The Midland Hotel

About The Midland Hotel

The Midland opened in 1903 to serve Central Station, and it was built to impress: Burmantofts terracotta and polished granite outside, marble and mahogany within, and a scale that no later Manchester hotel has matched. Charles Rolls met Henry Royce here in 1904, a fact the hotel has never let anyone forget. The Grade II listed building has now been part of the city for over 120 years and has been refurbished repeatedly without losing the essential Edwardian bones.

There are 312 bedrooms and suites, which makes it one of the largest hotels in the centre. Standard rooms are comfortable and unremarkable; the money is better spent on the higher categories, which are considerably more generous and look out over Peter Street or towards the Central Library and the Town Hall Extension. Because of the size, the hotel handles conferences and weddings alongside leisure guests, and it has eleven meeting rooms taking up to 700 people.

Dining is the strongest reason to stay. Adam Reid at The French holds four AA Rosettes and has been rated among the best restaurants in the country, working a tasting-menu format in the hotel's original dining room; Mount Street Dining Room and Bar is the more relaxed alternative, and afternoon tea in the Tea Room is a Manchester institution. The Rena Spa has a pool, thermal suite and gym. Location is central: the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Central and Deansgate are all a few minutes' walk.