The Titanic Hotel has recently opened in Liverpool. In Liverpool you will also find ‘30 James Street Hotel Home of the Titanic’, created at the former offices of the White Star Shipping Line. Now we hear that the Harland and Wolff drawing office at Belfast's Harland and Wolff (H & W) shipyard where the Titanic was first conceived is to be converted into an 84-bedroom boutique hotel.
The Heritage Lottery Fund is providing a £4.9million grant to restore the listed building which has been vacant since 1989.
The drawing office on Queen's Island was the hub where more than 1,000 ships were designed and planned. The new ‘Titanic Hotel’ will feature the story of Belfast's industrial heritage with fixtures and fittings throughout the hotel referencing its shipbuilding past.
The hotel will incorporate the old board room, telephony room and entrance lobby. Two historical drawing offices will be redeveloped into public spaces, one as a dining room and the other as a museum.
The hotel in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter is set to open in 2017 although a hotel operator is yet to be announced.
