Palace Hotel, Manchester > Reviews

Advantages: Sumptous, elegant, grand, slick, great location.
Disadvantages: expensive, no additional facilities e.g. swimming pool, gym etc.

...spent a night at the Palace Hotel in Manchester, on business. It is a rather grand, distinctively impressive Victorian building right in the heart of the city, that was originally built as insurance offices, apparently, and still does slightly have the feeling as you arrive in the door of being a rather commercial venue. I actually walked past the entrance the first time, assuming that what I could see was a shopping mall or something - the entrance ... Read review

Advantages: Central location, nice breakfasts
Disadvantages: Expensive rack rate

...why I stayed at the Palace Hotel in the city. I wondered too. But, I was at a national event organised by a national office, and in their national wisdom, they booked all of us in as resident conference delegates, even those of us who live within, um, walking distance. I do like my own place, my own kitchen, my own bed, but not in an obsessive way, so when someone else wants to pay for me to stay in a nice room where I don’t have to make the bed or ... Read review