The aim was to convey an impression that the passengers were in a floating hotel rather than a ship; as one passenger recalled, on entering the ship's interior a passenger would "at once lose the feeling that we are on board ship, and seem instead to be entering the hall of some great house on shore".
其目的是傳達給乘客一種「在漂浮酒店而不是在船上」的印象；正如一位乘客回憶進入鐵達尼號內部的感受：「我們立即失去身在船上的感覺，反而像是進到岸上豪宅的大廳內」。