Originally posted by MercladUK
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Hilton then. Easy for nights out, good eateries in walking distance and quick to reach Parkway.The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist -
If you are recharging to the client ask them if they can book and pay for the hotel for you."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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The Gotham hotel..
Hotel Gotham - Manchester
Am sure you could suffer a couple of nights here if you had to..
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For the first few years of my career I worked for Refuge Assurance in Manchester keeping their Honeywell Bull mainframe fed with high quality COBOL. The company dated back to Victorian times and HQ was a labyrinthine brick structure on Oxford Road designed by Alfred Waterhouse, who was also responsible for the Town Hall. In the basement was a dance hall complete with sprung floor for employee tea dances, this being the company perk of choice in the 1890s. It was the staff restaurant when I was there. And the building had a lot of the original Victorian features, parquet flooring, pneumatic mail tubes, marble stairs, big brass timeclock, the company 'honeybee' logo worked into the masonry and the clock face ….
Refuge decamped to Wilmslow in the mid 1990s and, although the Halle orchestra expressed an interest in using the basement for rehearsals the premises were converted into the Palace Hotel. They've done a good job on the refurbishment , as I found out when I took Mrs PJ there for Valentine's this year, though it was a bit weird walking down the old 'management' corridor past offices that are now bedrooms.
Handy for the town centre, and Oxford Road station is opposite. Recommended.My subconscious is annoying. It's got a mind of its own.Comment
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Hilton as someone else said....
or if you can bear to slum it there is a premier inn just the other side of the Mancunian way at bottom of the parkway which would be closer
given the fookin great big hole in the mancunian way at the moment you wanna be as close as possible as traffic is rubbish at the moment!Comment
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If in doubt, Premier Inn.Comment
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Personally I'd look for boutique hotels if you are going to pay Hilton prices. It's still just a Hilton. For the same money you can get some amazing hotels. Didsbury house for example...Originally posted by original PM View Post
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But... Didsbury???Originally posted by northernladuk View PostThe greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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Found the Abode quite acceptable, when we were up that way.
Abode Manchester (England) - Hotel Reviews - TripAdvisorThe Chunt of Chunts.Comment
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I wouldn't bother with Expedia unles you're on the FRS as you don't get VAT receipts from them (or you didn't when I last used them).Originally posted by Churchill View Post"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
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