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Velvet Hotel Manchester, WorldHotels Crafted
Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Independent · Near Luxury
Velvet opened in May 2009 in the office floors above its own bar at 2 Canal Street, twenty large rooms in the Gay Village. In 2022 the owners bought number 3 next door, another former office building, and spread the hotel through both. Cotton-reel bedside tables nod at the cloth trade, the 2022 relaunch was timed for Manchester Pride, and the canal is at the end of the street.
- Opened 2009
- Neighborhood: Gay Village
- Interiors: Meraki Design
About Velvet Hotel Manchester, WorldHotels Crafted
- The 2009 fit-out turned four floors of offices over the basement restaurant and ground-floor bar into 20 large rooms, each one different, and the hotel opened that May.
- Meraki Design, Eris Koutsoudakis and Maria Kachramanoglou, did the 2022 rooms in dark tones, with velvet upholstery and bedside tables shaped like cotton reels.
- The house is in the WorldHotels Crafted collection, at 2 Canal Street, four floors, a short walk from Piccadilly.
History
Velvet Hotel opened in May 2009 in four floors of former offices above the Canal Street bar and basement restaurant, 20 large rooms. In 2022 the owners bought 3 Canal Street, which they described as a former office building, and extended the hotel through both addresses. Meraki Design did the new rooms. The house is in the WorldHotels Crafted collection.
The setting
2 Canal Street, M1 3HE, in the Gay Village, with the Rochdale Canal at the end of the street and Piccadilly station a short walk east.
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