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Thread Author: Badwolf	Replies: 46

Mon 3 Jan 11 17:25

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Badwolf

Hello all, and a very happy new year to you all.

We have tickets to see Take That at the City of Manchester Stadium on June 5th and I really can't be figged trying to find somewhere legal to park, then battling my way out of where I've parked and through the traffic to the motorway. So I'm thinking of finding somewhere to lay our weary heads.

It must be cheap (ie under £60 for the both of us), clean and within a mile of the stadium.

I've tried the usual on-line suspects, ie Active Hotels, Laterooms etc etc but they only seem to have the larger chain hotels which are too expensive.

So does anybody who lives in the area know of any B&Bs that fulfill my criteria?

Many thanks, as always, in anticipation.

B.

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Mon 3 Jan 11 17:45

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Perky Penguin

This may help, came from Googling for B&B + Manchester stadium

www.lodging-world.com/search.uk.england.greater_manchester.manchester.html

Whetever you do, under no circumstances stay at the Britannia Hotel in New Street! Trip advisor will tell you why!

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Mon 3 Jan 11 17:53

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Iffy

Ask Ted nicely and he might let you sleep in the caravan on his drive.

Should be warm enough in June.

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Mon 3 Jan 11 17:56

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - RattleandSmoke

Bit of a treck to Teds though from stadium land. The problem is the Stadium is in a bit of a hellhole and there still isn't that much around the area. I am pretty sure are few Holiday Inn type places on the site now though.

Most the decent hotels are in the city centre which is about 1.5 miles away but you will probably want to avoid that due to parking.

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Mon 3 Jan 11 18:14

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - borasport

If you can stretch to 1.5 miles, there is the Manchester/Salford Campanile, and this link
www.campanile.com/en/specials/index.aspx?WT.mc_id=NBCAUKPROMO&ls=1
suggests rooms from £29 per night, though you probably need to book 3 centuries in advance

Edit - damn, I misread 'citiy of manchester stadium' as 'manchester nynex arena', which tells you how long ago it was i used to work there

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Mon 3 Jan 11 18:22

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Netsur

Not a good idea to stay anywhere near the CoMS. However when I go to watch MCFC, there is parking in the Stadium car parks (access off A6010 Alan Turing Way) for £10 and unofficial parking for £5 in the buildings off Edwin Road (just to the west of the stadium off A662 Ashton New Road).

If you tell me where you are coming from, I can probably give you some suggestions as to reasonably priced hotels. Do you intend to do anything else in Manchester during your visit or simply go the concert and then go home the next day?

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Mon 3 Jan 11 19:03

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Badwolf

Thanks to all for your replies so far.

Espada, we're coming from Southport and will probably only be 'doing' the stadium. The B&B really needs to be within walking distance (1.5 miles max). The annoying thing is that both of my stepchildren live in Withington (ish) but there's nowhere for us to crash at either of there gaffs. Or so they tell us...! :-)

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Mon 3 Jan 11 19:10

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - RattleandSmoke

There is a Travelodge in Gorton but its not a nice walk back. The Picciddily side of the city centre is in easy walking distance and there will be 1000s of people walking into the city centre but parking could be an issue.

It is basic and the area is not great but parking won't be an issue

www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/hotel_overview.php?hotel_id=285

Having said that a lot of the city centre hotels will offer parking for around £10 and most of them are very good quality.

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Mon 3 Jan 11 19:17

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Iffy

Badwolf,

The bigger hotels may come in on budget nearer the time.

For example, take the newish Ramada near the pier at Southport, which you will know.

I paid £80 for dinner, bed and breakfast between this Christmas and New Year, booked about three weeks ahead.

They are talking about £50 room-only (up to two adults) in January.

For those that don't know, it's four star, with enormous rooms, including a fridge, individual climate control, room safe, designer bathrooms etc etc.

www.ramadaplazasouthport.co.uk/

If you can stretch your budget a tiny bit and be patient, I think it's likely one of the hotels near the stadium will do the job.

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Mon 3 Jan 11 19:22

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - RattleandSmoke

But Take That are in town it will put prices up on a lot of the local hotels though I am not sure how that will compare with say a local football match. I guess the big difference is people often want to stay in a hotel after a gig/concert but after a football match they just go home.

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Mon 3 Jan 11 21:28

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - scousehonda

Try the Old Trafford Lodge at Lancashire cricket ground. Very reasonable prices, decent accommodation and free parking. It's got a metro-link station on site as well. Mind you it's probably fully booked via ticketing website rip-off merchants by now.

I've used it loads of times for concerts at the MEN Arena and reckon it's good value.

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Mon 3 Jan 11 21:33

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - RattleandSmoke

Its not a bad place that, the only downside is getting there from East Mancherster. The Stadium is about 1.5 miles east of the city centre. By then there should be a Metrolink service running to the stadium but who knows what delays there could be with that.

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Mon 3 Jan 11 21:39

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Runfer D'Hills

I think I'd go early, park near the venue, spend what you had budgeted for a room on a very pleasing early supper and drive home after the event. If it was me...

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Mon 3 Jan 11 21:44

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - rtj70

It's not the best bit of Manchester to be wandering around late at night in. I think I'd go home if I lived as near as Southport too.

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Mon 3 Jan 11 21:48

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - rtj70

Looking at the Travelodge website they have already hiked their prices for June 5th. The nearest Travelodge is at Sportcity and on the Saturday is unavailable but on the Sunday it is only £19.50. The next closest is on Ancoats and is £109.65 (which is about £35 on the Sunday).

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Mon 3 Jan 11 21:51

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - RattleandSmoke

I have stayed in both those travel lodges (I won't say why but erm.... the other choice was a Ford Ka) and I would not want to paying anything like £100 for either of them. I am sure even on the 5th of June you could get the 4 star Ramada for that.

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Mon 3 Jan 11 21:50

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - RattleandSmoke

Think that is what I would do. Get there early find a parking space, go into the city centre get some decent food and then maybe get a bus to the stadium (they are very frequent and only take 15 minutes - the 216) and drive back.

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Mon 3 Jan 11 22:18

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Netsur

I agree - its only Southport not London. Drive home after the concert.

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Tue 4 Jan 11 00:27

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Badwolf

Thanks again, all.

The main reason for wanting to stay over was so that I wouldn't have the hassle of finding somewhere to park, then joining the countless thousands trying to leave the same small area at exactly the same time. No problems with driving back to Southport at all - it's not exactly a journey that's new to me!

I think, though, that we will have to drive back on the night. I have found a hotel called the Sandown - www.hotelsandown.com/ - which looks ok and has availability on the night in question at £40 for the two of us. If the walk isn't too perilous for us, it might be a goer.

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Tue 4 Jan 11 00:29

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - rtj70

Harpurhey is not a great area - drive home.

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Tue 4 Jan 11 00:31

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Badwolf

Ah, fair enough.

Right - next question. Can anybody recommend somewhere decent to park around the CoM Stadium...? :-)

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Tue 4 Jan 11 00:35

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - RattleandSmoke

I really don't know why they stick these things in the middle of know where, I mean the stadium itself is built on an old coal mine.

There really should be more decent hotels ajoining the stadium but I suppose it is supply and demand, it is mainly used for football and not concerts.

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Tue 4 Jan 11 07:58

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - BiggerBadderDave

"the stadium itself is built on an old coal mine"

He could park down there.

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Tue 4 Jan 11 08:57

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - R.P.

....among the minor celebrities ?

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Tue 4 Jan 11 10:21

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - VxFan

>> "the stadium itself is built on an old coal mine"
>>
>> He could park down there.

Might be a bit Chile.

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Tue 4 Jan 11 10:30

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - R.P.

He'll get shafted though...

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Tue 4 Jan 11 10:32

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - VxFan

Only by a miner amount I would have thought.

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Tue 4 Jan 11 10:38

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - R.P.

You ae the pits !

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Tue 4 Jan 11 11:34

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Clk Sec

>>He'll get shafted though...

I doubt it. Quite a slack regime down there...

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Tue 4 Jan 11 09:02

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Netsur

See my post above about parking in and around the stadium.

You do not want to stay at the hotel mentioned. Not a great location and I drive past it often enough to think that it might not be that great.

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Tue 4 Jan 11 10:16

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Iffy

A few years ago I stopped in the Castlefield Hotel, which is 1.1m from the Arena, according to Google Maps.

Decent enough place, in a decent enough location, not far from the Granada studios.

The walk is through the centre of Manchester, which is about as safe as you will get.

I've just checked a sample date in June and it's showing £59 room only for two adults.

The OP could do a lot worse than Take That.

www.castlefield-hotel.co.uk/

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Tue 4 Jan 11 10:40

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Bromptonaut

Stop worrying about the car and take a train to Manchester?

Advance fare probably less than £35 return for the both of you.

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Tue 4 Jan 11 10:46

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Badwolf

Thanks, Iffy but I think you've got the CoM Stadium mixed up with the MEN Arena :-).

It's a 3.2 mile walk from the hotel you mentioned to the CoM Stadium!

But ta anyway.

I think we'll definitely be driving back after the concert.

Bromptonaut - sadly the last train leaves Piccadilly for Southport long before we could get there after the concert.

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Tue 4 Jan 11 10:50

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Iffy

...Thanks, Iffy but I think you've got the CoM Stadium mixed up with the MEN Arena :-)...

Oops - never make a bus driver, will I?

I think Take That are playing at Sunderland AFC's Stadium of Light, so I should have known it was a stadium tour.

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Tue 4 Jan 11 11:16

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Bromptonaut

>> Bromptonaut - sadly the last train leaves Piccadilly for Southport long before we could get
>> there after the concert.

Thought that would be the case, it's a trial to catch both the encore and the last train from the NEC or Wembley to Northampton.

I had rail and hotel in mind.

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Tue 4 Jan 11 15:37

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Ted

Harpurhey deffy a nono. I've done a lot of work in the area.
The Sandown always looked like mostly DSS occupied flophouse.

Ted

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Tue 4 Jan 11 15:50

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Netsur

A very succinct and I think accurate description, Ted

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Tue 4 Jan 11 16:08

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - RattleandSmoke

Thanks that is handy to know :).

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Mon 7 Feb 11 16:09

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - borasport

Can I revitalise this thread to ask if anybody has any recommendations for parking near the Manchester MEN/Nynex/whatever its called these days Arena ?

ta

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Mon 7 Feb 11 16:13

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - RattleandSmoke

The Boddingtons one is probably the best, its about £3 a day not sure if it is 24/7 though. There is a car park next Victoria Station where the Arena is but that costs a fortune. It is not realy my end of Manchester as its "north of the library" but I know there are quite a few car parks within walking distance which are very cheap.

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Mon 7 Feb 11 16:25

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Dave_

I would just Google for it and go with the best-promoted one. When I went to a concert at Wembley Arena before Christmas I spent an age looking around online for free or cheap parking near tube stations or close to the arena itself, but then the friend I was going with booked a £20 space literally outside Wembley Stadium itself. Cheaper than a hotel. There are bound to be similar facilities in Manchester, I would have thought.

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Mon 7 Feb 11 16:36

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - RattleandSmoke

Quite often the cheapest car parks are not promoted though, because they are essentialy justy a plot of land which was supposed to be a massive building project but the was a victim of the crunch.

I think the Boddingtons car park is one such site.

tinyurl.com/6ez35ec

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Mon 7 Feb 11 18:04

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Ted

If you're not staying the night, why not come off the M60 at the A56 junction.
The A56 runs parallel to the Metrolink and there should be easy free parking near one of the stations. I had a look at the car park at Sale station today while waiting for an Altrincham Tram. Quite a few spaces which should be free of cars in the evening. Dane Road has a large pub car park next door. Catch the Bury tram and get off at the MEN. arena.

Ted

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Mon 7 Feb 11 18:12

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Netsur

Borasport

When are you going and are you still coming in from Wigan area?

The car park under the Arena is not that expensive and there are loads of 'sites' that do 'ad hoc' parking for Arena events for about £5.

As Rattle said, maybe get the tram from a convenient stop (Whitefield/Prestwich)?

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Tue 8 Feb 11 09:19

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - borasport

EIII - tonight ! (don't you dare look up what's on there tonight)

Recommendations for somewhere to eat beforehand would be appreciated.

We might end up going on the train yet

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Tue 8 Feb 11 09:23

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - Focusless

>> EIII - tonight ! (don't you dare look up what's on there tonight)

Couldn't resist after seeing that! Well at least it's not a boy band :)

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Tue 8 Feb 11 09:31

B&B recommendations, Manchester please. - SteelSpark

I'm not sure what it is called but there is a hill near the stadium. There's a road going down the other side of this hill. I'm pretty sure there is a hotel there.

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