Area..and staying home couldn't be better
Enjoy a glass of wine on the balcony watching commercial vessels and grand ocean liners float by en-route to the Port of Liverpool and the city's new cruise liner terminal.
Or just outside your front door, you can wander among Antony Gormley's art installation Another Place, an iconic work is made up of 100 iron men gazing out to sea along a three kilometre stretch of Crosby beach.
And if Victorian splendour is your thing the classic resort of Southport, with its canopied walkways and traditional arcades, is just 13 miles away.
