Manchester Hotels

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 ...
...the nearest is the NCP Palace car park but at £15.50 a day it's not cheap - a better deal for Palace residents can be had at the one a 5 minute walk away which only costs £7.50 a day if they validate your ticket at reception. It is an imposing building amd hard to miss (clever of me to walk past, actually!) and the entrance hall is cavernous and grand. The staff on reception are friendly and check-in was swift - this is a four star hotel and it ... Read review

Advantages: nice room, clean
Disadvantages: staff, no parking

Last weekend I was going to visit my sister in Manchester and I needed a place to stay. It was only one night's accommodation I needed though, so I didn't really want to pay anything over £60 for the night. It may sound too cheap for some but I am saving for my holidays so that's why. I know the Travel Inn and Travel Lodge do cheap rooms as does the Novotel so I looked on their websites to see what they had on offer. Out of all of them the cheapest ...
...Travel Lodge at Ashton Under Lyne which is on the outskirts of the city and I usually stay here for £26 a night. You have to book over a month in advance if you want to see if they have any of their £10 saver rooms but what I tend to find is the hotels that have this offer are usually motorway ones and not near cities. The next best thing is the £26 a night which is 21 days in advance but I didn't choose Ashton Under Lyne because this time I wanted ... Read review

Advantages: Fantastic architure and history to this Grade II listed building
Disadvantages: Now contains a cheap and noisy hotel

...Manchester City Centre, then the Britannia Hotel in Manchester cit centre seems to fit the bill. Unfortunately however, the rooms, atmosphere and general politeness of staff are somewhat lacking. I would recommend staying somwehere else, such as the Portland Thistle hotel next door, or the Piccadilly Gardens hotel (a short walk away). The Britannia does seem to attract most of the stag do's in town and irish football fans when Manchester United are ...
...are two bars at the Britannia Hotel - WAVE bar and Bar-Rogue, I would reccomend avoiding WAVE bar and Bar Rogue on a weekend night as it does attract a lot of unsavoury characters and trouble is commonplace at weekends, the drinks offers are superb though, with many £1 a pint promotions on throughout the week. Both bars offer food all day long at affordable prices and there is music provided by the in-house DJ's. Also located within the hotel complex ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, clean, good location, comfy bed
Disadvantages: none for me

We booked the Travelodge for a trip to Manchester, with a £19 per room booking. Myself and my sister arrived there in totally foul rainy weather and had never driven through Ashton under Lyne before and because of this we got a bit lost as it is on the edge of a retail park in a one way system so listen carefully to your sat nav! Anyway, there was a fairly big carpark, and we got a parking space really easily. We were given a room with a view on ...
...double bed, and a single pull out sofa bed, both of which were very clean and comfortable. There was also good tea & coffee making facilities of which we nearly drank them dry! The hotel shared it's carpark with a pub which did good grub, so we went there for our tea. The lady on reception at the hotel kindly phoned us a taxi to take us to our night out. The hotel was quiet given that it was on a main road, and when we arrived back there at midnight-ish, ... Read review

Advantages: Location, service, food
Disadvantages: Small rooms

...to the centre of the city - Piccadilly Gardens. The staff have always been helpful through my stays. The decor is contemporary and the rooms are finished to a high standard. Every room comes equiped with an Apple desktop computer with free internet acess - a nice touch. Fixture and fitting are all of a high spec and clean throughout. My only grip perhaps is that all the rooms are quite small. The hotel bar is again contemporary in style, but is comfortable ... Read review