By Stuart Forster
Liverpool City Sights, which operates open-top bus tours on Merseyside, and BusyBus, currently providing sightseeing excursion in northwest England and north Wales.The business have revealed a merger that will see the continued presence of both brands.Plans are afoot to introduce excursion from Liverpool to Chester.
Chester well-known Victorian clock.The trips will include Port Sunlight. The design commercial village founded in 1888, highlights of Cheshire’s historical county town and after that conclude with drinks on the Daffodil at Canning Dock.” We feel that BusyBus has actually got the following, can scale up and do tours daily. Teaming together means more resources and a bigger swimming pool of talent. The merger is to pool resources so we can then complete and scale this nationally,” says Philip Olivier. Founder and CEO of Liverpool City Sights.Tour Bus Merger Can Scale Up Providers Philip quips that the factor he took over a tour business 12 years earlier was:”to try and conserve myself from living out of a suitcase around theatres.”< img src ="https://www.thetraveltrunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ART-MUSEUM-300x200.jpg"
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Interior of the Museum of Liverpool.He had previously played the character of Timothy ‘Tinhead’ O’Leary in the television soap Brookside.In 2022, TripAdvisor’s Travellers’Choice awards noted Liverpool City Sights among the leading 10 global tourist attractions worldwide.
Cavern Club Liverpool.
Merger of Busy Bus and Liverpool City Sights.The business’s guides were trained to tell stories and entertain. “The guides are playing instruments to you, they inform jokes. They don’t just educate you,” explains Philip.Busy Bus Small But Intimate Transport
He continues: “BusyBus, which was founded by my good friend Peter Rosenfeld. He has exactly the same values and does excursion which go out to north Wales, Chester, the Lakes and the likes.BusyBus has actually done very well with cruise ships and continuously packs out cars. Its 16-seat vehicles offer intimacy throughout sightseeing excursion and will be used to operate expeditions between both Liverpool and Chester.< img src="https://www.thetraveltrunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/BUSY-BUS--300x190.jpg"alt=""width="797"height="505"/ > Hectic Bus clients using the Tree Top Adventure centre at Betws y Coed, North Wales. Peter Rosenfeld standing far right.Meanwhile, on Merseyside, Liverpool City Sights offers a hop-on, hop-off sightseeing tour. These enables visitors to orientate and a premium, 90-minute City and Beatles Trip.”We use the story of The Beatles to get us out to the more rural parts of Liverpool.
The whole reason I shaped that trip ten years back was essentially to eliminate old preconceptions of Liverpool and to show that it has actually got some majestic areas also … individuals could not think how great Liverpool was,”discusses Philip. Growing For Tour Bus Merger Tourist in the area is growing. Philip identifies Liverpool’s cruise terminal and longer
staycations of four to 5 days as key aspects:
“The whole way that Liverpool is developed is based on tourism. I feel we are like an attraction city, and I believe it’s a best place to do this day-to-day tour to Chester due to the fact that Chester is so close to Liverpool. It’s an excellent size to see the highlights and then return to your hub.” Boot Inn Chester. Merger of Busy Bus and Liverpool City Sights.”Individuals used to go to locations and basically check off lists, whereas now people desire something more
meaningful … They’re wanting to value more of those experiences,”he adds, discussing that often involves exploring the surrounding area. Museum of Liverpool.Philip has actually likewise obtained the MV Royal Daffodil,
among the old Mersey ferries. He had it transformed into a floating hospitality location moored at Liverpool’s Canning Dock.”We have actually been there given that December. It has a bar upstairs, a fine-dining dining establishment on the main deck and a multi-function event area downstairs for weddings and corporate occasions, “he outlines.Liverpool City Sights Synergy Peter Rosenfeld established BusyBus 23 years back and is approaching
retirement.”What was necessary to me was the legacy of BusyBus. My dream was to see BusyBus in every tourism city of the UK,”he states. Liver building in Liverpool.” It was very clear that this boy had the same vision as I had twenty years ago: It was just obvious and the writing was on the wall that this was the future. I had other chances with BusyBus but none came close to the opportunity that Liverpool City Sights and Philip Olivier has provided me. The choice was based purely on synergy of people.”The trips from Liverpool to Chester are readily available from 1 August 2025. More information Liverpool City Sights operates a Hop-On, Hop-Off City Trip and a City and Beatles Tour.The Visit Liverpool site
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a summary of things to do and see while remaining on Merseyside The Daffodil is surrounding to Strand Street at Canning Dock in Liverpool.BusyBus’s portfolio of trips includes sightseeing excursion, coast excursions and mini-breaks. Head to the Check out Cheshire website for information about the attractions of Chester and somewhere else in the county.The village
of Port Sunlight is located in between Liverpool and Chester. It has more than 900 Grade II listed structures and
has been used as a recording area for tv serises Peaky Blinders.