Budget hotel operator Travelodge is currently offering rooms at just £9 per night.
The offer is available on this special page on their website and is valid for bookings made now for stays between February and April 2009.
Rooms for other dates are also available from £19 and £29 provided bookings are made 7 and 21 days ahead respectively.
Wirral Council is holding a number of firework displays on Bonfire Night, Wednesday November 5 2008.
The venues for the displays are:
Birkenhead Park, Birkenhead
Central Park, Wallasey
Lingham Park, Moreton
Mayer Park, Bebington
Upton Park, Moreton
Mersey Park, Tranmere
Woodchurch Community Centre, Woodchurch
Leasowe Adventure Playground, Leasowe
All the displays start at 6.30 pm and are free. Leasowe will also host a community bonfire.
Spaceport in Birkenhead plays host to a host of Dr Who characters this weekend. Visitors to the space-themed attraction will be greeted by Daleks and other stars of the series. John Leeson, the voice of K9, will also make a personal appearance.
Travelodge has announced that it will open 22 hotels across the country between now and Christmas. New hotels in the North West will include the Travelodge Blackpool Tower and the Travelodge Blackpool Tower. Both are opening late December.
The budget hotel group is currently offering thousands of rooms at only £19 for stays in December and January. They can be booked via this special page on their website.
Tourism businesses in the North West were honoured at the Northwest Tourism Awards last week. The event was held at St George’s Hall in Liverpool on October 22 and was hosted by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. Winners and finalists included:
Large Hotel of the Year
Marriott Worsley Park Hotel and Country Club, Manchester (Winner)
Cottons Hotel and Spa, Knutsford
Macdonald Old England Hotel and Spa, Bowness
Big Blue Hotel, Blackpool
Marriott Liverpool City Centre Hotel
Small Hotel of the Year
White House Manor, near Macclesfield (Winner)
Appleby Manor, Appleby
The Shireburn Arms Hotel, Clitheroe
Bed and Breakfast of the Year
Augill Castle, Kirkby Stephen (Winner)
Number One, South Beach, Blackpool (Highly Commended)
Moss Lodge, Rochdale
42 Caldy Road, West Kirby
Sand Hollow Farm, Burwardsley
Large Visitor Attraction of the Year
Manchester Art Gallery (Winner)
Ness Botanic Gardens, Neston
South Lakes Wild Animal Park, Dalton in Furness
Sandcastle Waterpark, Blackpool
Small Visitor Attraction of the Year
The Quaker Tapestry Exhibition, Kendal (Winner)
Cotebrook Shire Horse Centre, Cotebrook
Farmer Ted’s Farm Park, Ormskirk
Smithills Hall, Bolton
Mersey Ferries Manchester Ship Canal Cruises
Self Catering Holiday of the Year
The Beach House, Blackpool (Winner)
Staying Cool, Manchester (Highly Commended)
Premier Apartments, Liverpool
Mellow Brook Cottage at Harrop Fold Farm, Macclesfield
The Lodge Holiday Cottage, Hayton
Holiday Park of the Year
Park Cliffe Camping and Caravan Park, Windermere (Winner)
Newton Hall Holiday Park, Blackpool
Manor Wood Country Caravan Park, Coddington
Excellence in Business Tourism
The Rheged Centre, Penrith (Winner)
Park Royal Hotel, Warrington (Highly Commended)
Barton Grange Hotel, Preston
Manchester United
The Conference Centre at LACE, Liverpool
Taste of England’s Northwest
Roses Tea Room, Heswall (Winner)
The Hollies Farm Shop, Cheshire (Highly Commended)
The Village Bakery Melmerby
Northcote Manor, Langho
Isinglass Restaurant, Urmston
Tourism Experience of the Year
Manchester International Festival (Winner)
Tate Liverpool - Turner Prize (Highly Commended)
Shacklabank Free Range Walking, Sedbergh (Highly Commended)
Byways Breaks, Cheshire
Downy Duckling Experience, WWT Martin Mere
Lancashire Food Festival, Accrington
Cholmondeley Fireworks Concert and Garden Party
Excellence in Customer Service
Gary Henshall - Sandcastle Waterpark, Blackpool (Winner)
Julie Lyons – De Vere Carden Park Hotel, Chester
Daniel Fairweather, Windermere Marina Village
Pam Simpson – World of Glass, St Helens
Madge Butler - Crowne Plaza Manchester Airport
Sustainable Tourism Award
Palace Hotel, Manchester (Winner)
Cote How Organic Guest House, Rydal (Highly Commended)
RSPB Leighton Moss Nature Reserve, Silverdale
Carden Park Hotel, Chester
Tourism for All Award
The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven (Winner)
The Trafford Centre, Manchester (Highly Commended)
Wyre Estuary Country Park
The National Wildflower Centre, Knowsley
Tourist Information Centre of the Year
Congleton TIC (Winner)
Fleetwood TIC (Highly Commended)
Manchester Visitor Centre
St.Helens TIC
Keswick TIC
The International Guitar Festival of Great Britain returns to Birkenhead next month for the 20th year running. The event kicks off on November 4 at the Pacific Road Arts Centre with a performance by Eddi Reader, formerly of Fairground Attraction, and runs until November 28.
Venues include the Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead Town Hall, Birkenhead Priory, the Pacific Road Arts Centre, and the Floral Pavilion Theatre in New Brighton.
For a full programme and ticket details visit the official website.
Spaceport at Birkenhead has recorded record visitor numbers for the first 9 months of 2008. The space-themed attraction at Seacombe Ferry Terminal has seen visitor number rocket from 47,500 in 2007 to 87,500 this year.
A plan to ban dogs from Wirral beaches was overturned by Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council’s Tourism Committee last night.
Under the proposed scheme dogs would have been banned from beaches during the summer months. The proposal was deemed to be too expensive and difficult to enforce. It was decided that extra bins would be provided at entrances to beaches and additional notices erected warning owners of the penalties for not clearing up after their dogs.
A display of vintage vehicles at Birkenhead Park this weekend is expected to attract more than 10,000 visitors.
Organised by the Lions Club and the Wirral Transport Museum, Transport Through The Ages will feature around 80 classic cars and commercial vehicles plus four steam boats.
There will also be steam driven fairground rides, street entertainers, and displays.
The event takes place at Birkenhead Park on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 September 2008.