I took pics of my Mother with some of these characters yesterday, they loved it so much they were giving me advice on the angle and light for the best results. No shame for some of them. The atmosphere was good down there to be fair.

Don’t get me wrong,she looks the part,I’m just surprised there’s not more of other passengers. It wouldn’t be my cup of tea but it’s still a pretty cool experience

If I saw a dozen different people dressed up for the occasion that was about the size of it. I think they are saving themselves for the bit of any aul pray over the wreck. I get the feeling a few villages are missing some idiots this week. I was only going down to make mischief anyway, my titanic jokes went down quicker then the ship did :) and it was impossible to buy an iceberg lettuce in any of the shops!

It’s just you.

Guess not Alice!

I agree with David. Will there be a fly over in Lockerbie 100 years after the crash?

No I think the whole titanic industry that has grown up is a bit sick. It smacks of making money off others misery.

What next, a good ole barbeque in Dresden?

Totally distasteful, notice none of them in second and third class passenger costumes. A hundred million pounds of public money squandered on a Titanic style theme park in Belfast which requires 300,000 paying visitors a year for the remainder of the century just to cover costs. Apparently the admission fee doesn’t allow the plebs access to the reproduction staircase, reserved for VIP and corporate client viewing only. It’s a wonder they haven’t graded the tickets 1st, 2nd and 3rd class and refused the latter access above the basement! Titanic in name Titanic in nature.

I agree David… A bit much with some people making money out if it..

Actually Cobh and Belfast seems like comparing two equally tacky extremes. Whereas Belfast built a commercial monstrosity it appears Cobh’s commemorations amount to newspaper cuttings stuck in shop windows. Could neither of them have built a suitable visitor’s center/museum within a reasonable budget to commemorate the centenary?

I take it you have never been to Cobh, let alone yesterday.

In a hundred years sure they’ll be going on about the Costa Concordia….no?

I can only go upon what I’m seeing Adrian, Titanic Discount Sales etc. Perhaps you’d like to set the record straight, if I’m giving Cobh a bad rap. I know things are tight right now but if Fáilte Ireland could find €2.5m for a pink metal frame hanging from a crane in Cork City, could they not have built a modest Titanic memorial center for Cobh, that might bring a few more tourists into town after the centenary has passed?

Coming September 2101; dine with your loved ones in the opulence of exact replica of Windows on the World, then base jump from the roof. Proposal packages available for the romantic amongst you.

@Gay Pea McManus You could look up Cobh heritage centre and see for yourself. I think its quite modest and covers more about Irish maritime history then just the relationship between the town and the Titanic. The famine ships left Ireland from here carrying 2.5 million people and you will also learn about Annie Moore and her brothers who were the first people to be processed in Ellis Island who emigrated from Cobh. Its been there quite a while now too and is nowhere near the cost of the one in Belfast. It also brings plenty of tourism and employment to the area. Perhaps if you had put as much effort into finding out about Cobh as you had into your facts and figures related to the Belfast -Titanic connection you might have known this before labeling the place “tacky”. Which is a cheap shot considering you have never been to the place.