Leonardo Hotel Manchester Central, Meeting Room

Stayed here over 20 years ago when it was Jury's Inn, so when attending a concert at the Bridgewater Hall, it seemed the obvious choice as it is next door almost. First impressions are important for me and the first thing you see on entering are self check in screens a la Tesco. There are staff available to help. Anyway, I got to my room which was quite adequate. No complaints. Clean and cheerful. View from the window was a building site which did start working noisily around 7.30am. And that's the thing with this hotel, it's noisy. You're always going to get noisy guests but I found the plumbing noisy. Even the bath running on the floor above around midnight was quite disturbing. Went down to breakfast before 8am, not too busy. Excellent coffee, but the bacon was going hard, the sausages none to clever. Hash browns indifferent. Bit disappointed that though there was cheese in the cold section, there was no ham. It had all gone and was not replenished during the 25 minutes that I was breaking my fast. It is advertised at £14 a head. Can't comment about the staff 'cos there weren't many about and I spoke to no one apart from ordering a beer at the bar. But it's just one night and I'd stay there again mainly because of it's location and the "free bus" that makes it easily accessible.

Serviceable hotel in a great location for Manchester Convention Centre. The restaurant has lovely service but is more like a sports bar than somewhere you would want to enjoy food. The service at the front desk ranged from excellent (99% of the hoteliers) to terrifying but overall I'd stay again if I wanted a reasonably priced hotel with good rooms.