Corporate and business stays in Manchester
Corporate stays in Manchester city centre
Whole apartments in Manchester for people working in the city. A desk, proper wifi, self check-in at any hour, and an invoice your finance team will accept.
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The short answer
Business and corporate accommodation in Manchester city centre.
We let whole apartments in Manchester to people working in the city: consultants on a client site, project teams, people covering a role for a few months, and anyone whose company would otherwise be paying city centre hotel rates four nights a week. You get the whole property rather than a room, with somewhere to work, a kitchen, a washing machine and self check-in at whatever hour the last train gets in. We invoice the company properly, with a purchase order reference if you need one.
Called a few different things
Different companies call this different things. Corporate accommodation Manchester, business accommodation Manchester, corporate housing Manchester, corporate let Manchester, short term serviced apartments Manchester, corporate short term lets, serviced apartments, commercial accommodation, corporate rental, or simply a better business hotel Manchester alternative. It is all the same request: somewhere better than a hotel room for somebody who is in the city to work rather than to sightsee.
What finance actually asks
A hotel for four nights a week, for three months, is a line item somebody will question.
That is usually what starts this conversation. Manchester city centre hotel rates on a Monday to Thursday pattern, multiplied across a project, become visible in a way that a serviced apartment does not, and the hotel gives you a room, a kettle and a breakfast you are too early for. An apartment costs less across the same period and is a considerably better place to spend three months. It suits you if:
Where you would be
Where the work actually is in Manchester.
The professional quarter is one walk
Spinningfields, St Peter's Square, King Street and the streets between them hold most of the legal, financial and consulting work in the city, and they sit close enough together that a central flat puts all of them within a short walk. On a wet Tuesday in November that is worth more than any amenity listed in the building specification.
NOMA, Ancoats and the eastern side
North and east of the core, NOMA and Ancoats hold a lot of the tech, media and creative work, and they are a ten to fifteen minute walk from Piccadilly rather than from Deansgate. If your client sits there, the western side of the centre is the wrong end of town by twenty minutes a day, which does not sound like much until week six.
MediaCity is a separate decision
Salford Quays is a tram ride or a short drive from the centre, not a walk, and its stop sits on a branch of the line rather than the main route through town. For a week that is fine. For a project running months it is worth asking whether you should be out there instead of defaulting to the city centre, and a straight answer beats a sale.
What the tram does and does not do
Metrolink is genuinely useful for crossing the conurbation and reaching the airport, and it is not an underground: it runs on the street through the middle, it is slow across the centre, and a change costs you more than the map implies. For anything inside the core, walking usually wins. For Salford Quays, Old Trafford or Altrincham, the tram is the answer.
Piccadilly, Victoria and the airport
Piccadilly is the station for London and most of the country, Victoria takes much of the Yorkshire and northern traffic, and both sit inside the walkable core. The airport is reachable by train from Piccadilly and by tram, and the train is quicker by a clear margin. If you are flying in and out every week, that gap adds up fast.
Actually working from the flat
Most project weeks include at least one day not spent at the client site, and that day exposes whatever the apartment lacks: a table at the wrong height, no second chair, a bedroom with nowhere to sit, a connection nobody has tested on back to back video calls. It is a fair thing to ask about in detail rather than discover on a Wednesday morning.
Midweek and weekend are different cities
Monday to Thursday the centre is a working city and largely quiet by eleven. From Friday it fills: football at Old Trafford and the Etihad, arena crowds, and Deansgate, Peter Street and the Northern Quarter loud until late. If you travel home at weekends none of that matters. If you stay, it decides which street you want to be on.
The mistake is booking the postcode
People choose the address they have heard of and work out the commute afterwards, which in a city this compact is backwards. Start at the client's front door, walk ten minutes in each direction and see what that covers. Half the time it covers everything you need. The other half it tells you the obvious central choice is the wrong one.
Booking direct
The same property, without the platform's cut.
Our properties are on Airbnb and Booking.com as well, and you are welcome to book there. Booking direct also avoids the guest service fee the big platforms add on top, which on a longer Manchester stay is not a small number. Booking with us direct also means you are talking to the people who actually run the property rather than a message thread inside an app, which matters when you need an early check-in or an extra week.
For a project running more than a few weeks, message us rather than booking online. We can quote a weekly or monthly rate, invoice the company monthly in arrears, and hold the property across the whole project rather than you rebooking every week.
In every property
What is actually there when you arrive.
Manchester questions
What people ask about staying in Manchester.
Where in Manchester would I actually be?
Manchester's professional work sits around Spinningfields and St Peter's Square, the tech and media side in NOMA and Ancoats, and broadcast out at MediaCity on the tram. A central flat covers the first three on foot and the fourth in twenty minutes.
Can I park in Manchester?
Most of the city centre is permit or paid parking and a lot of apartment blocks have no allocated space at all. If you are bringing a car, ask about the specific property, because it is the single most common thing people get wrong here.
Which part of Manchester should I be in?
Most of what you would need day to day sits in the city centre, the Northern Quarter, Ancoats and the inner suburbs. Tell us where you need to be each morning rather than which postcode you fancy, and we will be honest about what is close to it and what only looks close on a map.
How easy is it to get around Manchester without a car?
Metrolink reaches Altrincham, Bury, Rochdale, MediaCity and the airport from the middle of the city, and Piccadilly puts London inside two hours.
What is there to do in Manchester on a day off?
The Northern Quarter, Ancoats, Castlefield and the museums are all walkable from a central base, and the Peak District is inside an hour by train or car. On a long stay the Peaks are what most people end up using at weekends.
Questions we get asked
What companies ask us before booking.
Can you invoice the company rather than me?
Yes, that is the normal arrangement. We invoice the company directly with the dates, the address and any purchase order reference, and VAT is shown properly. Give us the billing details when you book and it will be right first time rather than something you chase from a hotel lobby.
Do you do weekly or monthly corporate rates?
Yes. The rate drops as the stay gets longer and drops again beyond a month. For a Monday to Thursday pattern over a long project, talk to us rather than booking nights online, because there is usually a better way to structure it.
Can I actually work from the apartment?
Yes, and that is deliberate. There is desk space and proper wifi rather than a chair by a window and a connection that struggles with a video call. If you need to know the actual speed at a specific property before you commit, ask and we will tell you.
What if I arrive on the last train?
Fine. Check-in is self service with a code, so there is no reception to reach and nobody to wake up. Same for a five in the morning departure.
Can a few of us stay together?
Our Manchester properties sleep up to four in separate bedrooms, which suits a small project team sharing. For larger groups we can often put you in two properties near each other. Message us rather than trying to make the booking calendar do it.
How does it compare with a hotel on cost?
For one or two nights a hotel is usually simpler. From about a week upward the apartment is cheaper, and across a multi-month project it is not close, particularly once meals are counted. Send us the pattern and the dates and we will give you a total you can put in front of finance.
Is this the same as a serviced apartment?
Broadly yes. Short term serviced apartments Manchester, corporate housing and what we do all describe a furnished whole property let by the week or the month with bills and cleaning included. The difference tends to be who runs it. Ours are managed by a small team you can reach rather than a central call centre, which is what people notice when something needs fixing on a Sunday.
Check availability
Send us the project dates.
Check availability on the booking site, or message reservations with the dates, the pattern and how many of you, and we will quote it properly.
Reservations, seven days a week, on 0333 880 7213