Mandatory handling has been in at Liverpool for a year or more. This is one handling agent who will give some value for the fee.Courtesy bus to main terminal or the old terminal Art deco listed now a Marriott Hotel, nice lounge free tea etc.
Standard vfr routings are as described and are relatively easy to spot visually, atc are helpfull and friendly for a busy reagional airport. Expect a standard sqwark 0260 on entering the zone.Listen to the atis a good way out that will tell you which runway in use and thus which entry point to aim for 09=Chester,
27=Whitegate.
Circuits are variable and some times simultaneously left and right but as you are in controlled airspace its not a worry.
Comming from the South you will usually join left base 27 and right base 09.
Land on the numbers 27 and long for 09 as the GA terminal is at the 27, end saves a long taxi.
Lock up yer hub caps or the scousers 'll nick em, if a group of snotty nosed kids come up and say "watch yer plane mister "always pay the bigest!