I have had the pleasure of staying here on business on several occasions. My mother?s family come from Manchester so I always really enjoy visiting Manchester.
About the hotel:
The Arora Manchester is a four star hotel with over 140 bedrooms. It?s part owned by Cliff Richard and there are even five special Cliff bedrooms decorated with his memorabilia if you like that kind of thing! The location on Princess Street is also excellent as you are in the city centre and only 10 minutes walk from Piccadilly station if you arrive by train. It?s also about a 20-minute journey from the airport, which is also very convenient. The hotel doesn?t have it?s own car park but apparently guests can use the nearby NCP to park at a discounted rate.
First Impressions:
It?s an old fashioned looking building but it also looks quite grand. It is also ...
Advantages: reasonable price if booked in advance Disadvantages: none really
As with my previous recent reviews this forms a part of my need to get a life ethos, and even though I live a short distance from Manchester on a planned night out on the town I decided it was better worth my time staying over than drunkely seeking the nightbus home. So armed with my trusty cashback paying link to a hotelbooking site I found this one for the night.
I paid £50 for a doubleroom with no food included, the hotels standard rate is around £66 so a considerable saving especially given I only booked a few days before I wanted to stay.
The hotel itself is seconds from Picadilly Gardens which is the location of a large bus station and a tram stop which runs between the two main train stations, it is also a few minutes walk from the main Bus Station in the city where the National Express coaches stop.
The hotel has ...
I love charity shops, and it was in a charity shop that I found a small, rather battered, clearly quite old and tatty book, the edges coated in gold. I opened it up, curious, as the cover gave no indication of the contents, to see a colourful watercolour illustration of two girls sitting by a stream, and the words 'Goblin Market'.
This book is a selection of poems by Christina Rossett (1830-1894)i. I'm a poetry fan anyway, and had had a little bit of experience with one poem of particular of Rossettis in my youth as a church choirgirl - 'In the bleak midwinter' , a wonderful christmas carol, has lyrics written by her.
Keen to read a little more of her poetry, I curled up in bed, and opened the fragile timeworn pages of the book.
Goblin Market, the title poem, is one of her best known - and it tells a wonderful story . Two girls, led ...
