Liverpool's hotel visitor charge
In Liverpool the charge is £2 per room per night, however many people share the room. Only the larger hotels in the city's accommodation business improvement district add it.
Charged per room, not per person
Liverpool's visitor charge works like Manchester's: the city's larger hotels voted in a ballot in April 2025 to add £2 per occupied room per night to guests' bills, from 1 June 2025, to fund the Accommodation BID's marketing and events.
It is separate from the wider Liverpool City Region, whose mayor has welcomed the new powers for England's mayors to set a percentage visitor levy, which he says could raise up to £18 million a year. No such levy has been proposed yet.
Rates per room
It's the same whether one person or four share the room.
| Where you stay | Tax |
|---|---|
| Hotel or serviced accommodation in the BID area (rateable value £45,000+) | £2 per room per night |
An example stay
Hotel or serviced accommodation in the BID area (rateable value £45,000+)
- £2 per room per night1 room × 3 nights × £2
- £6
Tax on this stay£6
Who doesn’t pay
- Hotels and serviced accommodation with a rateable value under £45,000, and places outside the BID area, do not charge it.
- There is no age exemption: it is charged per room.
Who collects it
Your hotel adds it to the final bill and passes it to the Liverpool Accommodation BID, run by the Liverpool BID Company.
What we couldn’t confirm
Not everything is published officially yet, and these points we could not confirm.
- Whether VAT is added to the £2.
Try your own dates
Put in your own trip. Hosts round and apply discounts in their own way, so treat the result as a close estimate.
Planning a trip to Liverpool
Check whether a listing includes the tax or collects it on arrival. The price breakdown on the booking page tells you.
Sources and checks
All checked on 28 September 2026. Where a figure comes from news reporting rather than an official page, we say so above.
- Liverpool City Council: result of the Accommodation BID ballot on a visitor charge official
- Liverpool BID Company: Liverpool ABID charge