The Golden Tulip Manchester is a modern hotel set on the waterfront by Manchester United Football Stadium, one and a half kilometers from the center. The 160 guestrooms are decorated in soft pastel colors with floral fabrics and bright upholstery. All have Internet connections, satellite television, coffee and tea makers, trouser presses, telephones, and complimentary newspapers.
Business users have access to nine meeting rooms of varying sizes, with comprehensive conference facilities including plasma screens, LCD projectors, ISDN access and DVD players. Other hotel facilities include catering services, dry cleaning facilities, and complimentary parking. In the evening, guests can sample specialty cocktails in the hotel bar or dine on Mediterranean dishes at the hotel restaurant. Watersreach has a chic setting decorated in neutral tones, with polished wooden floors and grey leather booth seating, and serves food throughout the day. Manchester is well known as the home of Manchester United Football Club which has a museum situated 50 meters from the hotel. Other attractions including theaters, bars, galleries, and shops, are all within half a kilometer from the hotel. Manchester Airport is 12 kilometers away from the hotel. The airport has its own railway station accessible from the terminal buildings. From here, board a train to Manchester Piccadilly station. From Piccadilly station the Metrolink can be caught to Old Trafford Metrolink Station situated on the Bury/Altrincham Line. Alternatively a black cab can be caught from the taxi rank outside the station at an approximate cost of 6 GBP.