Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool
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Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool's original boutique hotel has just finished a substantial growth spurt, adding 40 new bedrooms, a new entrance onto one of the city's most civilised streets and more space, including a quiet ‘bookroom', for guests. Despite the expansion, you're no more likely to score a last-minute room here during Liverpool's notoriously frenetic bedroom rushes - big matches and the Grand National really do flood the city's hotels, good and bad - but it's nice to know there's a little more space on an ordinary weekend.
Why? Despite a growth in competition, this is still Liverpool's most relaxing temporary address, and they know what they're doing when it comes to comfort. Beds are seriously huge, the kind that make nocturnal strangers of the most clingy co-sleepers, toiletries are from the nature-friendly but effective British label REN, and design - apart, perhaps, from the motion-sensor light switches, a challenge whether drunk or sober - is intuitive. In both new and old wings, lots of chunky wood and springy sisal matting makes the place feel a bit like a loft apartment with amenities (CD and DVD library, in-room beauty treatments, pet friendly, and they'll do a spot of ironing for free). A couple of penthouse suites were added as part of the extension, but our room - a relatively humble king standard - was pretty spacious, with a bathroom big enough to house a family car and views over the city to the Mersey and distant hills.
The Hope Street Hotel's other USP is its restaurant, the London Carriage Works, where chef Paul Askew specialises in refined presentations of local ingredients, including excellent meat. Dotted with sculptural glass shards and customers who regard Champagne as an all-day drink, it has a reputation for swank, but doesn't demand it of its customers. If you can't make lunch or dinner, breakfast is a generous Continental buffet or hot specials like Manx kippers with parsley butter, best taken at table 3, a corner spot with cracking views inside and out.
Contact tel: +44 151 709 3000, e-mail:
Cost standard double room: ££££
Services hotel restaurant, hotel bar, room service, business services
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