Eurovision Song Contest 2023: Cheapest hotels available in and around Liverpool on night of the grand final
02.03.2023 - 23:53
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With tickets going on sale for Eurovision next week, thousands of people across Greater Manchester will already be plotting on how to get Liverpool and where to stay when the event comes to the North West for the first time ever in May.
When it was announced that Liverpool had won the bid in October 2022, Mayor Steve Rotherham called out hotels over price hikes and a number of two-person rooms are priced up between £1,000 and £1,868 for the date of the grand final - Saturday May 13. All of those hotels are drastically cheaper the week after.
A night at the most expensive two-person single-night hotel room that we found in Liverpool, on price comparison site Trivago, costs £1,299 more on May 13 than it does on May 20. However there are some much cheaper options available, despite differing levels of price rises being extremely common across the board.
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If you want to stay in Liverpool itself, there are a few hotels under the £300 mark. For convenience, the pick of these is probably Travelodge Liverpool Central Exchange Street.
The hotel costs £260 for the night and is less than a 20 minute walk from the M&S Bank Arena, where the final is being held. It is also just over a five minute walk from Pier Head - where the Eurovision Village will be based.
Slightly further afield in the suburb of Fazakerley is the cheaper Travelodge Liverpool Stonedale Park. A similar room there is £220 and the Arena is around an hour away on public transport or around 25 minutes in a taxi.
On the other side of the River Mersey, in the Wirral town of Bromborough, we found a two-person room for £159 for the night at Village Hotel Wirral. The hotel