Titanic Masquerade: A Weekend Celebration of the Edwardian Era

Name: Titanic Masquerade: A Weekend Celebration of the Edwardian Era
Start: 2025-04-11T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-13T00:00:00-04:00
Location: 18 Washington Square West, Salem, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01970

Schedule

Fri, 11 Apr, 2025 at 05:00 pm to Sun, 13 Apr, 2025 at 12:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

18 Washington Square West, Salem, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01970 | Salem, MA

Step onto the Titanic with a weekend of storytelling, dinners, tea, and our Grand Descent Masquerade Ball. Experience the Grand Voyage: A First-Class Pass with an overnight package for Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2025 | CAPTAIN’S COCKTAIL HOUR (5:00pm-6:30pm)
Guests of the Hawthorne are invited to an exclusive “Captain’s Cocktail Hour” on the lower deck. Surrounded by wood-panel walls and porthole windows, you will feel as though you have been transported to the 1912 cabin. Mingle with other passengers while enjoying some light nosh and Titanic-inspired cocktails - like the “Maiden Voyage” - from the cash bar. Among the chatter, listen to acting Captain Edward Smith recite shipboard tails, historical insights, and other stories that bring the era’s elegance and adventure to life.
$30 Ticket (exclusive – available to hotel guests only) includes:
• Cash bar featuring themed cocktails + mocktails
• Light hors d’oeuvres inspired by those presented on board
• Styled room to set the scene
• Historical entertainer and educated story teller
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FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2025 | FIRST CLASS DINNER (begins at 7:00pm)
Experience Titanic’s final First-Class Menu with an elegant 8-course tasting dinner accompanied by live string entertainment. Complete with white glove tableside service, a customary mid-dinner cocktail, and a strolling decadent dessert cart, guests enjoy an authentic tribute to the first-class passengers of their time.
$95 Ticket (open to hotel guests + public) includes:
• 8-course first-class Titanic-inspired dinner tasting menu: Including, but not limited to, tableside caviar service
• Classic cocktail offered mid-dinner; a customary palate cleanser offered to first class
• Roving decadent dessert cart, served tableside
• White glove service
• Coffee and tea
• Tax and gratuity
• Live entertainment
• Tableside cocktail service (additional beverages purchased on cash basis)
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FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2025 | THIRD CLASS SUPPER (begins at 5:00pm)
For a more relaxed option, enjoy a “Third Class Supper” in the Tavern. Special Titanic-themed, third-class menu items will be available starting Friday evening and throughout the weekend. This is not a ticketed event. Specials (along with the daily Tavern menu) will be available to hotel guests, event guests and the general public. Reservations strongly encouraged.
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SATURDAY APRIL 12, 2025 | EDWARDIAN ETIQUETTE + SPARKLING TEA BRUNCH (11:00am-1:00pm)
Enjoy an afternoon tea inspired by Titanic’s First-Class Tea Service; complete with finger sandwiches, pastries, and tea blends presented in Edwardian-style china. After a bubbly toast, the knowledgeable “Mrs. Gertrude Francis Eaton-Darley,” will lead you through Edwardian social graces, from how to properly sip tea to greetings and conversation tips appropriate for 1912.
$45 Ticket (open to hotel guests + public) includes:
• Tea service with educational entertainment
• Themed actress of the Edwardian era
• Prosecco starter
• Finger sandwiches, pastries + bites
• Themed décor
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SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2025 | TITANIC MASQUERADE, “THE GRAND DESCENT COSTUME BALL”
A CELEBRATION OF THE EDWARDIAN ERA (7:30pm-12:00am)
On Saturday, don your best period costume and join us in the Hawthorne Ballroom, inspired by Titanic’s grand interiors. Enjoy a live performance on arrival with Edwardian classics and Titanic-themed music that will fill the room with reflection. Sip on themed cocktails from the cash bar, and savor passed hors d'oeuvres – curated bites from the era. The masquerade ball then comes to life with an upbeat dance party, where the live performer will join the modern-day disc jockey. Stick around for the costume contest and the grand dessert display of Titanic classics accompanied by coffee and tea. For the complete experience, remain on the dance floor until you hear the final bell.
$135 per ticket (open to hotel guests + public)
• Costume masquerade party
• Live instrumentals and DJ
• Light hors d’oeuvres
• Cash bar with themed cocktails
• Decadent dessert display, coffee and tea
• Costume contest with prizes
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HOTEL PACKAGES
• Two nights accommodation in room type of your choice
• Captain’s cocktail reception
• First class 5-course dinner with cocktail and entertainment
• Tea experience and brunch
• Two tickets to the costume ball, celebrating the Edwardian era
Complimentary on-site parking and morning coffee always included. Rates for two guests start at $995 per night before tax. Call Brynn Bodero at 978-825-4322 for complete details and to book your stay.
** Two night stay plus tickets to the ball also available.