'I stayed in the hotel like a 'French chateau' that makes leaving Manchester easy'

Even if you regularly step out to enjoy the attractions Manchester has to offer, sometimes it's great to get away from the familiar and experience a different city.

One such place we have right on our doorstep is Liverpool. And with the newly refurbished Radisson Red hotel located right next to Liverpool's Lime Street Station, you can be checking into a truly stunning hotel after hopping off an effortless journey straight from central Manchester.

With trains to Liverpool Lime Street leaving from Manchester Piccadilly approximately every 30 minutes and taking about an hour - and then a minute walk after leaving the station to the hotel's reception - travelling couldn't be easier. Located right in Liverpool city centre's cultural quarter, the Radisson is also mere walking distance from the magnificent World Museum and Walker Art Gallery. The hotel overlooks another of Liverpool's architectural gems, St George's Hall.

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Even surrounded by all this Victorian neoclassical decadence, the beauty of Radisson Red's hotel building threatens to outshine them all. Built in 1871, the building opened as a North Western Hotel to serve weary travellers arriving in Liverpool.

Alfred Waterhouse, the hotel's architect, is one of the Victorian era's most revered architects who also designed Manchester Town Hall. Built in the Renaissance Revival style the building resembles a French château.

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The Grade II listed hotel closed in the 1930s and lay idle for 60 years before it was transformed into student accommodation in the 1990s. The building was