The company has ambitions for a golf course, a ski resort, a floating hotel and a host of other delights.

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Upon boarding this floating hotel, the local Namibian staff greeted me with a welcome song, along with friendly smiles and a genuine warmth.

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First came an indoor ski resort in 2005, then a floating palace hotel in the sea in 2008, and in 2011, a record-breaking stratospheric tower pierced the clouds.

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Liverpool businessman Mr Bubbles already owns two other floating hotels in the dock - the FAB4 Beatles Yellow Submarine Hotel and one themed around the Batman villain The Joker.

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Mr Bubbles said he surveyed visitors to his neighbouring floating hotels and "99.9% of them" agreed that a Titanic hotel would be a good idea.

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His wife, who had been most excited to see the Floating Market, slept even through dinner, for he remembered a meal in the hotel with only Romi and Ruma, in a solarium overlooking a garden, tasting the spiciest food he'd ever had in his life as mosquitoes swarmed angrily behind his children's faces.

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