Car Rental - Liverpool
Hop in a car rental and enjoy a buzzing center of culture in the north-west of England, Liverpool combines a fascinating past with a thrillingly modern – and humor-filled – approach to life.
Set on the banks of the River Mersey, the city played a key role in global trade around the turn of the 20th century with its docks helping to transport goods around the world, as well as taking those looking to start a new life to the US and beyond.
We have several rental car pick-up points across Liverpool so renting a car with Hertz couldn’t be easier. Reserve your perfect vehicle online and we’ll get you on your way as soon as possible.
There are no hidden extras to pay, and we won’t charge you if for some reason you need to change or cancel your car rental reservation up to two days before collection from one of our Liverpool locations.
Liverpool Locations
A Quick Guide to Liverpool
As you’d expect from a city that was once named the European Capital of Culture, Liverpool offers a vast array of attractions, from the historic to the hip. Due to its relatively small size, it’s easy to pack plenty into even the briefest of trips.
Check out the Mersey and the Beatles
The obvious place to start in Liverpool is by the water. Drive towards the Pier Head area, overlooking the River Mersey, and find yourself a parking spot for your Hertz rental car. From here you can wander the length of the waterfront, taking in a host of sights and attractions.
To the south, the Albert Dock has been stylishly reinvented as a cultural hotspot, with cafes, restaurants and the world-renowned art gallery Tate Liverpool. The nearby Maritime Museum is also worth a visit, as is The Beatles Experience, an essential collection of original memorabilia celebrating the city’s most famous sons.
It’s just one of a number of Beatles-related spots around the city – including The Cavern Club on Matthew Street where they first hit the stage to John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s childhood homes on Menlove Avenue and Forthlin Road respectively.
Further up the river, you’ll come across ‘The Three Graces’, a trio of magnificent stone buildings overlooking the water. The Liver Building is the most famous of these, although the Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building are no less compelling.
Holy Spirit
Liverpool has two impressive cathedrals at its heart, dual landmarks punctuating the city’s fabled skyline. Park up your rental car and enjoy the imposing Anglican cathedral, constructed between 1904 and 1978, is the largest religious building in Britain, and its bell tower is one of the tallest in the world.
Half a mile to the north is the Metropolitan Cathedral, a Roman Catholic place of worship. In contrast to its Anglican counterpart, this has a strikingly modern design, topped with an instantly recognisable crown shape.
The two buildings are linked by Hope Street, a charming Georgian boulevard home to some of Liverpool’s finest restaurants. Once voted the best street in the UK, Hope Street also hosts the Everyman Theater, an award-winning architectural triumph that offers a great range of shows from musicals and comedies to hard-hitting dramas.
The Great Outdoors
Another legacy of Liverpool’s maritime pedigree is its collection of Victorian parks, built by merchants whose wealth flowed through the city’s docks. Park your rental car and enjoy Liverpool’s scenic outdoors.
Drive five minutes south of the centre and you’ll reach Sefton Park, a glorious 235-acre expanse of greenery featuring a lake and a bandstand said to be the inspiration behind The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
In the center of the park you’ll find the Palm House, a three-tier domed conservatory featuring a stunning array of plants and flowers. On the western edge of Sefton Park is Lark Lane, a bohemian enclave brimming with quirky cafes, bars and second-hand shops.
If this has whetted your appetite for the outdoors, you can take the A565 north of the city, up the coast as the River Mersey opens out into the North Sea.
You’ll reach Crosby, with its unspoilt beach that features sculptor Antony Gormley’s artwork Another Place – 100 cast-iron human forms that stretch along the shoreline and stare ponderingly out to sea.
Nearby Formby, meanwhile, has a sandy beach and a large red squirrel sanctuary among its dunes and woodland. With all this and more within reach in a rental car, there’s plenty of opportunity to get out and explore the best that Liverpool and the rest of the UK’s north-west has to offer.
Driving In and Around Liverpool
Many international visitors arrive in Liverpool at John Lennon Airport, named after the late Beatles superstar and located in Speke, eight miles outside the city center. We have a Hertz pick-up desk at the airport and from here it’s a simple 20-minute drive north along the A561 into the heart of this buzzing city.
Once you’re in central Liverpool, you can follow the Strand Road along the city’s famous waterfront with your holiday or business car rental, taking in its iconic Royal Liver Building and Albert Dock attractions.
Keep heading north and the A5053 route leads towards the homes of two internationally renowned football clubs. Liverpool FC play at Anfield stadium, while city neighbours Everton are based at the nearby Goodison Park.
The A5038 takes you into the cultural quarter, boasting an impressive collection of museums and galleries, while Smithdown Road and Parliament Street are key routes that bisect the south of the city.
Meanwhile, Edge Lane is a vital arterial route, linking Liverpool to the M62 freeway (known as motorways in the UK and prefixed with the letter ‘M’). This starts on the outskirts of the city, and continues east for more than 100 miles across the north of England, taking in major cities such as Manchester and Leeds along the way. Renting a car makes it easier to travel to other cities near Liverpool.
Liverpool is a fairly compact city, and while main roads may become busy during rush hour, it’s usually pretty straightforward to navigate with your rental car.
Speed limits are clearly signposted and vary from 30mph or lower in residential areas right up to 70mph on freeways and two-lane divided highways.
As in the rest of the UK, you’ll drive on the left-hand side of the road. Also take note that it’s illegal to turn right at a red light.
