{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Coord|53.401|-2.971|display=title}} The '''Hope Street Hotel''' on Hope Street, Liverpool, describes itself as 'Liverpool's first boutique hotel'. On 30 and 31 March 2006 it played host to Condoleezza Rice.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4862846.stm|title= Condoleezza arrives in Liverpool|work=BBC News|access-date=2008-02-17| date=2006-03-31}}</ref> The hotel is housed in an 1860 Venetian-style palazzo,<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hotels/ukhotels/hotelsinthenorthwest/3549437/Hope-Street-Hotel-Liverpool-hotel-review.html | work=The Daily Telegraph | location=London | title=Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool: full review | date=2008-12-04 | access-date=2010-05-04}}</ref> originally home to and named 'The London Carriage Works', which is how the hotel's restaurant came to be named.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hopestreethotel.co.uk/eating.phuse |title=London Carriage Works | Liverpool Restaurant |access-date=2009-05-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506142437/http://www.hopestreethotel.co.uk/eating.phuse |archive-date=2009-05-06 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.liverpoolphil.com/hope-street-hotel|title=Hope Street Hotel - Liverpool Philharmonic|website=Royal Liverpool Philharmonic|language=en|access-date=2019-03-09}}</ref>
In 2005, Spanish midfielder Xabi Alonso chose to move into the Hope Street Hotel after his transfer to Liverpool FC.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/24-hour-room-service-hope-street-hotel-liverpool-488520.html|title=24-Hour Room Service: Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool|date=2005-01-29|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2019-03-09}}</ref> His wife, then girlfriend, Nagore Aranburu worked as a receptionist at the Hope Street Hotel as she wanted to improve her English.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pearce |first=James |date=2024-11-05 |title=Why Liverpool fell for Xabi Alonso, the ‘spray gun’ who became an adopted Scouser |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5882579/2024/11/05/liverpool-xabi-alonso-love/ |access-date=2026-05-18 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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==External links== * http://www.hopestreethotel.co.uk/ *[https://twitter.com/hopestreethotel?lang=en Official Twitter page]
Category:Hotels in Liverpool Category:Hope Street, Liverpool
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