THE SHANKLY HOTEL 2015/2020

My holiday planner and I, visited The Shankly in Liverpool a few years ago (December 2015) to celebrate Mrs B's birthday. In those days you could take a train across the Pennines to Manchester, then change to another and go to Liverpool centre and walk to The Shankly Hotel. Not a mask in sight. You tell that to our teenagers today and they won't believe you!

What a joy for Mrs B; train journeys, a lovely dinner, the Christmas pantomime at the famous Empire, (Dick Whittington) and a night's stay with me, in a hotel themed on Bill Shankly, the very famous long serving Liverpool FC Manager. Imagine waking up in the morning being looked down upon by Bill and his sidekicks, dressed in match trackies. The stay was fun if slightly eccentric; the hotel was covered in Shankly and Liverpool memorabilia; but what better way to celebrate the grand man (Shankly not me). It was a great experience. Funnily enough I was 64! ("When I get older, losing my hair.......)

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Last night, the TV pages alerted us to a documentary featuring "The Grand Party Hotel". It is still called "The Shankly" and Bill Shankly would be turning in his grave if he knew what was going on under his name. 

Here is the link....you must watch some of it! (or ALL) or use "Catch Up".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000mv5f/the-grand-party-hotel-series-1-episode-1 

This is just one of the multi-occupancy select rooms. The evidence of celebration, left in and around the room and jacuzzi, the following morning, would be equivalent to a football changing room after a brilliant victory on a Saturday afternoon!

By the way, my visit happened on the same week that saw the "sacking" of Jose Mourinho, from Chelsea.