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Hope Street Hotel
- Style
- Open-plan elegance
- Setting
- Lofty Liverpool palazzo
Liverpool’s first boutique hotel, the Hope Street Hotel is within the city’s cultural quarter, near many restaurants and theatres, and the art deco Philharmonic Hall.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 48, including seven deluxe rooms, three studio rooms and seven suites.
- Rates
- £140–£350. Continental breakfast, £9.50; full English, £14.50. A la carte breakfast menu also available.
- Check-out
- Weekdays, 11am; weekends, midday. Later check‑outs charged at £10 an hour, subject to availability.
- Facilities
- Free WiFi, DVD/CD library. In rooms, minifridge/champagne chiller, wall‑mounted LCD TV, DVD/CD player, free broadband internet access, underfloor heating, mist‑free mirrors, ‘rain dance’ shower heads, REN toiletries.
- Children
- Welcome: games available; kitchen accommodating. Cots and extra beds for under‑14s can be provided in the studio rooms, at no extra cost.
- Also
- In‑room beauty treatments can be arranged, and small pets can be put up – a cleaning fee of £30 will be charged.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Room 311 has a wonderful view over the rooftops. All suites have oak flooring and Bang & Olufsen TVs and DVD players. Suite 402 has the most spectacular view over the city, taking in the waterfront, the Mersey and (on
a clear day) the Welsh hills; 406 is an open‑plan suite with a sloping ceiling, exposed beams and a mezzanine bathroom with a huge Italian wooden bathtub.
- Packing tips
- Binoculars or a zoom lens, for a close-up view of the Liver Birds atop the Liver Building.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Paul Askew is chef at the London Carriage Works, which offers a choice of menus, including à la carte, pre-theatre and tasting menus. His grown‑up Modern International dishes include confit of black‑faced Suffolk lamb and pan-roasted sea bass.
- Dress code
- Relaxed and urbane.
- Top table
- Table 15, nestled between the restaurant’s decorative glass shards.
- Last orders
- Lunch, 3pm; dinner, 9.30pm in the restaurant and 10pm in the brasserie. Bar: 11.30pm Monday–Thursday; 1.30am Friday and Saturday.
- Room service
- 24 hours: an all‑day menu including market specials, with a limited night menu available 10pm–7am.
- Hotel bar
- The Residents’ Lounge is a cocktail bar (open Thursdays to Saturdays only) with table service and live music – watch out for ivory tinklers on the Steinway grand piano and try one of the Pimm’s Royale champagne cocktails.
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Local restaurants
There are three great restaurants very close to the hotel. London Carriage Works, which is within Hope Street Hotel itself (+44 (0)151 705 2222), offers a fancy and fabulous fine dining menu as well as a brasserie selection – which is still pretty fancy and fabulous. The Lower Place, in the nearby Philharmonic Hall, shares some of the London Carriage Works' excellent cooking staff – and it shows. 60 Hope Street (+44 (0)151 707 6060) has an impressive dining room upstairs and a cosier café on the ground floor. Valparaiso on Hardman Street (+44 (0)151 708 6036) is a great Chilean restaurant, serving excellent seafood including delicious paella.
Local bars
Co-owned by electro band Ladytron, Korova on Fleet Street (+44 (0)151 709 7097) is a funky, music-focused venue that combines playful bar, canteen-style restaurant and buzzing club with panache. It’s a good place to catch promising young acts play live.
Local cafes
A smart, great‑value basement bistro beneath the theatre of the same name, Everyman Bistro has a daily changing menu of Francophile tarts, flans and quiches (+44 (0)151 708 9545).
Nightlife
While Caribbean‑themed Alma De Cuba on Seel Street (+44 (0)151 709 7097) attracts the footballers' wives and popstrels of Liverpool, it is also a great cocktail bar in a particularly beautiful building – a huge 18th-century church with stained glass windows and altar intact. The Living Room (+44 (0)151 236 1999) is another decidedly decadent bar with lots of beautiful people to see and be seen by.
Worth getting out of bed for
Visit the Everyman Liverpool and/or Liverpool Playhouse theatres, both of which are leading a resurgence of fine drama in the city (www.everymanplayhouse.com); the hotel can check ticket availability for you.
The beautiful 19th-century Albert Dock now houses Tate Liverpool as well as the Merseyside Maritime Museum, the Beatles Story (which is a lot of fun) and a couple of decent cafés. Croxteth Hall and Country Park (+44 (0)151 233 6910) has a walled garden and a Victorian farmyard (with some very sweet pigs) as well as various activities on offer, including horse riding.
Diary
February Chinese New Year is enthusiastically celebrated in the city’s Chinatown. March LEAP, a diverse festival of contemporary dance showcasing the talents of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (www.merseysidedance.co.uk/leap.html). April The Grand National meeting at nearby Aintree Racecourse (www.aintree.co.uk). July The Liverpool Comedy Festival. August The massive Mathew Street Music Festival boasts a strange but sometimes wonderful musical line-up: old favourites jostle alongside up-and-comers, pop waifs and cover bands (www.mathewstreetfestival.com). International Beatles Week attracts more than 200 bands from around the world to play tribute to the city’s favourite sons, with markets and exhibitions dedicated to the famous foursome (www.cavern-liverpool.co.uk/beatleweek).
Recommended rooms
Only King Deluxe categories and upwards fit an extra bed or cot. Studio rooms are the most suitable for families; they've got enough space for at least one extra bed or cot.
Activities
Reception staff are clued up on the city's family-friendly attractions, and have lots of leaflets available. They recommend visiting World Museum Liverpool and taking a waterfront tour on the Yellow Duckmarine bus.
Meals
Children are allowed in the restaurant at all times. There isn't a dedicated children's menu, but chefs will make smaller portions of dishes on the regular menu. Staff are happy to heat up milk and baby food, and provide packed lunches. Milk can be stored in the kitchen's fridges.
Babysitting
The hotel doesn't provide a babysitting service.
Baby-listening
Baby monitors work in all rooms. Bring your own, and keep it at your table in the restaurant.
No need to pack
High chairs are provided in the restaurant.
