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Two Beatles tours hold 63% of all reviews

One subject owns this list. Eleven of the 24 experiences we publish for Liverpool name the Beatles, and they stretch across almost the whole price range, from EUR 26.09 for a two-hour coach tour to EUR 499.14 for a private three-and-a-half-hour one. Attention is concentrated harder than the count suggests: the Magical Mystery Tour and the 90-minute Blue Route city and Beatles tour hold 12,860 and 10,086 reviews between them, 63 per cent of the 36,210 reviews on this page. Eight listings show a flat 5.0, but six of those rest on fewer than 130 reviews, and two products carry no rating at all.

The rest divides between leaving town and the river. Six tours go out of the city — North Wales three times, the Lake District, Chester with Port Sunlight, and Wrexham — running three and a half to nine and a half hours, and only the EUR 70.12 North Wales coach day has a real review base at 812; the other five carry 59 or fewer. Three take to the Mersey, among them the 50-minute river cruise at EUR 16.64, the cheapest item here. The median length across the 24 is three hours. The absences are as useful: no food tour, no cathedral tour, nothing entering the Walker or World Museum, and one title only that names a walk.

What to know before you book in Liverpool

The Beatles Story runs a seasonal opening calendar, so check it and reserve an early timed entry; that keeps the afternoon clear for the city museum. Our EUR 23.77 listing is that admission ticket rather than a guided tour. The two cheapest guided Beatles tours, at EUR 26.09 and EUR 26.15 for 120 and 90 minutes, cost roughly what the exhibition does.

Everything else needs your own diary. Museum of Liverpool asks you to check its visitor calendar and to leave two and a half hours before closing; World Museum's galleries and additional experiences can have different arrangements, and Walker Art Gallery's hours follow the exhibition programme. Central Library keeps a timetable independent of the museums beside it, and Bluecoat's galleries normally open Tuesday to Sunday, 11:00 to 17:00. Twenty-three of the 24 listings allow free cancellation.

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Quick answers

Which Beatles tour should I book in Liverpool?

Eleven of the 24 listings are Beatles tours, and they split by format. The two cheapest are also the two most reviewed by a wide margin: the two-hour Magical Mystery Tour at EUR 26.09 with 12,860 reviews, and the 90-minute Blue Route city and Beatles tour at EUR 26.15 with 10,086. Private taxi and car tours of three to three and a half hours run EUR 178.26 to EUR 499.14 but carry between 10 and 1,310 reviews each, so read the sample size behind a 5.0 before paying the premium. The Magical Mystery Tour is the only one of the 24 sold without free cancellation.

Do I need a tour for Liverpool's museums and cathedrals?

No tour among the 24 enters the Walker Art Gallery, World Museum, Central Library or either cathedral, so there is nothing to weigh up and you arrange those yourself. Museum of Liverpool asks you to check its visitor calendar and to allow two and a half hours before closing, World Museum's galleries and additional experiences can have different arrangements, and Walker Art Gallery's hours follow its exhibition programme. Central Library runs a timetable independent of the museums beside it, and Bluecoat's galleries normally open Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 to 17:00.

Is a day trip from Liverpool to North Wales or the Lake District worth it?

Six of the 24 leave the city: North Wales three times, the Lake District, Chester with Port Sunlight, and Wrexham. Only one has a real track record — the North Wales coach day at EUR 70.12, nine and a half hours, rated 4.8 from 812 reviews — while the other five carry 59 reviews or fewer and two have none. The Lake District day with a lake cruise and train is EUR 84.38 over nine hours with 59 reviews. Both are long days, so weigh them against a list whose median length is three hours.

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