The best hotels in Manchester for 2025
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Two words: Oasis reunion. Could there be a more exciting year to visit Manchester and stay at one of the best hotels in Manchester while you're there? All eyes are on the city in 2025. Even if you didn’t get tickets, or couldn’t give a fig about Oasis or their antics, the good news is a visit here will never tire you – its energy is infectious. It's a music and sports powerhouse city and there's something for everybody. Plus, there are some wonderful hotels covering all price points to bring your experience up to the next level.
On the culinary front, chef patron Shaun Moffat opened the doors to Winsome on Princess Street (March), Lina Stores opened (April), and Big Mamma’s Circolo Popolare lands this year (June) – the culture and culinary scene in Manchester is en pointe.
As for hotels, Manchester has some exciting new openings this year and a sensational stable of established stays. There’s a band of new hotels on the horizon in 2025 – there are two that we’re keeping a close eye on – Soho House Manchester and Mollie’s make their northern debut.
There are 140 hotels in Manchester, with 41 of them being part of chains, but we’ve selected what we think are the ‘best’ stays in the city, for luxury, style and service. Here are our carefully curated picks of the 11 best hotels in the city…
What is the best part of Manchester to stay in?
The best hotels in Manchester are grouped centrally, just a short walk from the station hubs of Piccadilly, Oxford Road or Victoria. Manchester’s creative Northern Quarter is the soul of the city and a favoured place to stay for the arts, and Manchester’s village has some of the coolest hybrid hotels.
Treehouse Hotel Manchester
Best for: stepping into a dreamy storybook
Treehouse Manchester – the sister hotel of the much-loved, botanically-influenced Treehouse London – has finally taken root on Blackfriars Street in previously run-down 15-storey hotel that has been incredibly transformed into the hottest spot in town. It has 224 rooms and nine suites (some to be unveiled in 2025, such as the treetop suite), and after trudging around the city, entering the building is like walking into a colour-rich Enid Blyton book. This is home to beautiful botanically-influenced spaces and bedrooms.
Once past the leafy entrance, the seasonal, low-waste restaurant Pip, led by Mary-Ellen McTague, serves the best of British fare. Here, updated classics are executed with flair. Try the fluffy cheese gougères, delicious Lancashire hotpot or fish pie (a special), and sticky treacle tart.
Bedrooms are cheerfully designed with vivid patchwork covers, soft cream rugs, and plenty of space to lounge in over retro board games and books. The wide city views are fascinating to wake up to.
The hotel has a private cinema – the size of a small Everyman screen – and gorgeous private dining spaces with whimsical carpets. We liked the use of the wall space, where guests could add notes to form a memory collage and the refillable water bottle stations. There’s also padel at The Pollen Club next door.
Later this year, there will be an elevated Southeast Asian menu on the 14th floor and a botanical rooftop bar with sweeping city views – The Nest. Honestly, Treehouse Manchester adds colour to the Manchester hotel scene.
Top tip: Book a studio suite, which can be connected for families with older children. The kids' excitement could be heard from down the corridor when they discovered their ‘wonder-filled’ treehouse digs.
Address: Blackfriars Street, Manchester M3 2EQ
Wilde Manchester
Best for: stylish longer city stays
Just beside St.Peter’s Square tram stop, and within striking distance of the brilliant Manchester Art Gallery, Wilde Manchester offers a host of bright and modern studios and one-bedroom apartments with all the home comforts needed for a longer-term stay. This is a new(ish) breed of aparthotel accommodation that works well if you're planning an extended stay in a city, and – crucially – want the option to self-cater.
As for the interiors, there are natural hues of fresh green, washed-oak, copper and jet black which provide the perfect contrast in the stylish and functional spaces – book one with big city views. There’s 24-hour service, a well-stocked snack and ingredient pantry and bar, and bumper breakfasts.
The Wilde brand is expanding rapidly, with three new locations: Cambridge, Vienna and Lisbon, launching in 2025.
Top tip: We loved the sleek and spacious one-bedroom apartments, which sleep up to four, come with fully equipped Smeg kitchens, sassy, sage-green and blonde lounge and dining areas and super-powered rainfall showers.
Address: 3 Dickinson Street, Manchester, M1 4LF
Dakota Manchester
Best for: cool, understated luxury
Dakota’s Manchester outpost embodies the brand’s hallmark sultry luxury – charismatic, grown-up designer interiors in latte-hued, muted tones, the finest crisp cotton sheets, and rain showers. Outstanding food, top-notch service, and a sleek bar resembling a Mad Men set are also memorable features. Of the hotel’s 137 rooms, the grand deluxe suite offers a wraparound eighth-floor balcony, two ultra-high-spec bedrooms with emperor-size beds, and a snug lounge.
Top tip: Dakota Grill has old-school glamour written all over it, and it seeps through to the swish restaurant and bar – go for a signature, prime-cut steak and a glass of red. Sunday lunch is a special event in itself – plan a walk afterwards.
Address: 29 Ducie St, Manchester M1 2JL
Leven
Best for: design dreams
Located near Manchester’s Canal Street, ‘living the dream’ at Leven means booking the two-bedroom penthouse, where no design detail has been spared. Everything about Leven is voguish, from the sensational NYC loft layout of the building with Crittall windows and timber plank floors to the pristine Porcelanosa deep baths and marble-topped dining tables. Come nightfall, the hotel’s cocktails hit the spot; try a Respectful Vimto, a gin and Belsazar rosé-based preprandial tipple – with popping candy.
Top tip: book a table at Maya, sister restaurant to Mayfair’s Isabel, a canalside brasserie and fine-dining room from the team behind Petersham Nurseries and Soho House, with chef Georgie Hewitt at the reins, serving exciting, modern European dishes.
Address: 40 Chorlton St, Manchester M1 3HW
Whitworth Locke
Best for: a weekend with pals
Deftly capturing the essence of the perfectly hip city stay, Whitworth Locke doesn’t disappoint. It has all the best ingredients for a weekend with pals: cosy apartments in a cool neighbourhood, on-trend design elements and leafy co-working spaces, and world food and events within striking distance – and also, in-house. The design-savvy aparthotel is set in a 19th-century cotton factory, minutes from Chinatown and a short walk to the creative Northern Quarter. Care of New York design and architecture legends, Grzywinski+Pons, its aesthetic nods to all the quirks of the building, which makes it truly wonderful. Inside the pastel-pretty, candy pink and dark green-hued apartments, you’ll find roomy, artful studios with Smeg kitchens, top-spec, custom-design furniture, and Kinsey Apothecary toiletries.
Top tip: book the super-luxe, candyfloss-pink two-bedroom suite and settle into the neighbourhood. For dinner, get a table (or try your luck) at chef patron Shaun Moffat’s Winsome.
Address: 74 Princess St, Manchester M1 6JD
Kimpton Clocktower Hotel
Best for: being at the heart of the action
The majestic Victorian facade of the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel is a draw, and its super-central city location – it’s just moments from Oxford Road train station. The hotel was designed by Manchester’s superstar architect, Alfred Waterhouse, and many of the building’s unique features have been maintained immaculately. There are 270 rooms and suites, and the hotel has the city’s first three-bedroom suite, housed in the panelled former directors' office (Suite No.51). Book a speciality suite for a sumptuous Kimpton bed, in-room record player, and vinyl collection. Stop for a gin and tonic at the Winter Garden, an airy, whimsical, green conservatory space, before dining at Refuge.
Top tip: Try the Refuge afternoon tea and afterwards check out the latest exhibition at the hotel, Ein Null, an art exhibit (running until the 31st of May 2025) that pays tribute to Manchester’s own Sprechen record label.
Address: Oxford St, Manchester M60 7HA
King Street Townhouse
Best for: a pool with a panoramic
King Street does cosy best: the 40-room boutique hotel has more of a private residence feel and is all the better for it. There’s nothing cookie-cutter about it. The hotel has an excellent spa with a marvellous city-view pool on the seventh floor and a sharp, brasserie-style restaurant, Tavern – standouts are the honey-glazed duck and crispy cauliflower steak. The hotel’s private cinema in the cellar is an added surprise. In the spa, ESPA treatments are the order of the day, and the new menu is extensive – try the blissful ESPA signature, which includes a salt stone back, shoulder and foot massage and a quartz stone facial.
Top tip: book one of the two stylishly curated one-bedroom suites, named after Manchester’s Alfred Waterhouse and Abel Heywood, for a beautiful stay with private infinity pool access – they have prime views of Manchester’s glorious Town Hall clock tower.
Address: 10 Booth St, Manchester M2 4AW
Rebecca HopeNative
Best for: a chic loft stay
Native has a whopping 162 luxury serviced apartments within Grade II-listed Ducie Street Warehouse, and the upside is that it has everything you need in the place. It’s a community, really, with a restaurant, deli, bar, cinema, fitness classes and a snazzy outdoor terrace – and it’s just a two-minute walk from Manchester Piccadilly. Go for one of the super-splashy lofts above the community space: think vast parquet floors, double-height ceilings, exposed red brick and powder-blue walls and pops of teal and orange bespoke furniture.
Top tip: Head downstairs for the pop-up markets, life drawing classes, mini-cinema, social dining menu or disco brunches; Ducie keeps growing, as it should. Just book it, it’s very cool.
Address: Warehouse, Ducie St, Manchester M1 2TP
Bevan CockerillStock Exchange Hotel
Best for: a blow-out experience
Set in the spectacular Manchester Stock Exchange (the grand building is circa 1906) and owned by Manchester United’s Gary Neville, the Edwardian baroque beauty of the 40-room Stock Exchange ticks all the right boxes for a spoiling city stay. Not only are the dreamily ornate interiors swoonsome – such as gorgeous stained glass elements and opulent marble floors and columns – but the hotel's brasserie, tender, led by chef Niall Keating, is excellent. Niall was one of the UK’s youngest chefs to be awarded two Michelin stars; the restaurant serves sumptuous mod-British classic dishes you’ll long to return for.
Try the new dining menu experience: we loved the salt and pepper squid with garlic aioli, the whole roasted lemon sole with Scottish langoustines, the salt-aged tomahawk steak and the prettily-plated, artful cheesecake – children can happily order from the all-day menu. Sterling, the hotel’s speakeasy-style bar, is a sophisticated and sufficiently moody spot to imbibe, serving custom cocktails and rare wines.
The dashing dining room with all its pretty details – the gilded, lofty ceiling being an excellent reminder always to look up. It is a truly wonderful location for a dinner date.
Top tip: for ultimate decadence, go all-out and opt for The Goldstone Suite – the massive two-bedroom suite offers everything you could need and more in an understated, luxurious style. Alas, leaving isn’t optional.
Address: 4 Norfolk St, Manchester M2 1DW
The Lowry
Best for: Manchester’s art heritage
The Lowry is a proper Manchester icon. Named after Laurence Stephen Lowry, L.S. Lowry, an industrial art icon famed for his ‘Matchstick Men’ paintings, the landmark address is further out of the city, has a quieter pace, and is dedicated to the world-famous local artist. Once inside the polished building, art is abundant, as expected: there are also rotating art and photography exhibitions. Chow down on comforting bistro plates at River restaurant or gift yourself with a long afternoon tea, looking out onto the wispy River Irwell.
Top tip: for adults, there’s an Elemis spa that begs to be made use of once you’ve checked into one of the luxurious superior rooms. For children, there are complimentary teddies. It’s a win-win.
Address: 50 Dearmans Pl, Salford M3 5LH
The Edwardian
Best for: old-world luxury
For a deluxe experience, book The Edwardian – a five-star centre piece set in Manchester’s Grade II-listed Free Trade Hall, dating back to 1853. A multi-million-pound makeover means that though the handsome 19th-century facade has remained, the 263-room hotel has been upscaled as a luxurious lifestyle destination. Once inside, the colour palette enhances that velvet feeling: warm and rich, with earthy wooden flooring and polished leather banquettes. There’s a spa with a health suite, a gym and a restaurant, Peter Street Kitchen, dishing up delicious Mexican and Japanese small plates, but – if you wish to venture outside – step out the door onto buzzy Deansgate.
Top tip: the swanky spa is something to shout about. Based in the peaceful vaults, there’s a glassy 12-metre swimming pool, fragrant sauna and steam rooms, and an experience shower – a serene cocoon for an afternoon.