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No thanks. I will stay at home. IMHO driving a motorcycle is safer.
Come on. 3615 motorcyclists died in the US in 2010. How many deaths from cruise ships that year? I can't find a simple list, but I think we all know the worldwide number is small, and many have nothing to do with cruise ship safety per se. People fall/jump overboard.
Even when the Costa Concordia sank, just eight people died.
I'm not suggesting cruise ships are as safe as they could or should be. But comparing to motorcycles is silly.
Come on. 3615 motorcyclists died in the US in 2010. How many deaths from cruise ships that year? I can't find a simple list, but I think we all know the worldwide number is small, and many have nothing to do with cruise ship safety per se. People fall/jump overboard.
Even when the Costa Concordia sank, just eight people died.
I'm not suggesting cruise ships are as safe as they could or should be. But comparing to motorcycles is silly.
Agreed. Statistically, there is hardly anything more dangerous than a motor vehicle. I think the only thing that tops it is spending time in one's bathroom at home.
As for the OP: is it a good idea? From an economic standpoint, it is probably a great idea. I've no doubt that people will be lining up to book passage just because.
I think it reeks of vanity personally, but, hey, if the man has/can raise the money, it's not better or worse than Sir Richard Branson building a space plane.
I wouldn't have a problem with sailing on it. If I could take a boat ride and book a third class cabin, no problem. I'd expect to pay less than a standard cruise. I don't need all kinds of diversions regular cruises offer anyway. Give me a deck chair and some decent food and I'm happy.
But I'd want my own bathroom and the original third class steerage cabins only had sinks with running water. There were only three bathtubs for all of third class. Even second class cabins didn't have private bathrooms. That would be a problem. That virus that runs amok on cruise ships would be a big problem.
Would the ship run on coal? Thats a cheap enough fuel to use but could they do it these days?
BTW, My dad sailed on the original Queeen Mary. Him and 15,000 other guys on one trip during WW2.
I would buy a ticket on it if it's an almost identical replica and if it was going to take the same route on the same days. I'm a Titanic freak who's obsessed with all things Titanic. I don't pretend to know why, lol.
Id be kinda freaked out getting on this thing. I mean I'm sure it will be amazing, and that it would be a wonderful adventure to get on it. But id be on the deck looking for icebergs.
Would you travel on the Titanic II?
I would LOVE to travel on it! Will it go NYC to London? We need to bring back trans Atlantic ships. With the technology we have now, icebergs should not be a problem.
Meh, clearly it won't be a carbon copy, for any number of reasons - no shipyard knows how to build a huge riveted hull any more, nobody has the necessary experience with large reciprocating steam engines any more, nobody would dream of working under conditions like 1912 stokers, and as was pointed out above, modern passengers do not mix with 1912 plumbing - to name a few.
It'll be a sort of movable Disney ride, "The Titanic Experience".
And no, I won't be on it. Not because I am not a cruise type of persons, but for matters of taste.
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I don't pretend to know why, lol. 
