Booking A Guide
Let Us Be Your Guide
Liverpool and Merseyside are nothing if not diverse, and there are a range of tours and themes for you to enjoy. Take a sightseeing tour across the city with our qualified guides; see some of Liverpool's musical milestones on the Magical Mystery Tour, enjoy the Yellow Duckmarine or the City Explorer. We can recommend guides and themes for each group, and help package tours as part of your visit.
Guided Tours with Qualified Guides
From Beatles, sport and heritage to the ale trail and murder mystery tours, there are more than 40 Blue Badge, Green Badge, Black Heritage and Liverpool 08-qualified Guides available for car, coach or walking tours of both Liverpool and Merseyside. Contact one of our approved Offical Tourist Board guide booking agents below to organise tours and make arrangements on your behalf, from checking availability and booking tours to advice on pick-up points and pairing you up with one of our foreign language tour guides.
The following three agents are approved Official Tourist Board guide booking agents for the Liverpool City Region
Liverpool Tour Guide Services
Liverpool is a City with a history and a City of today. Make sure your group don't only visit Liverpool, but that they experience Liverpool with the help of a Tour Guide, who will entertain and inform in a way that will leave your party wanting to return for more.
Tel: 07964 515681 / 07918 655113
Email: ltgs@hotmail.co.uk
Pool of Life Tours
Tel: 0151 283 4349 / 07762 769 296
www.pooloflifetours.com / info@pooloflifetours.com
Contact Renee Browning or Tim Hemmings
Qualified Guides available from Official Booking Agent. We offer individual or group tours on foot, by minibus or coach (including hop-on/hop-off service). We specialise in Beatles Tours, Bi-lingual Guides and Conference Entertainment. We place special emphasis on matching the right Guide with the right tour.
Black Heritage Tour Guides
Black heritage walking tours and lecture presentations by qualified guides are available for individuals or groups in the Liverpool City Region. These tours, lasting about 1 1/2 hours, are suitable for anyone interested in more extensive information about Liverpool's role in the transatlantic slave trade, its abolition and its black heritage. Some tour guides are able to visit schools, organisations and institutions to deliver a virtual walking tour that highlights aspects of Liverpool which are relevant to these themes.
Rita Martelli and Francis Williams are qualified Liverpool 08 Guides who can offer you a detailed Slavery Remembrance Tour which highlights aspects of Liverpool's history connected to the transatlantic slave trade, its abolition and black heritage. Tours last about an hour and a half and highlight sites in the Liverpool city centre such as The Athenaeum, Liverpool Town Hall, Rumford Place (the only Confederate Embassy outside of the United States of America during the civil war), Liverpool Cotton Exchange, Liverpool Parish Church (where the Merchant Coffee House stood) and the International Slavery Museum.
For more information, please visit www.liverpoolblackheritage.com.
To book a tour or a lecture presentation from Rita and/or Francis, please ring (+44) 07779 824009 or (44) 07817 821952.
Further information about guides and guided tours available can be found by downloading the "Guided Tours leaflets" to the right of this page.
For other queries about guides please email us at guides@merseyside.org.uk
