Hope Street Hotel

You can keep a meeting, the lunch, the evening dinner and your delegates’ beds under one roof, choosing from nine private-hire rooms that run from a 12-seat boardroom to a fifth-floor room with terraces that seats 130 theatre style. Delegate packages bundle room hire from 8am to 6pm with breaks, lunch in one of the two in-house restaurants and the presentation kit, so you are not pricing AV and catering separately. Hope Street Hotel is an independent hotel of 149 bedrooms at 40 Hope Street in Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter, between the two cathedrals. It occupies a converted 1860s warehouse, a former 1960s police station and part of the old School for the Blind.

Event spaces and capacities

The hotel publishes nine spaces. Fifth Two is the largest, with 130 theatre style, 110 for a banquet and 150 for a drinks reception, plus two rooftop terraces open until 10pm. Fifth One, next to it on the fifth floor, has its own bar and a covered terrace. The Residents’ Lounge also takes 150 standing, has its own street entrance and can be combined with the Conference Room next door or partitioned off as a breakout. The 39-seat cinema has sofas and armchairs, a 4.2 metre screen, surround sound and HDMI and casting inputs, and can be booked with the First Room for a meeting that needs a second room. There is no exhibition hall. Floor areas are published for three rooms only.

Boardroom layouts seat 30 in Fifth Two, Fifth One and The Clubroom, 24 in The Residents’ Lounge and the Conference Room, 20 in The Old Bookroom, 14 in the First Room and 12 in The Boardroom. U-shapes seat 32 in The Clubroom, 30 in Fifth Two, 24 in The Residents’ Lounge and the Conference Room and 20 in Fifth One. Capacities as published by the venue on its meeting spaces page and the individual room pages, checked 14 November 2026.

Getting there and parking

Delegates arriving by train can walk from Liverpool Lime Street in about 15 minutes, and the hotel gives 10 to 12 minutes from Liverpool Central. Buses 86, 86a and 86c stop on Hardman Street, four minutes away, and run every six minutes to the centre and Lime Street. The hotel puts Liverpool John Lennon Airport 20 to 30 minutes away by road, with the 86a and 80a buses from Myrtle Street, Manchester Airport about an hour away and the M6 about 25 minutes. There is no hotel car park. The hotel points drivers to on-street meters (charged 7am to 11pm), a car park on Caledonia Street opposite at £16 for 24 hours and the Anglican Cathedral car park on Upper Duke Street, five minutes’ walk, at £14.50. Three Blue Badge bays sit on Caledonia Street beside the Philharmonic Hall, and cars can drop off outside the entrance on Hope Street.

Catering, AV and accommodation

Food comes from the hotel’s own kitchens. Four day packages are published: two courses in The London Carriage Works (10 to 24 delegates), a sit-down lunch in 1931 (up to 30), a sharing lunch served in your room, or sandwiches, fries and salads for up to 24. Each includes pastries on arrival, two afternoon breaks, wifi, a projector and screen or TV screens, flipchart, clicker, HDMI and Apple adapters, and use of the guest office with a computer and printer. The venue lists extras such as HD Owl video conferencing at £200, breakfast rolls at £6 a head and extra flipcharts at £15. No day delegate rate is published, so you will need a quote. Fifth Two has its own sound system and lighting. For delegates who stay, the hotel has 149 bedrooms, four of them wheelchair accessible, plus a spa with a 15-metre pool and a 24-hour gym. The sustainability policy says all waste is diverted from landfill and that the hotel buys food from suppliers within 100 miles and uses filtered water rather than bottled water in its event spaces.

What to ask before you book

• The London Carriage Works package says extra hours are charged at £50 an hour after 6pm, while the other three packages say after 5pm. Ask which applies to your day.
• The Residents’ Lounge and Conference Room are below street level and The Boardroom is on the lower ground floor. The access statement lists four lifts and warns that some period features limit access, so ask for step-free routes to the rooms you shortlist.
• Only three rooms have published floor areas, and The Old Bookroom page repeats Fifth One’s figures. Ask for floor plans before you plan staging or exhibition tables.
• The Fifth Two terraces close at 10pm. If your drinks reception runs later, confirm what the indoor space can hold.
• Delegate packages cap numbers at 24 or 30. For a larger conference in Fifth Two or The Clubroom, ask for a bespoke catering quote and confirm the AV included.
• With no hotel car park, ask whether the hotel can reserve spaces nearby for speakers or equipment drop-offs.

Related on Events Review

• Conference venues in Liverpool
• Conference hotels
• Pullman Liverpool, a conference hotel on the waterfront
• Titanic Hotel Liverpool, a hotel in a dock warehouse
• Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, opposite on Hope Street
• Liverpool Cathedral, at the south end of Hope Street
• Liverpool City Halls
• Liverpool Experience Campus, for larger conferences
• Turn venue accessibility claims into a usable event plan
• Choose the venue around the event, not the headline capacity

Sources: Hope Street Hotel meeting spaces and room pages, delegate packages, contact and directions, access statement, our story, sustainability policy and FAQs, checked 14 November 2026.