Don’t need answer fast. I visited Liverpool for 3 days on my recent trip to the UK and I really liked it. I also spent 2 days in Manchester, which was ok, and 4 days in London.
I really liked Liverpool and I’m considering visiting again on next year’s UK trip. I somewhat know my way around the city centre , I loved the pubs, Liverpool One, and the docks.
However, I’ve seen very little of the UK. My next trip will be another 10-12 days. Should I include a second trip to Liverpool on the next trip? The idea of flying to Manchester and taking the quick train rather than Heathrow is very appealing. But, there’s so many places in the UK I want to see: Cardiff, Bath, Brighton, Newcastle, York. I certainly left a few Liverpool attractions that I’d like to visit, Anglican cathedral, Tate Liverpool, plus a visit to Liverpool Football Club Stadium.
If you like it, then just go - you provided a well rounded list of attractions you’d like to see, and the Tate is really interesting. But if you want my opinion: nah, I’d skip it for this trip if I were in your shoes. The new cathedral is a modernist mess that I don’t really like, a stadium wouldn’t be high in my list of must see attractions.
There’s much more of England that deserves to be seen - you yourself listed Cardiff, Bath, Brighton, Newcastle, York, and in general North Eastern England is really underestimated.
I’d visit Bath and York over Liverpool any day. I’d also add Bristol, just a stone’s throw from Bath, if you haven’t been there.
Sure, if you like the city that much (it is a lovely city). Though I agree that the Anglican Cathedral is disappointing.
However, it would probaby be a better use of time to visit one of the many other cities on your list. If you flew in to Manchester and went to Bristol or Bath (or both - they’re so close to each other that it’s easy to see both in a coupe of days) then you’d pass through some lovely countryisde on the way too.
Liverpool’s great, but would probably look to go to new places, myself. Edinburgh is in the same league, as another suggestion - the other cities you mention all have their attractions but lack the grandeur of those two.
The Anglican cathedral in Liverpool is the classic one - the Catholic cathedral is the modernist construction. I actually quite like it, although it’s obviously polarising. What is not in doubt is the interior - one of the most beautiful churches I’ve seen anywhere. Either way, they’re a mile separated so you can compare and contrast.
Anfield could be worth a visit depending on taste - a sort of Proustian sadness of loss and under-achievement permeates the place, like distant memories of a forgotten happiness. Not everyone’s cup of tea but certainly unique.
Yes, and my first two days in Liverpool were very Beatles heavy. I did the National Trust tour of the John Lennon and Paul McCartney homes. I also did the Magical Mystery Tour bus tour of Beatles sites. I also spent quite a bit of time on Matthews Street, visiting the Beatles pubs in that area, not just the Cavern sites, but also the White Star and the Grapes.
I did skip the Beatles Story as I was a bit Bealted out, I went instead to the excellent Merseyside Museum near the Albert Docks.
Are you still open to suggestions? You could consider this plan, if you have time: land in London, pop over to Brighton, back to London then travel to Bristol and Bath (only a short train ride away), from there to Cardiff, then Liverpool - why not - and then on to the north, to York and Newcastle.
I would also like to suggest that you to stop in Lincoln and Durham on the way to Newcastle, and then to continue on to Edinburgh. Much more interesting than Brighton and Cardiff, in my opinion.
You liked Liverpool and obviously got a feel for it and want to see more, so why not?
I think sometimes it’s better to get to know one place a bit, rather than to take a whistle stop tour and ticking off ‘things to see’. Also trying to see too many places in the limited time you’ve got will involve a larger proportion of your time sitting in trains and waiting around at stations.
Maybe Liverpool and another Northern destination would work?
Yes, I’m open to any suggestions for travel ideas in the UK and also Ireland. I’m in the very beginning of planning my 2016 trip, I want to book things pretty early, probably around January. Hopefully, I’ll be able to have 12 full travel days, not including arrival and departure dates.
When we were on a British Isles cruise, at our Liverpool stop, we went to Port Sunlight and despite the dreary weather, it was a lovely way to spend a few hours. We walked around the village, admired the gardens, visited the Lady Lever museum, (and had cream tea in the basement restaurant) and chatted with several of the locals who happened by. We were on a bus trip, so we didn’t have as much time as we’d have liked, but it was still a very nice trip, and our tour guide was very informative.
Personally - as a Doper very, very familiar with the city - I’d vote choosing other places.
Liverpool is an utterly wonderful city to visit. Yet if the idea is that you’ve already done the main Beatles sites, the fact is that the rest of the city is pretty marginal. Worth seeing if you’re based in the town, but that’s about it.
if I do decide to include Liverpool, spending one day and probably staying the night in Chester is going to part of the trip. My last trip was focused on the city centres of Liverpool and Manchester as well as 4 days exploring London. Halfway through that trip, I really wish I had allocated one day to be out of the urban bustle.
I think I would avoid Lincoln, it really only has one place worth visiting, the cathedral, its not that great.
You’d like Whitby, maybe Durham, I’d also second Edinburgh.
Perhaps you might also think of trying a little something else, instead of heading for a large city, maybe go somewhere smaller - Portsmouth for the Naval History, its pretty much what made UK what it was.
There is a lot of charm in places such as Ambleside in the Lake District and Windemere, perhaps you could visit a couple of small market towns, Northallerton, Ripon, Sherborne, Lewes, Ludlow,Ashbourne. These are often the sorts of places that are very highly desirable places to live, they usually have very good specialist food outlets and restaurants.
If you can get there during the bike racing, then the Isle of Man is quite the thing