Best Western Willowbank Hotel Manchester

As well as comfortable, high-standard accommodation at sensible prices, the hotel also offers top quality dining in Coliseum Restaurant. The good facilities include the luxurious Lowry Lounge and the glorious Enigma Bar, which takes Manchester's ‘greats’ as its theme.

The Best Western Willow Bank also features top-class facilities for business including 3 fully refurbished and air conditioned meeting rooms that can accommodate meetings of any size, from 2 to 200 people. All of the meeting rooms are fully equipped with a complete range of audiovisual equipment. Wi-Fi access is available throughout, and the hotel's attractive lounges act as ideal breakout areas. The highly trained and dedicated professional staff can help with every aspect of planning your meeting, conference or event. The hotel is just 5 minutes from the M56 motorway and the city centre.

Here you will find one of the warmest, friendliest welcomes in all of Manchester from a highly trained and hand-picked team.

Please note that this hotel is not accessible for guests in wheelchairs and unfortunately does not have a lift.

The hotel’s newly refurbished rooms are ideal for both the business and leisure traveller. All of the comfortable rooms are well equipped, with all the modern comforts and facilities you need in a restful, relaxing base. Whether you are exploring the region as a tourist, visiting the area on business or attending a conference, the comfortable, peaceful rooms provide a relaxing haven.

From August 2008 the hotel will benefit from free Wi-Fi throughout.

The hotel’s own on site restaurant is the Coliseum. The restaurant offers full service and a menu featuring a range of international favourites, complemented by an extensive wine list. The restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Room service is available 24 hours a day.

The hotel is within easy reach of the Printworks and the centre of Manchester’s vibrant nightlife. The renowned Deansgate area and many of the city’s best shops are also just a short distance away, including Selfridges, Louis Vuitton and Harvey Nichols.

The hotel is adjacent to Manchester’s Chinatown district, which is the second largest Chinatown outside London. The fabulous nightlife of Canal Street, the centre of gay Manchester is also within easy reach.

By Car (from the south):
- From the M6 motorway, join the M56 motorway towards Manchester and Manchester Airport.
- Follow the M56 to the end, until it becomes initially a 50 mph carriageway, then a 40mph carriageway.
- This is now the A5103.
- Continue straight on at the crossroads, where the A5145 intersects with the A5103.
- Continue on through 2 sets of traffic lights.
- Continue on through 2 pedestrian crossings with traffic lights, you will pass the playing fields on the left-hand side.
- At the next set of traffic lights turn right, following the signs towards Withington.
- Continue along this road (Mauldeth Road West), going straight on at the first set of traffic lights.
- At the 2nd set of traffic lights turn left, this is now Wilmslow Road.
- The hotel is a few hundred metres further on, on the left-hand side, just past the Lansdowne Hotel, and just before Mcdonald’s.

By Car (from the north):
- From the M62, West Yorkshire or the M61, Preston, join the M60 motorway, following the signs towards Manchester Airport.
- Leave the M60 motorway at junction 5.
- Keep left and immediately exit left towards Northenden.
- Turn left at the traffic lights, with the post house on the left-hand side.
- Continue along this road for about 2 miles (3.25 km), the hotel is situated on the left-hand side about 500 metres after Withington, just after the Lansdowne Hotel, and just before Mcdonald’s.

By Car (from the city centre):
- Follow Oxford Road from the city centre, following the signs for the universities.
- Continue along this road for about 2 miles (3.25 km) through Rusholme. Oxford Road then turns into Wilmslow Road.
- Pass the Sainsbury's supermarket on the left-hand side and the Mcdonald’s on the right, the hotel is on the right-hand side, just after the Mcdonald’s.