{"id":841747,"date":"2026-03-22T00:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/841747\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T00:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:43:23","slug":"merseyside-seaside-town-ready-to-welcome-summer-visitors-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/841747\/","title":{"rendered":"Merseyside seaside town ready to welcome summer visitors once again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The area around Crosby marine lake comes to life in the summer months\"The<\/p>\n

The Lake House in the summer months(Image: Propel PR)<\/p>\n

Summer days are set to return to Crosby as two beachside businesses confirm their plans. The Bus Yard and The Lake House, both located on the shoreline near to Crosby<\/a> Marine Lake, are preparing for their busiest months.<\/p>\n

Complete with a cornered-off seating area with beach huts, The Bus Yard has become a popular spot in the warmer months for people to stop for a drink or or bite to eat, while taking in the incredible views of Crosby’s coastline. The pop-up venue is set to return on Friday, March 27 after closing for winter in September.<\/p>\n

Despite being open all year round, The Lake House is also preparing for the summer season. The venue will soon switch its Sunday roasts to a spring\/summer offering after Easter weekend, while last night (March 20) brought the return of its Sunset Sessions.<\/p>\n

From 6pm until 9pm on Fridays, the venue hosts a different DJ every week with “cool Balearic” music and a “chilled” vibe. The Lake House is also looking ahead to its own event calendar, aswell as events at Crosby Marina including the British Jetsport Championships in May.<\/p>\n

The Lake House’s Business development manager Natalie Nixon told the ECHO<\/a>: “The heights of summer, there’s a lot of people down here with The Bus Yard being here. Lots of people say to us, ‘it’s like the Costa Del Crosby,’ you know when it’s hot?<\/p>\n

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The Lake House Waterloo. Photo by Colin Lane<\/p>\n

“It’s more of a day out now with The Bus Yard, people might come here first and then walk over there or vice versa. There’s a little bit more in the area that’s happening. But height of summer, every single table’s taken, every single space on the decking is taken. We’re full inside as well.<\/p>\n

“We’re all summer vibes, we all know what we’re like in those busy times, people drinking cocktails, aperols, it’s a really nice area to come and enjoy an afternoon or a late evening.”<\/p>\n

Over the way, The Bus Yard will soon be back for summer 2026 as final preparations . Owner of The Bus Yard, Andy Laird, told the ECHO: “I think year on year we just get better at it.<\/p>\n

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People enjoying the hot weather at the Bus Yard in 2025<\/p>\n

“I’ve seen a local councillor did a post, but seeing that they put a post saying ‘it’s the modern day spring\/summer when you see The Bus Yard advertising they’re coming back’, which is nice to hear.<\/p>\n

“It’s great to be honest with you. We’re looking forward to sort of getting back into the swing of things.”<\/p>\n

Visitors of The Bus Yard can expect a new pergola, as well as some new additions to its food menus. Andy added: “It’s become like a bit of a destination place because people travel.<\/p>\n

“We’ve had stuff come out in other newspapers in Manchester and further afield because people do travel to come to the coastline.<\/p>\n

“We embrace it to be honest. It feels like there’s a good little buzz around the area.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The area around Crosby marine lake comes to life in the summer months The Lake House in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,5765,393,4884,179,16,15,14145],"class_list":["post-841747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liverpool","tag-britain","tag-crosby","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-liverpool","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-waterloo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116270059248587039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}