What a fantastic setting the Albert Dock will be for a major boat show. Our members will do all they can to work once again with Liverpool City Council to make this special event a great success. We look forward to helping attract many, many visitors to the exhilarating sport of sailing.

Mary Dickinson,
Commodore Liverpool Yacht Club & Tranmere Sailing Club

The historic Albert Dock is the perfect venue for a boat show - a glorious dockside setting with superb facilities and hotels, less than five minutes' walk from the heart of Liverpool's rejuvenated city centre.

This collection of beautifully restored Nineteenth Century warehouses is now a leisure destination with some 10,000 visitors a day, making it Liverpool's and, indeed, one of the UK's most visited attractions. The distinctive five-storey terracotta-red brick buildings, which once housed trade goods from across the globe, surround a quadrangle of water the size of Trafalgar Square.

Today it is home to five genuinely world-class museums and galleries: Tate Liverpool, The Maritime Museum, the new Museum of Liverpool, the Beatles Story and the International Slavery Museum.

Albert Dock also houses a range of premium restaurants and bars such as Spice Lounge, Circo, Raven, Blue, Vinea, Ha! Ha!, and Pan- American Bar & Grill. Each opens onto the quayside colonnades which overlook the dock, creating a unique ambience and unrivalled party atmosphere.

Adjacent to the Albert Dock are the Salthouse, Wapping, Canning, Duke's and King's Docks, together creating a system which is historically unique in the world and offers the Liverpool Boat Show virtually unlimited scope for the expansion of its show marina.

Liverpool One, Liverpool's retail heart, is just five minutes' walk from the Albert Dock. It is Europe's largest and finest retail-led regeneration scheme, offering luxury brand names and outstanding restaurants and bars amidst stunning architecture.

It, combined with the city's traditional retail offer, has propelled the city into the UK's top five retail and leisure destinations, attracting 500,000 shoppers and visitors weekly.

The Docks have also been home, over the years, to the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race and the Tall Ships and in 2008 hosted one of the biggest parties in Liverpool's history - to celebrate the opening of the city's year as European Capital of Culture.