11 best hotels in Liverpool 2025

Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter is the handsome setting for one of the city’s stalwart boutique hotels, albeit one that never rests on its laurels. Opened in 2004, the building was originally part of the London Carriage Works that was built in the 1860s in an elegant Venetian style, and has had two modern expansions since using a sleek Scandi design taking the number of bedrooms up to 149, in eight different styles.

There are nine suites, though it’s the Corner Suite that’s most impressive. The sharp Scandi lines are a chimera of earthy cream, black and white, while natural light floods across room’s king bed, brown leather sofa and mid-century modern desk and chair. The views are sensational too, looking out toward Liverpool’s skyline that includes landmarks like St Luke’s Church, the Liver Building, Radio City Tower and the wigwam-like Metropolitan Cathedral. The Rooftop Suite one floor above is even more impressive, with a terrace (and hot tub) gifted widescreen views of the Mersey River, the Wirral and the distant mist-shrouded hills of North Wales.

The amenities here are exceptional for a boutique hotel, starting with the spa. Its steamy outdoor vitality pool sits within a Cheshire redbrick Victorian courtyard, while the marble hamman, Arabic rasual treatment room, Himalayan salt sauna and serenity lounge are sublime (the latter includes pushable buttons for drinks). Uniquely, the hotel also has its own cinema with cosy suede seats and sofas lining the small theatre, with a private bar next door.

Floor-to-ceiling glass shards are the standout design feature at the hotel’s modern British London Carriage Works restaurant, while Mediterranean fare is plated up at the more informal 1931 restaurant.

Address: 40 Hope St, Liverpool L1 9DA
Price: From around £119 per night