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My husband and I got our tickets as a part of a package deal at the Luxor, this exhibit was definitely worth the time to go to! If you are into history or just into the Titanic story, this is a worthwhile exhibit to visit for sure. One of my favorite parts of this exhibit comes in the very beginning of the exhibit where they re-create the 3rd class passengers hallway. It looked like it was fresh out of the movie Titanic. The white, wooden hallway and the white pipes above really takes you there, along with the sound of the engines going. They also have lots of reading in that hallway on the walls about certain 3rd class passengers and their families. It was interesting to know that most of those passengers were really had enough money to be 2nd class passengers (who got the same amenities and dining privileges as the 1st class passengers, just not as nice rooms) chose to be 3rd class to save money for their arrival to America. So sad that none of them knew what was to come. Another very interesting stat that they tell is that the 1st class passengers paid what is now worth $103,00.00 for their rooms. That was about $1,300 back in their day. Amazing. They also tell you of the unsinkable Molly Brown, probably the most famous of the Titanic passengers, the crew and the young boy that was the reason why the Titanic hit the iceberg.
They also have an iceberg statue in one of the rooms of what the iceberg that the Titanic possibly hit that night. It is extremely heavy, hard and you can barely hold your hand on it for more than a few seconds. That is what the passengers had to contend with. You also get to see the famous part of the ship that they found and brought back up from the sea in 1994 which was taken to Seattle first and is now at the Luxor, and it will be there for 10 years, about 7 more years left of its stay there.
At the end of the exhibit you get to see if the person on your boarding pass survived the Titanic disaster or if they died. It was interesting to see that there were quite a bit of 2nd class and 3rd class survivors, because they do say that 1st class, women and children were the first to board the disaster boats. The gift shop is pretty cool also. They have a bunch of china and dinnerware according to class there. They have replica cups, bowls and plates that the 1st, 2nd and 3rd class passengers used while on their stay. We had to get some of the 3rd class dinnerware because we thought they were pretty cool. The other china was a little too sophisticated :) We also had to get the picture that they take of you before you start your journey into the exhibit. They photoshop you in front of the piece of the ship that they found years ago and they also photoshop you on the grand stair case, something I forgot to mention above, but it is absolutely breathtaking to look at! For $24 we got two large prints of us on the stair case and in front of the wreckage, we got a boarding pass wiht our picture in front of the stairs case on it and it was laminated, and we also got some wallets of us on the stair case too. We also got a piece of coal that was from the original ship. They only have a select few, so it was really wonderful that we were able to purchase a piece of history.
I would totally do this exhibit again and read every thing all over again. This is an amazing experience.
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