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| - First let me disclose that I am a Titanic nerd. I have been obsessed with the sinking of this ship since I was a little girl....long before the story of Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt-Bukater. So I love everything about the Titanic exhibit. I appreciate the history, thinking of the people that endured this great historic tragedy, and seeing the artifacts that live to tell a story so many years later.
With that said, I LOVED this exhibit so much and I actually went on 2 separate occasions! I even saw this exhibit in Connecticut years ago before it ended up at the Luxor. But this one in Vegas but was much more amped up than the one in Norwalk, CT. I guess I should have expected that b/c Vegas does everything bigger and better. But I was impressed.
As soon as you walk into the exhibit it feels as if you are on the boat or on the set of the movie! You walk through the "steerage" area and get to see what a room looked like to the 3rd class passengers complete with what it sounded like down there. Then you see what the first class rooms looked like. There are also several artifacts that have been sitting on the ocean floor since the ships sinking. It's amazing how some of these things were preserved so well considering they were immersed in salt water for all these years. My favorite part of this exhibit is how they rebuilt the grand staircase. It's truly spectacular especially if you are as much into Titanic as I am. Not just the boat but the Leo/Kate movie too. I warned you, I was a Titanic nerd. I also enjoyed walking on "the deck" on what was to be the night of the sinking. The water is calm, there's a chill in the air, and the stars fill up the night sky. Then you go to the next room and you see an iceberg. You can touch it too - the one in CT had some cold water and a block of ice so you could feel how cold the water was that night but in Vegas, it was much more impressive.
As you are nearing the end of the exhibit, you walk to one of the last rooms and BAM! The biggest piece of wreckage ever recovered - which happens to actually be a very small piece of the side of the ship but its tremendous. You can even see the thickness of the cracked porthole window. Next to this enormous thing there is a picture of the boat showing the location of this particular piece which give you an idea of how massive in size this ship was.
AsI studied this vast piece of wreckage, I stood in awe wondering number 1: how the heck they retrieved it from the water and number 2: how they transported it from the North Atlantic to the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas. It's insane what they had to do to get this piece and to preserve it too. Simply amazing.
I HIGHLY recommend this exhibit and getting the headset b/c it gives you a much better experience and history. If you check in on Yelp, you still may be able to get a free one! Enjoy!!
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