The Best Strip Clubs in Liverpool

The best strip club in Liverpool is Risqué on Peter Street, three minutes from Lime Street station, with private booths, champagne service and a 5 a.m. close at weekends. Angels Paradise on Princes Street and Rude on Duke Street follow. Six clubs make the list, all in the city centre.

Here they are in the order we would send someone, with the reasoning underneath.

Risqué is the most consistent night in the city. It is small and discreet, built around private booths and champagne service, and it opens six nights a week from 8 p.m., closing at 5 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. It is 18 and over only.

Angels Paradise is the stag-do club: it opens on Fridays and Saturdays from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m., has private booths, and sits down a narrow alley off Victoria Street. Rude is the full-scale night out: three floors inside a Grade II-listed 18th-century building on Duke Street, with a 40-foot marble bar, a main stage, a VIP balcony and a cigar lounge.

Erotica, close to Mathew Street, has more than 20 dancers and live pole shows through the night, and takes stag groups without a booking. Angels VIP on Old Hall Street is the sister club to Angels Paradise and the one to know midweek. Pussycats on Eberle Street lists Saturday nights only. Ranked on how much each club offers, when you can actually get in, and how its guests rate it.

Liverpool's strip clubs are a weekend scene. Angels Paradise opens only on Fridays and Saturdays, and Pussycats only on Saturdays, both until 6 a.m.

Midweek, the choice narrows to two. Angels VIP opens every night of the week, from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. Sunday to Thursday. Risqué opens from 8 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, and on Wednesdays only when there is a match.

If the vocabulary is new: a lap dance and a private dance are not always the same thing, and striptease is the stage show itself.

Two clubs, one on Wood Street and one on Mathew Street, are missing because we could not find a website of their own to confirm they are still open. We would rather leave a club off than send you to a locked door.