europeandream

After 6 nights (London/Bath/Cotswolds) and then 2 nights in Betws-y-Coed, we need to be in Liverpool John Lennon Airport around 11:00am (for 1:30 flight). Where would you spend your last night: in Conwy Wales, Chester England, or at a hotel at the airport? We are early risers;flying out of Liverpool on a summer Tuesday morning; will have a rental car but unsure of traffic considerations.

Susan7

I'd stay in Liverpool, the Adelphi Hotel near Lime Street Station is a good location and an interesting historic hotel.

Apart from all the Beatlemania there are some interesting museums and galleries to visit: Tate Liverpool, The International Slavery Museum, as well as a contemporary photography gallery and the Blue Coat Gallery.

ron

I guess it depends on your comfort level with being 2 hours away from the airport. Certainly, I'd rather be closer and would stay in Chester. It would be very pleasant to wander around the centre of Chester in the evening before the flight.

If I chose to stay in Wales, I wouldn't move to Conwy. Why bother with an additional packing/unpacking to get 15 minutes closer to the airport?

By the way, from Betws, its probably quicker to get your destination going via Llangollen and Ruthin, rather than Conwy and along the coast.

If you choose to take Susan's advice, do check the reviews of the Britannia Adelpi hotel on Trip Advisor.

Susan7

Good advice Ron, boy the Adelphi reviews are really scathing!

I'm shocked, the last time I stayed there, a couple of years ago, it was very good value: an enormous room with a view, with matching enormous bath, good breakfast and very friendly staff.

julia_t

This Beatles themed hotel has just opened in Liverpool

www.harddaysnighthotel.com

It looks good but I'd rather stay in Chester than Liverpool.

TheFlannerpooch

Chester's just a poor man's Bath or Oxford.

Liverpool, by contrast, is "the centre of the consciousness of the human universe" (Allen Ginsberg, though history doesn't record what he was on at the time) and The Pool of Life (Carl Jung). As well as the possessor of the largest number of buildings listed for conservation of any city in Britain outside London - easily outstripping Edinburgh for example. More museums than anywhere outside London (clearly showing up Oxford and Bath for the philistine cultural deserts they are). More splendid pubs than anywhere in the world (the men's toilets at The Philharmonic are a tourist attraction in their own right, with organised visiting hours). More EU-subsidised pretentious garbage this year (Liverpool's the European Capital of Culture) than anywhere in Europe - though the Klimt exhibition looks worthwhile.

What's more, last time we stayed there, the staff at The Adelphi were REALLY nice to me. Even scurried around the larder to find me some biscuits, while my sadistic Bosses were trying to starve me as usual. And they were special biscuits for me (the tin said Rover Assortment, and they were much nicer than the organic, wholewheat, hypo-allergenic, probiotic, muck the Bosses think they can palm me off with.)

Enormous corridors, so I could run around to my heart's content. Nice big bedrooms. Sadly, I couldn't smell any rats, though everyone on the Web says there were loads (I LOVE chasing rats: we've got lots at home, so I think all those Web whingers are making it up), and I couldn't even find any of those creepy-crawly things everyone whinges about finding at The Adelphi (I was looking forward to a few as a snack) And the area round the hotel's knee-deep in yummy fast-food wrapping. Best place in the world for an early morning walk.

If you've not visited Liverpool, it's cultural vandalism to use its airport without seeing Europe's most consistently enjoyable city. Like the loonies who fly into Pisa airport and refuse to go and see the Piazza dei Miracoli.

Only humans could be that dumb.

caroline_edinburgh

There are no cities in north Wales

Padraig

caroline_edinburgh wrote: "There are no cities in north Wales".

Bangor has a cathedral -- one of the most squat cathedrals I have seen.

For a short visit (a few hours + an overnight) I think Chester is easier to get a handle on than is Liverpool.

I have found parking difficult to manage in both cities, so whatever the OP chooses, it might be a good idea to seek a hotel with its own parking.

caroline_edinburgh

Cathedral doesn't necessarily = city these days.

caroline_edinburgh

However I see I am wrong and Bangor (pop, 20,000) is actually officially a city, even though it's not what most people in the UK would imagine when they think city.

www.ukcities.co.uk/definitions/

tortoise

I would definitely opt for a final night in Chester. That would allow you to take a walk on The Rows, a stroll through Grosvenor Park and along the river or walk the City Walls. Depending what time you arrive into Chester, the Town Crier makes a proclamation at The Cross at noon most days in the summer.
I wouldn't anticipate a problem travelling to Liverpool airport in time for your flight.