Hope Street Hotel
Liverpool, United Kingdom[view map]
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For a first time visit to Liverpool, Hope Street is the perfect location to stay and enjoy a weekend packed with shopping (the re-generation of the city has provided big-name shops alongside quirky boutiques and record stores), relaxing (thanks to the amazing bathroom and generous REN products at the hotel), eating (a fantastic dinner in a lively atmosphere at The Living Room), drinking (the Carriage Works hotel bar does a 'knock your socks off' mojhito) and dancing (around the hotel room, courtesy of the borrowed Michael Jackson CD!). My main tip is to pick up a fresh green apple from the huge platter at the hotel reception and walk everywhere – the city is small enough to walk around in a day, from the hotel down past the cathedrals and china town to the familiar sights of the docks, taking in the fantastic mixture of architecture and various art works around the city. Turning right onto Hope Street out of the hotel we found a wonderful organic farmers market which provided us with tasty croissants for breakfast, and then stumbled across a sculpture with suitcases and guitar cases of famous Liverpudlians – John Lennon and Paul McCartney included. My final suggestion is to try to fit in time to visit Crosby beach on the way home for a bracing walk to see Antony Gormley's statues... in the winter sunshine, this was the perfect end to a perfect stay.
This was our fifth year at the Hope Street Hotel. I cannot think of going to the Aintree Festival and not staying there! We're always welcomed by Tracy at reception and she says that she knows that the Festival has started when we arrive. A great place to stay and yes, we'll be back next year!
Liverpool is certainly up and coming, no doubt about that, what with the city centre re-development and the waterfront with the Tate etc, but it lacks good places to eat for a major city. If you are staying in the Hope Street Hotel, which I highly recommend, you need to book in advance as the few good restaurants tend to be busy at the weekends. The London Carriage Works restaurant is attached to the Hotel and is definitely worth considering. The food is prepared to an excellent standard and is not overpriced, but when I was in Liverpool the menu lacked excitement – the usual steak and fish option.
Another excellant restaurant is 60 Hope Street, just down the road from the hotel. Again, booking is essential; you are sometimes competing with Liverpool football players for a table! The menu changes reguarly and is a lot more interesting for about the same price as the London Carriage Works. If you want a pre-meal drink I can recommend the Philharmonic Dining Rooms – a large heritage pub in Hope Street. This is a gem of a Victorian pub, not quite in the gin palace mode but very interesting inside. The gents' toilets are a wonder to behold; they are exactly like they were when first installed.
I went to the Bar and Grill in Bold Street for a evening meal, (having failed to get into 60 Hope Street). It used to be a Halifax branch and on a Saturday night is bustling with all age groups.Tthe centrepiece of the building is a cocktail bar, square-shaped so you can stand there and watch the bar staff making cocktails. I had an excellent Bloody Mary. My partner had a martini and that too was made to perfection. The meal was very enjoyable and there was a good choice on the menu and the waiting staff were friendly and efficient. The whole meal cost £100, including two cocktails, two starters, two mains, six lovely truffles and a bottle of wine – excellent value.
A meal at 60 Hope Street on Friday night and the London Carriage Works on the Saturday night were great and would high agree with your recommendations.
Near the hotel on the corner is a public house called the Philharmonic Dining Rooms aka The Phil - this has to be in your next book as a recommendation. The building itself is an architectural delight from the outside, and even more impressive on the inside with superb high ceilings and an art decor design - in fact the mens toilets are subject to the occasional guided tour for ladies they are that impressive.
A great range of well kept ales is on offer, and its reported to have been John Lennon's favourite pub in Liverpool. Its certainly mine.
Activites in the local area. You can have guided tours through the National Trust of Paul and Johns childhood homes, and there are lots of Beatle themed tourist things to do.
Liverpool One, the new shoopping Centre, is a great place to wanted round for retail therapy - and you admire the legendary scouse-wit that has named the Everton shop in the centre Everton Two (their postal address must raise a few laughs).
We also got the train to Chester from Central Station (just 10 minutes from the Hotel) and have a wonderful 40 mile cycle ride back to Liverpool on the National Cycle Network Route 56 (Hope Hotel were very obliging with the bike storage).
Great Hotel, Great City, great break - Thanks.
This hotel has everything you need on a business trip…a quiet room, good room-service food and parking.
