Lancashire to Wood Street
What INK's archived VIP table page actually offered
INK's archived VIP page described your own table or a private booth, and the packages on that page started from £250. Bottles came with three servings of house mixers. You reserved with a deposit and paid the balance on arrival, and the venue asked to be told if the night was a special occasion. Those lines are the club's own old text, mostly from pages dated around 2017. Read them before anyone collects money for a table.
They matter to a group travelling in from Lancashire because a table is often the difference between a night that stays together and a night that dissolves between Lime Street and a busy room on Wood Street. Preston, Southport, Ormskirk and the other county bases all deliver people at slightly different times. A named table is a meeting point.
What the old page cannot do is set tonight's bill. If you want a table, use the page to understand the kind of booking the club used to describe, then ask what it offers now. The address of the room is unchanged in the practical sense: INK Bar, 78-82 Wood Street, Liverpool L1 4DQ.
Your own table, or a private booth
The archived page offered two ways of putting a group in one place: your own table, or a private booth. Both are a reserved point in the room, which is what a travelling party usually needs. People who have come from a hotel in Preston, Lytham St Annes or Lancaster do not want to spend the first hour finding each other between the bar and the door.
The page sat under the club's tables and VIP material, alongside a room that described itself as an RnB and house nightclub with cocktails, stylish surroundings and luxury table service. The tagline "Why waste your weekend" framed the night as a weekend plan. It did not, on that page, turn a table into a different dress code or a different building.
Read the archived VIP page for the original wording, and read the homepage if you want the short public description of the club around it. A booth and a table are the small end of what the old site described. Once the group reaches about 20 people, the archived private-hire page becomes the more relevant text, with the Terrace and the Parlour as named spaces.
The £250 line, and what came with a bottle
Table packages on the archived VIP page started from £250. That is the figure the page printed. It is archive text from the venue's own old pages. Confirm any current package with the club before you collect money from the group or promise a spend. A number kept alive in an old template is a poor basis for a weekend budget.
With the bottles, the same page said you received three servings of house mixers. House mixers are the venue's mixers, and the page did not publish a cocktail menu or a list of spirit brands beside that line. If the group cares which spirit, ask in the same message as the booking. Guessing from a supermarket bottle will not match a nightclub pour.
Three servings is a finite amount. A long night and a large group can finish mixers well before people are ready to leave, and the old page did not describe unlimited top-ups. Ask how mixers work now if that will change the number of bottles you order. The Mile High page described a different bottle service, with a minimum of six bottles, so a big spirits order may belong there rather than on a standard table package.
Deposit, arrival, and a special occasion
The archived page told guests to reserve with a deposit and pay the balance on arrival. That split is the practical part for a group still in a Lancashire hotel on the morning of the trip. Someone has to be willing to put the deposit down, and someone has to be at the door with a way to pay the rest. Decide those two roles before you travel, and make sure both people know they have been given the job.
The page also asked you to say if the night was a special occasion. A birthday, a leaving do or a trip in from the county is worth one plain sentence in the enquiry. The old text did not promise a particular extra because you said so. It asked to be told. Staff can only use what they have been given.
Send that note to info@inkbarliverpool.co.uk or by phone or WhatsApp on +44 7808 834584. Include the date, the headcount and the name the booking should be held in. If people are arriving on different trains into Lime Street, say so. A table held for a name nobody can remember at the door is a weak booking.
What that page actually listed
The table below is a reading of the archived VIP page, kept to the lines the venue itself printed. It is a way to brief a group without turning old copy into a price list. Where a cell sounds like money, treat it as archive wording and ask the club for the current version before you pay.
| What the page covered | What the archived VIP page said |
|---|---|
| The space | Your own table, or a private booth |
| Packages | Started from £250 |
| With a bottle | Three servings of house mixers |
| How to reserve | A deposit, then the balance on arrival |
| The occasion | Tell the venue if the night is special |
Use the private hire page when the group is large enough that a single table looks cramped, and the tickets page for how entry itself was framed in the archive. Neither page updates the £250 line into a current tariff. Only the venue can do that, in reply to a question about your date.
If you are comparing options in a group chat, paste the archive lines with the word archive next to them. People skim. A figure without that label gets repeated as if it were on the door tonight, and the person who sent it ends up explaining a price they were never authorised to quote.
How a travelling group should use the old page
Read the page once, as a description of a kind of night: a reserved table, bottles, mixers, a deposit, the balance when you arrive. Then write to the venue and ask which of those parts still exist, and at what cost, for your date and your numbers. Keep the reply. A screenshot of a 2017 layout is not a confirmation.
Match the booking to the way you are travelling. A party of eight off the Preston train is a table conversation. A party of thirty that wants its own bar is a hire conversation, and the Terrace was the space the old private-hire page suited to 20 to 50 people. Sending both requests without saying which you prefer creates two half-bookings.
Dress still applies. The archived standard was smart and stylish, clean and classy, with daywear, casual clothes, sportswear, caps and snapbacks ruled out. Security has the final say, and management may refuse admission. A confirmed table is a place in the room for people who are admitted. It is worth saying that out loud to anyone who plans to travel in trainers and change their mind at the door.
Frequently asked questions
Did the VIP page really start packages at £250?
The venue's archived VIP page did describe table packages starting from £250. That figure is old page text. Ask the club what a table costs now before you collect money from the group.
What was included with a bottle?
The same archived page said bottles came with three servings of house mixers. It did not set out a brand list or a cocktail menu in that line. If the spirit matters to you, ask the venue in the booking message.
How did the deposit work?
The page said you reserve with a deposit and pay the balance on arrival. Decide who pays each part before you leave Lancashire. Include the booking name, the date and the headcount when you write to the club.
Is a booth the same as hiring a room?
A table or booth was the VIP page's offer. Private hire, from 20 people up to the whole venue, sat on a different archived page, with the Terrace and the Parlour named there. Use the headcount to choose which enquiry to send.