Reply to: Decent Hotels in Manchester.

[aoxomoxoa]

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...

Didsbury House **** | A small luxury town house hotel - Didsbury House - Eclectic Hotels Manchester

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Stayed at the Didsbury a fair bit, very nice too. Can sometimes get reasonable weekday rates as their main clientele is the weekend wedding trade.

[LondonManc]

Indeed, they might also have a discount rate going direct. Although you are relying on someone else which introduces more chance of a screw-up



I prefer TripAdvisor for researching places, myself.

So do I but you also need to check the number of reviews.

[d000hg]

If you are recharging to the client ask them if they can book and pay for the hotel for you.

Indeed, they might also have a discount rate going direct. Although you are relying on someone else which introduces more chance of a screw-up



I prefer TripAdvisor for researching places, myself.

[TheFaQQer]

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...

Didsbury House **** | A small luxury town house hotel - Didsbury House - Eclectic Hotels Manchester

Boutique hotels aren't going to give you the points and frequent flyer miles that the Hilton does - my 11 months at Orange got me two weeks in Hawaii

[LondonManc]

Booked the Palace £79...

Abode looks good and may use that for the regular stint next month..

Cheers all.

A couple of good pubs near enough straight over the road:

The Salisbury Ale House (Manchester, England): Address, Phone Number, Bar & Club Reviews - TripAdvisor

The Thirsty Scholar, Manchester - Restaurant Reviews & Photos - TripAdvisor

Just avoid Deansgate Locks - horrendously overpriced.

[MercladUK]

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).

Booked the Palace £79...

Abode looks good and may use that for the regular stint next month..

Cheers all.

[cojak]

Review what? You want somewhere clean and does a decent breakfast. Expedia is your friend, they have reviews.

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).

[MrMarkyMark]

Found the Abode quite acceptable, when we were up that way.

Abode Manchester (England) - Hotel Reviews - TripAdvisor

[LondonManc]

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...

Didsbury House **** | A small luxury town house hotel - Didsbury House - Eclectic Hotels Manchester

But... Didsbury???

[northernladuk]

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!

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...

Didsbury House **** | A small luxury town house hotel - Didsbury House - Eclectic Hotels Manchester

[unixman]

If in doubt, Premier Inn.

[original PM]

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!

[pjclarke]

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.

[northernladuk]

The Gotham hotel..
Hotel Gotham - Manchester

Am sure you could suffer a couple of nights here if you had to..

[SueEllen]

If you are recharging to the client ask them if they can book and pay for the hotel for you.