EUROVISION fans have been left outraged as hotel prices have soared in Liverpool within hours of its announcement as host city for the 2023 competition.
Music mads fans face prices in the thousands to stay across the five nights of the famous competition, with some hotels charging upwards of £1400 per night.
Ukraine won last year’s Eurovision but are unable to host in 2023 due to the war with Russia
Hotel prices shot up in Liverpool within hours of the announcement
Liverpool was announced tonight as the setting for next year’s contest, beating out Glasgow for the honour of hosting the musical spectacular.
Twitter was ablaze with commenters complaining about the steep increases in prices not long after the announcement was made.
One wrote: “Wow, a few hours into the Eurovision 2023 news and hotels & AirBnBs in Liverpool are either booked or £1000s per nigh. Damn.”
A Liverpool local joked: “Right lads so since there’s no chance we’re getting to Liverpool on the weekend its on cause no hotels, who wants to come to my flat/house for a banger Eurovision party next year?”
One unfortunate mega-fan will be doubly out of pocket, as they wrote: “Punted on the right city to book a hotel for but the wrong date. See you two weekends on the bounce then Liverpool.”
Posting a screenshot of a price comparison site, one user even saw a price of £51,031 for a five-night stay, though it has not been verified where this was.
Eurovision is traditionally held in the home country of the previous year’s winners.
However after Ukraine won the 2022 edition, it was decided that the ongoing war with Putin’s Russia would prevent them from hosting the upcoming event.
Instead the UK, whose entrant Sam Ryder came second to the Ukrainians, would host in their place.
Birmingham, Leeds and Newcastle were among the other cities shortlisted as potential hosts alongside Liverpool and Glasgow.
This list also included Sheffield and Manchester.
However, this was narrowed down to the final two last month, before the official announcement of Liverpool’s victory was made this evening.
The city has been a Unesco City of Music since 2015, and was the home of The Beatles.
When it was added to the shortlist, Mayor Joanne Anderson said: “Culture is synonymous with Liverpool and we tick all the boxes to be next year’s host.”
Sam Ryder came second last year, making the UK the obvious replacement in place of Ukraine
Liverpool beat out cities like Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham in its bid to host the 2023 competition.
