HOTELS IN GREATER MANCHESTER

Greater Manchester is an area rich in culture and countryside, bordering on the Lake District, the Yorkshire and the Derbyshire Dales, and the Peak District too. With the city of Manchester at its heart, this county offers much more than just a city experience on your short break in Greater Manchester.

Manchester itself is a cool city, effortlessly blending classic architecture with modern buildings. This birthplace of the Industrial Revolution is also one of the hottest places in the UK for new music, so look out for local bands playing near your Manchester hotel or accommodation. You might discover the next Morrissey, Oasis or Happy Mondays in a Manchester pub or club, as you sit and sip your pint of local Bonningtons beer! With smart nightclubs, world-class theatre, and go-ahead arts galleries and museums, a short break in Manchester is never long enough - and that's before you even start shopping!

Greater Manchester is packed with reminders of its rich industrial past, and the names and faces that shaped and changed Britain forever. Rochdale was once centre to the cotton industry, and the Co-operative movement started here too. Oldham sits on the edge of wild and rugged moorland countryside, a Victorian town as fascinating and stately as its one-time MP, Winston Churchill.
Author George Orwell took "The Road to Wigan Pier" in 1937, staying with families rather than the more comfortable Greater Manchester bed and breakfasts of today. Don't look for a seaside pier at Wigan, however; it was actually on the canal!