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I Spent £16 on a Day in Liverpool and Was Shocked at What It Really Was

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I Spent £16 on a Day in Liverpool and Was Shocked at What It Really Was

I had no expectations of what the day would be like after saving hundreds of people

I drank beer mugs bigger than my head
I drank beer mugs bigger than my head(Image: Megan Bandeira)

I’ve been wanting to go to Oktoberfest for years. The idea of ​​drinking mugs of beer bigger than my head and dancing to live music is something that seems like happiness to me. Honestly, the German beer festival feels like a great tradition and I’m really upset with myself for never going to Munich to participate.

However, after the many festivals and summer holidays I’ve been on this year, flights to Germany were something my bank balance couldn’t handle and it looked like Oktoberfest was off the cards for another year.

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That was until my friend sent me an Instagram post about Oktoberfest right here in Liverpool. These £16 tickets were definitely more favorable than the £200+ I could have spent on flights to Munich.

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I can’t lie, I didn’t really know what my expectations were regarding the festival. I didn’t think it would suck, but I didn’t think it would be great either. I just didn’t see how they could transform Liverpool and make it look like Germany, but I’ll eat my hat because I was wrong.

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The event was held at the Exhibition Center at King’s Dock. Upon entering, there were rows and rows of tables and long benches, like you see in photos of the traditional German festival, filled to the brim with people drinking mugs of beer. There were also wooden cabins for those of us who splurged on VIP tickets.

The band at Oktoberfest in Liverpool
The band at Oktoberfest in Liverpool(Image: Megan Bandeira)

There was a live band on stage playing instrumental versions of all the classics while people laughed, talked and sang along. I loved it.

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First port of call was the bar, two pints of beer for £18 weren’t bad at all in my opinion, and we then found a seat situated amongst all the stag and hen parties the event seemed to attract.

For me, one of the things I liked most about that night was how many different people were there. I was talking to people who had traveled from the North East just to go to the festival on a stag weekend. Call me naive, but I simply didn’t expect the event to be as popular as it was.

We danced and laughed the night away and by the end of the night everyone was on stage doing their best ‘daddy proposing’ dance to the instrumental versions of Sweet Caroline, Don’t You Want Me and the rest of the classics we all love.

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But I haven’t gotten to the best part yet – there were evasions. There’s nothing I love more than participating in fairground rides, and dodging is probably my favorite. It’s been a while since I laughed so hard when I hit people at full speed in those dodges, it was good to be a kid again.

By this time it was almost 11pm and it was time to finish, so we finished our pints and headed home, but not without a quick visit to the food stalls. Now, there’s nothing I love more when the German markets are in town than a good Brakburst.

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Normally it’s something I have to wait until November to enjoy when the Christmas markets start, but oh no, I was lucky, they had Brakburst and waffle stalls. Eating a giant sausage covered in ketchup, mustard and crispy onions stuffed in a hot dog bun was exactly how I wanted to end the night.

Honestly I can’t recommend Oktoberfest Liverpool enough, I was really shocked at how good it was. Who needs Munich when you can enjoy the German beer festival right here in Liverpool. It might have been the beer talking, but for a few hours I thought I was in Germany. See you there next year.

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