Palace Hotel (Oxford Street.): Her Majesty, the Lobby
Satisfaction:
By JamalMorelli on January 5, 2007
Puts you right in the thick of the city while just far enough away to give you a rest from the mob. Restful - spent little time inside as it was one of my first trip to MANCHESTER and I was out alot. The rooms were surprisingly modern and spare compared to the royally opulent lobby.
The lobby makes you feel like you should pitch a tent there so you can wake up feeling regally weird.
As this was the venue of the conference I had helped organise - I decided to stay here too. As noted on the main page I had high hopes; sadly they were not met!
My negatives - poor signage, beds fixed to wall and wall next to plant room which operates the air conditioing and sadly I had no a/c in my room. Lots of plant noise, room hot and not enetirely comfortable.
I had no lunch on either of the two days I stayed there! The conference lunch menu was poor.
I was advised that 75% of room do not have air conditioing - and windows which do not open. there were few mini bars in the rooms and sadly it was not entirely clean.
Good looking and friendly staff!
they do not appear to have a telephone number unless you go through directory enquiries; however i have attached the reservations number which i found eventually on another web site.