Ibis Hotel- Liverpool

Small rooms, but very cheap, clean and efficient!
PROS:
–Only £117 ($ 185) for two weekday nights
–Simple, modern and clean rooms with efficient furniture setups.
–Tea kettle and such included with this low price.
–Walking distance to all the museums, Albert Docks, and Liverpool One mall.
–Restaurant is decent, and is open late. Most nearby restaurants stop serving food after 900pm. £10 Chicken & Mushroom Pie and the £12 Fish & Chips were good enough.
CONS
–Small rooms… but how much time do you really plan on spending in there?
-£8/​day for parking (this might be considered cheap for the UK?)
–Large tour groups may come through, causing a bit of chaos at registration and the restaurant.
-£8.50 extra for the breakfast buffet, but there are cheaper options near the hotel.
CONCLUSION: Luxury tourists will probably hate this place, but it is excellent for budget travelers and young backpacking couples who need a romantic night away from the hostel dorms.

This was the first of the Ibis hotels we stayed in while traveling around the UK. The Ibis Liverpool is located by Albert Docks and down the street from Liverpool One. The room itself was spacious with a small closet and a spaceship-​like bathroom. I didn’t really enjoy the shower but it was functional and came with a removable showerhead. The amenities that come with the room are sparse.
There was a hot water percolator, tea, coffee, sugar, and semi-​skim milk pods. There was a hair dryer for which I was pretty thankful for along with plenty of easy to find wall-​plugs for electronics. One of the best things about Ibis is that they offer FREE wifi in all of their hotels. They don’t have those mini shampoos or soaps but instead supply each room with two giant tubes of all purpose shampoo/​soap for environmental reasons. They only stock the rooms with 2 large towels so if you have another person traveling with you, you might want to request extra towels.
The bed was comfortable and the heater was easy to use. The window was ajar when I arrived but it didn’t open far due to a security cord keeping it from opening more than a few inches. The room is minimally decorated with a small TV, bench, and built in side tables. The lights are controlled by various switches throughout the room along with electrical outlets. The outlets have switches as well. The minimal décor reminded me of IKEA but it was a decent hotel room. The breakfast offered in the morning was AYCE with traditional English breakfast fare: eggs, hash browns, sausage, grilled ham/​bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms, and beans. There was also yogurt, fruit, juice, coffee, tea, cereal, and breakfast bars available as well. They check your room number before dining and you also have to return your key card to the desk when checking out.

Staff: Excellent
We checked in at 10 past midnight. Nice hotel on the Albert Docks in Liverpool. It is cheap but cheerful. Nice place close to where we wanted to be in Liverpool. It’s not a 5* hotel so don’t expect it. This is a CLEAN budget hotel and it works for our needs. Safe to park rental car and safe for us.

We stayed here while on vacation, an were pleasantly surprised (though we did just come from London) to stay in a proper hotel that didn’t cost an arm and a leg.
Located just down the street from the bus station and Liverpool One and just across the street from Albert Dock, you really can’t go wrong. It is so convenient to everything. The staff was great and very helpful.
Like any hotel there is late night noise of other guests, but it was worth it. Even one night I needed a snack so I ate downstairs and the «chips» (or fries for us US travelers) were the closet to home and the best I had in England.

Looking for a hotel near the Albert Docks that won’t bust your budget?
If so, come stay here. Great location, right across from the docks, nice restaurant area, and very well priced. If you’re looking for fancy smancy, try the Hilton up the street. If not, stay here, save the money for a good time with the scousers of Liverpool, and enjoy!

Not bad for the cheaper end of the market, though the room was small and a bit cramped (compared to, say, a Travelodge). However, the bedroom was clean and pleasant and the bathroom had a large shower.
It was confusing to find the hotel entrance in the dark — it’s actually at the back of a café which fronts onto the carpark. The reception staff were a mixture — one very friendly and helpful lady and one younger one who was quite frosty.
Breakfast was disappointing and we didn’t bother after the first morning there. It’s OK for a croissant and coffee (and reasonably priced) but if you have anything cooked the price soars. The tables are close together and it can get noisy and crowded. I think that this café/​bar gives a rather ‘tacky’ feel to the place, particularly later in the day and evening. On a plus side there’s internet access (with a charge of course) and draught Guinness on offer.
The hotel is in a great position however, just across the dual carriageway from the Albert Dock and many nearby and wonderful tourist attractions. You can walk to the «Ferry ‘Cross the Mersey» too, and a wealth of pubs, bars and restaurants. It’s about 10 – 15 minutes’ walk into the city centre from here.
I read too late in the small print that a free gift is provided if a guest stays overnight on a birthday. It is apparently a bottle of wine and can even be provided retrospectively (if you can produce something official showing the birthdate) but it has to be the actual bottle, not a voucher for one, which made it impossible in our case (literally) to carry along with all our other heavy stuff. So — remember to claim this gift in good time!

really small room. everything feels disposable from the curtains to the mattress. the en suite was an imported pod with a distinct caravan feel to it. the water temp was hot-​cold on off and made showering a short experience. the breakfast was skimpy with things running out including the bread for toast and milk for cereal. the hotel has a strange clientele with heavily tatoo’d workmen rocking about in the morning and drinking at night. the £9.99 package for Internet and movie deal simply did not work despite 3 visits to the room and phonecalls. they have a 15 minute guarantee to fix any problems. pets are allowed so long as it’s a dog and not a cat– cats are not pets aparently. this would have been fine for my dogs if the temperature in the room hadn’t steadily risen turning the room into a sweat box necessitating me to place my dogs in the car at 3 am for their own welfare. the hotel staff friendly. oh and you do need to pay £3 for parking. one bonus is it’s location making it easy to go for a drink and wakk home. we never tried the restaurant on account of the breakfast being so poor. unless you have a dog which thrives in a hothouse you would best be checking out somewhere else first.

I will admit that I am quite easy to please on the hotel front, but I was so pleased by the Ibis. I stayed here for only one night in the summer having got £10 off and would happilt have stayed for many more. It only costs around £58 a night normally so you wouldn’t expect it to be luxury. The room was really big with a lovely view over the docks. The bathroom was huge and sparkingly clean. It’s a five minute walk from the Albert Docks and two minutes from Paradise Street Bus station. Great restaurant too.