When I learnt that you were sending me on a trip to visit Liverpool to follow in the footsteps of The Beatles, I just had to book a room in the Hard Days Night Hotel. This boutique hotel is dedicated to The Beatles situated right beside the Cavern Club. To my surprise, the hotel and the room were both extremely pleasant and far from the bed giving me a “hard day’s night” it was both comfortable and modern, with fantastic twist of Beatles magic.
After having a fantastic night sleep I started the next day with a visit to The Beatles Story, a museum dedicated to the “Fab Four”. Located within Liverpool’s historic Albert Dock, The Beatles Story is a unique visitor attraction that transports you on an enlightening and atmospheric journey into the life, times, culture and music of The Beatles. Here you will get to experience what it was like to be a Beatles fan back in the 1960s especially if like me you were too young to remember it. This fantastic museum is a must when visiting Liverpool, what’s more currently we are offering a 2 for 1 entry on adults tickets.
After The Beatles Story visit, it was time to take a trip on The Magical Mystery Tour. This is a trip around the city on a bus that covers the daily lives of The Beatles before they became famous. On the bus you are entertained by one of Cavern City Tours professional guides as you travel around the city and its suburbs and discover the truly remarkable story of the boys who were to become the world’s best known musicians. It also stops at places such as Penny Lane and Strawberry fields, two locations which inspired two of their famous songs. You can even go up and touch those famous Strawberry Fields gates that were once stolen but returned by the thieves when they realised the gates were too famous to be sold even to a private collector. It is these “close-up and personal” touches that bring those songs to life and you can see what inspired “the boys” to write those lyrics.
The tour lasts two hours and after taking you on this fantasy ride it ends at the world renowned Cavern Club where the boys started their musical fame. Whilst it is still a musical venue and holds about 40 live band performances a week it is really a place of pilgrimage for Beatles fans. On the wall outside are bricks with the names of most major artists and groups and at its side is a sculpture of John Lennon leaning up against the wall. Returning to The Hard Days Night hotel after my tour I hit the road back to reality on my train heading south from Liverpool and away from “The Magical Mystery Tour”. This truly was a great adventure; it can be no surprise why Liverpool was voted Capital of Culture for 2008.
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Hard Day Night Hotel
The Beatles Story
Magical Mystery Tour
Since originally a native of England before settling in Brisbane, Australia, events like these are just one of the many memories that I look back and reminisce. But a trivia for you, if Liverpool produced the Beatles, did you know that in Brisbane is where the Bee Gees started? Now I feel like I have lived the best of both worlds. What a coincident indeed.
Posted by: Brisbane Bob | August 21, 2009 at 07:25 PM