers in first class. Which begs the question, what classes of travel will be available on Titanic II, and in what proportions? The original ship was designed to be a moneymaker in terms of the numbers of immigrants paying third class (steerage) passage to the New World. Even the exorbitant cost of first class passage was not profitable due to the relative few number of passengers in that class.
Everyone wants to be Jack in the first class dining saloon, but most passengers subsisted on humbler fare during their passage (wholesome & ample, but not haute cuisine). The economics of Titanic II profitability will be more interesting than the voyage itself.
Let’s remember the fate of Titanic’s sister, Olympic. She survived WWI, but the 1924 U.S. immigration restrictions & the onset of the Great Depression ultimately made the great ship unprofitable, and in 1935 she was sent to the scrapyard & broken up.
For those nostalgic for passage on a classic older ship, there are websites featuring original vessels dedicated to preserving the travel customs of an earlier time. Maybe Titanic II will become the flagship of that particular trade.
I personally would prefer that to the typical Carnival Cruise mass herding.