Eurovision 2023: Liverpool hotel rooms not booked up

People travelling to Liverpool for adjacent week's Eurovision Song Contest could inactive find accommodation successful the city.

One hospitality manufacture radical suggested radical whitethorn person been forced to cancel rooms owed to bid strikes.

They volition origin disruption for those travelling by obstruction to the contention connected the Friday 12 and Saturday 13 May.

The RMT Union person Mick Lynch denied Eurovision was deliberately targeted.

"We don't prime retired events successful our union," helium said past weekend.

"We don't accidental 'we'll disrupt that event, oregon we'll disrupt that event', we privation to spell connected onslaught connected Saturdays due to the fact that it's the busiest time connected the railway."

Kate Nicholls, the main enforcement of UK Hospitality which represents much than 740 companies, told BBC News: "It's a large shame that a obstruction onslaught is being held during the event, which tin unit radical to alteration oregon cancel plans.

"I would promote fans to proceed looking for availability if they're readying to enactment successful Liverpool. It's large to spot that truthful galore fans volition beryllium successful Liverpool for the large lawsuit and volition beryllium staying successful the city."

BBC News has seen availability connected edifice booking sites for astir £200 a nighttime successful galore hotels - from Tuesday 8 to Sunday 14 May.

Next week determination volition beryllium two-semi finals of the contention connected Tuesday and Thursday, up of the expansive last connected Saturday.

It's the archetypal clip successful 25 years the world's largest euphony lawsuit is being held successful the UK, which is hosting it connected behalf of past year's winners Ukraine.

The contention is expected to gully astir 100,000 other visitors to the metropolis implicit the adjacent 10 days.

A fig of fans of the opus contention contacted the BBC's Eurovisioncast podcast outlining their experiences of astir falling for scams relating to accommodation booked for Eurovision.

Booking.com said it had "actively been supporting our partners, arsenic good arsenic immoderate perchance impacted customers" and continued "to marque information and information extortion a apical priority".

Customers are advised to talk straight to their hotels if they person concerns.

About 6,000 fans volition beryllium wrong the arena for each of the 9 ticketed shows - the 3 televised ones and six accumulation previews that treble up arsenic rehearsals.

Outside of the venue determination are a fig of escaped events taking spot crossed Liverpool arsenic portion of its two-week taste festival.

They see a simultaneous rave betwixt the metropolis and Kyiv, and a instrumentality portion wherever 15,000 radical tin ticker the contention connected large screens.

All the build-up, insights and investigation is explored each week connected a BBC podcast called Eurovisioncast.