The 26th
Manchester Phonology Meeting |
Accommodation
You will need to make your own reservation for accommodation, and we hope that the information given below will help you.
The conference venue is the Hulme Hall lecture suite at the University of Manchester, which is located just south of the city centre. Hulme Hall is easy to reach by bus from anywhere in the city centre or from much of South Manchester. The street to orientate yourself towards is Oxford Road (Hulme Hall is very near the bottom of Oxford Road, and the main Manchester University buildings are half way along the road). You can easily catch a bus along Oxford Road - there are hundreds, running every few minutes (details of buses and directions to Hulme Hall are provided on the travel and directions page).
If you have any queries about this, or would like to check that a particular plan is feasible, please contact Patrick Honeybone (patrick.honeybone@ed.ac.uk).
Finding a hotel or hostel
The table below ('Some reasonably priced hotels') lists some relatively cheap hotels in the vicinity of Hulme Hall where participants in the mfm have often stayed before. There is a large number of hotels in Manchester, though, and a good number of hostels, too. One site with a large number of hotels in Manchester can be found here. You could also try websites like www.laterooms.com and www.hotels.com and www.booking.com and www.tripadvisor.com.
The perfectly nice YHA Youth Hostel in Manchester has beds for under GBP20.00 (and you don't have to be a 'youth' to stay there). Its website is here. There are also several other, independent hostels in Manchester, which are likely to be cheap and cheerful and perfectly acceptable. To find them, you could try here: http://reservations.bookhostels.com/lonelyplanet.com/index.php. The Hatters hostels have been used by mfm participants in previous years, among others.
There may also be a very small amount of 'crash' accommodation (ie, the chance to sleep on the floor or blow-up mattress of someone who lives in Manchester for free). Please get in touch (patrick.honeybone@ed.ac.uk) before 4th April if you would like us to try and find you some. While we will try, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to find you crash accommodation.
Some reasonably priced hotels
The table below lists some relatively cheap hotels in the general vicinity of Hulme Hall. Please also see the information on alternative accommodation given above. The rates given are prices for single rooms, and you should check what facilities they offer and if breakfast is included when you book. Please note that the rates given are intended only as a rough guide, and that there can be considerable variation in terms of room types and days. Do check at the time of making your booking. Most of these hotels allow for online booking - click on their name if there is a link.
Some hotels which have been used often by
participants at Manchester Phonology Meetings in previous years are
*asterisked. The Victoria
Park is only a few minutes' walk from Hulme
Hall; the Imperial
and Salutation
Inn are
close too
(but be
warned: all the hotels near Hulme Hall are really quite basic places to stay, and not great
options if you're looking for a nice room; they are
cheap
and close to the conference venue - if you're not able to cope with
basic, we'd advise trying elsewhere);
the Willow Bank
is best reached by one of the many frequent buses travelling away from
the city centre down Wilmslow Road. In recent years, many people
attending the mfm have stayed at one of the two
Ibis
hotels which are very close to each other. These are modern and
comfortable, if rather impersonal, and are in the centre of Manchester
(and the Premier Inn is in the same area). The invited speakers
will
be staying at the Ibis
Manchester (Charles/Princess Street), so you may want to book
yourself in
there, too. Although they are in central
Manchester, it's
easy to get to Hulme Hall from these hotels by bus or
it's certainly possible to walk, too (details of buses and
directions to
Hulme Hall are provided on the travel
and directions page), and overall it's safer to stay in central
Manchester.
Name of Hotel | Address | Rate |
Telephone |
Quite close to conference venue (Hulme Hall). | |||
*Luther King House | Brighton Grove, off Wilmslow Road | GBP c. 50.00 | 224 6404 |
*Verdene | 454 Moss Lane East, M14 4PW | GBP c. 40.00-50.00 | 224 1576 |
Elton Bank | 62 Platt Lane, M14 4NE | GBP c. 30.00-50.00 | 225 3388 |
*Victoria Park | 4 Park Crescent, M14 5RE | GBP c. 40.00-55.00 | 224 1399 |
Slightly further from Hulme Hall but with frequent bus service. | |||
*Ibis Manchester | Corner of Charles Street and Princess Street, M17DL | GBP c. 60.00-100.00 (but quite variable) | 272 5000 |
*Ibis Portland Street | 96 Portland Street, M1 4GY | GBP c. 60.00-100.00 (but quite variable) | 234 0600 |
Premier Inn | 112-114 Portland Street, M1 4WB Several other Premier Inns in Manchester can also be found by folowing the link |
GBP c. 50.00-100.00 (but quite variable) | (0870) 238 3315 |
Holiday Inn Express | 2 Oxford Road, M1 5QA | GBP c. 80.00 + | (0843) 208 3005 |
Travelodge | 227 Upper Brook Street, M13 0HB | GBP c. 60.00-100.00 (but quite variable) | (0871) 984 6487 |
Travelodge |
31 Piccadilly, M1 1LU |
GBP c. 60.00-100.00 (but quite variable) | (0871) 984 6513 |
Travelodge |
22 Great Ancoats Street, M4 5AZ |
GBP c. 60.00-100.00 (but quite variable) | (0871) 984 6282 |
Gardens Hotel |
55 Piccadilly, M1 2AP |
GBP c. 50.00-100.00 (but quite variable) | |
Willow Bank | 340-342 Wilmslow Road, M20 9BM | GBP c. 60.00-70.00 + | 224 0461 |
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