{"id":79116,"date":"2022-02-12T17:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T12:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/host-of-a-titanic-themed-airbnb-says-its-an-ideal-stay-for-couples\/"},"modified":"2022-02-12T17:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T12:01:55","slug":"host-of-a-titanic-themed-airbnb-says-its-an-ideal-stay-for-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/host-of-a-titanic-themed-airbnb-says-its-an-ideal-stay-for-couples\/","title":{"rendered":"Host of a Titanic-Themed Airbnb Says It&#8217;s an Ideal Stay for Couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul class=\"summary-list summary-list-variant\">\n<li>A Titanic-themed Airbnb in Northern Ireland is available to rent for \u00a3200, around $270, a night.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Guests are treated to ambient ocean noises, a full-size lifeboat sofa and a &#8220;kissing deck.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The owner says he didn&#8217;t want to focus on the tragedy, but the dreams of people on board the Titanic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter-signup\n                          inline-newsletter-signup-variant\n                         headline-regular loading\" id=\"formContainer\" data-component-type=\"inline-newsletter-module\" data-list=\"Sidekick\" data-acq-source=\"morningbrew\" data-event-label=\"morning_brew\" data-origin=\"MorningBrew\" data-campaign=\"travel\"><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The owner of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airbnb.co.uk\/rooms\/45147705?guests=1&amp;adults=1\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">immersive Titanic-themed vacation rental<\/a> with a three-meter long ship-styled bed and &#8220;kissing deck&#8221; says it&#8217;s the perfect spot for loved-up couples looking for an escape.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5255154\/\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">David Kinsella, an Irish film director<\/a> and mastermind behind the home, told Insider it took two-and-a-half years to complete the Titanic-inspired home that he equates to a &#8220;little Walt Disney World&#8221; for adults.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Airbnb is located in Belfast, near the Harland &amp; Wolff shipyard where the original Titanic was built in 1909 and where it eventually set out on its ill-fated cross-Atlantic journey in 1912. While the real journey ended in tragedy and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/titanic-famous-survivors-victims-2018-4?r=US&amp;IR=T\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">the loss of over 1,500 lives<\/a>, Kinsella said his &#8220;fantasy world&#8221; reimagines the voyage as if it&#8217;d been successful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure image-figure-image  \" data-type=\"img\" data-e2e-name=\"image-figure-image\" data-media-container=\"image\">\n<div class=\"lazy-holder \" style=\"padding-top: calc(100% * 3264 \/ 4352)\">\n<p>                          <img class=\"lazy-image \" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" data-content-type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcs='{\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/61fa94f6ef63e10018101f95\":{\"contentType\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"aspectRatioW\":4,\"aspectRatioH\":3}}' alt=\"Titanic-themed Airbnb.\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <noscript><br \/>\n                              <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Host-of-a-Titanic-Themed-Airbnb-Says-Its-an-Ideal-Stay.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n                          <\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                          <span class=\"image-source-caption \"><figcaption class=\"image-caption headline-bold\" data-e2e-name=\"image-caption\">\n                              The &#8220;third class bedroom&#8221; has paintings of construction workers in New York City.<br \/>\n                            <\/figcaption><span class=\"image-source headline-regular\" data-e2e-name=\"image-source\"><br \/>\n                                David Kinsella\/Airbnb<br \/>\n                              <\/span><br \/>\n                          <\/span><br \/>\n                      <\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than looking at the negative side of things, I decided let&#8217;s make the dreams of the people who were going on the Titanic come true,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kinsella said the home is available to book on Airbnb and Booking.com for around \u00a3200, or $271, a night and can sleep up to five people in three bedrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;third-class bedroom&#8221; has walls featuring people working on scaffolding and skyscrapers in Manhattan, jobs which the owner said many aboard the Titanic would&#8217;ve taken up if the ship hadn&#8217;t sunk.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another bedroom in the home comes equipped with a three-meter handmade wooden Titanic-styled bed. &#8220;You&#8217;re actually sleeping on the Titanic,&#8221; Kinsella said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure image-figure-image  \" data-type=\"img\" data-e2e-name=\"image-figure-image\" data-media-container=\"image\">\n<div class=\"lazy-holder \" style=\"padding-top: calc(100% * 2729 \/ 3638)\">\n<p>                          <img class=\"lazy-image \" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" data-content-type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcs='{\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/61fa954eef63e10018101fb0\":{\"contentType\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"aspectRatioW\":3638,\"aspectRatioH\":2729}}' alt=\"Titanic-themed Airbnb.\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <noscript><br \/>\n                              <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1644667315_269_Host-of-a-Titanic-Themed-Airbnb-Says-Its-an-Ideal-Stay.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n                          <\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                          <span class=\"image-source-caption \"><figcaption class=\"image-caption headline-bold\" data-e2e-name=\"image-caption\">\n                              A painting of the popular dancing scene from the Titanic movie.<br \/>\n                            <\/figcaption><span class=\"image-source headline-regular\" data-e2e-name=\"image-source\"><br \/>\n                                David Kinsella\/Airbnb<br \/>\n                              <\/span><br \/>\n                          <\/span><br \/>\n                      <\/figure>\n<p>The third sleeping quarter is known as the &#8220;Rose&#8221; room, aptly named after Kate Winslet&#8217;s character in the 1998 James Cameron-directed movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The room has 360 degrees views of the dancing scene actually from the movie,&#8221; Kinsella said. Painting for the room, which also features a bed &#8220;floating on the ocean,&#8221; took around 14 months.<\/p>\n<p>Downstairs, the kitchen is decorated to depict the actual sinking of the ship and as well as the SS Californian, a ship that &#8220;sailed past but didn&#8217;t do anything,&#8221; during the Titanic tragedy, according to Kinsella.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a full-size lifeboat and when you go in there, you have the ambient sounds with the wind and the waves and the birds that go 24 hours a day,&#8221; he said. The lifeboat doubles as a sofa where guests can sit and rewatch the movie.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure image-figure-image  \" data-type=\"img\" data-e2e-name=\"image-figure-image\" data-media-container=\"image\">\n<div class=\"lazy-holder \" style=\"padding-top: calc(100% * 639 \/ 853)\">\n<p>                          <img class=\"lazy-image \" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" data-content-type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcs='{\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/61fa95904faa730018ff6a24\":{\"contentType\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"aspectRatioW\":853,\"aspectRatioH\":639}}' alt=\"Titanic-themed Airbnb.\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <noscript><br \/>\n                              <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1644667315_239_Host-of-a-Titanic-Themed-Airbnb-Says-Its-an-Ideal-Stay.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n                          <\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                          <span class=\"image-source-caption \"><figcaption class=\"image-caption headline-bold\" data-e2e-name=\"image-caption\">\n                              Guests lounge on a lifeboat and rewatch the 1998 James Cameron film.<br \/>\n                            <\/figcaption><span class=\"image-source headline-regular\" data-e2e-name=\"image-source\"><br \/>\n                                David Kinsella\/Airbnb<br \/>\n                              <\/span><br \/>\n                          <\/span><br \/>\n                      <\/figure>\n<p>Outside on the &#8220;kissing deck&#8221; is where the romance of the home really shines, Kinsella said. &#8220;It&#8217;s like a deck of the Titanic but it&#8217;s painted 360 degrees of first-class, second-class, third-class couples all kissing,&#8221; he added. &#8220;All thinking it&#8217;s wonderful, leaving Ireland, Cork, on their way to New York.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Guests he&#8217;s welcomed into the home &#8220;want to live the journey on the Titanic to New York,&#8221; Kinsella said. While COVID-19 made it difficult for guests to visit over the past two years, he said his fantasy world has proven to be a success so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m still getting these romantic couples just flying in to stay at my romantic world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen anything like these and I create them to give people entertainment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure image-figure-image  \" data-type=\"img\" data-e2e-name=\"image-figure-image\" data-media-container=\"image\">\n<div class=\"lazy-holder \" style=\"padding-top: calc(100% * 3264 \/ 4352)\">\n<p>                          <img class=\"lazy-image \" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" data-content-type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcs='{\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/61fa95c3ef63e10018101fd6\":{\"contentType\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"aspectRatioW\":4,\"aspectRatioH\":3}}' alt=\"Titanic-themed Airbnb.\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <noscript><br \/>\n                              <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1644667315_198_Host-of-a-Titanic-Themed-Airbnb-Says-Its-an-Ideal-Stay.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n                          <\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                          <span class=\"image-source-caption \"><figcaption class=\"image-caption headline-bold\" data-e2e-name=\"image-caption\">\n                              The &#8220;kissing deck.&#8221;<br \/>\n                            <\/figcaption><span class=\"image-source headline-regular\" data-e2e-name=\"image-source\"><br \/>\n                                David Kinsella\/Airbnb<br \/>\n                              <\/span><br \/>\n                          <\/span><br \/>\n                      <\/figure>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/news\/this-titanic-themed-airbnb-might-be-the-most-questionable-listing-weve-ever-found-012622\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">Time Out&#8217;s review of the Titanic-themed home<\/a> called it one of &#8220;the most questionable listings&#8221; they&#8217;ve ever found, Kinsella said all of his work always focuses on the positive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you look at the Titanic one, why focus on the tragedy? Focus on why did everybody want to be on the Titanic,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve done it all my life. It&#8217;s so much more difficult to make something positive as it is to make something negative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Titanic-themed Airbnb in Northern Ireland is available to rent for \u00a3200, around $270, a night.\u00a0 Guests are treated to ambient ocean noises, a full-size lifeboat sofa and a &#8220;kissing deck.&#8221; The owner says he didn&#8217;t want to focus on the tragedy, but the dreams of people on board the Titanic. 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