Flying visit to Manchester and need some help

12 Sep 2005

Being the wonderful,kind,helpful,considerate,non-pisstaking people that you are I would ask a favour of some info regarding parking in Manchester on an October saturday I mention non-pisstaking? biggrin

I've got a job expo to go to at the Jarvis Picadilly Plaza on the 22nd October and have to drive up due to time there a park and ride facility or is it better/easier to park near the centre?What are the best options (for parking)?

12 Sep 2005

dont know sod all about parking, but coukd stow away with you and we can get lost together
xx fem xx

12 Sep 2005

Quote by fem_4_taboo
dont know sod all about parking, but could stow away with you and we can get lost together
xx fem xx

Always love it when you talk smutty biggrin

12 Sep 2005

Thanks Judy,you're a diamond.
Sorry I won't be staying long in Manchester,just long enough for the expo,or else I could have given you a shout.
Thanks again for the the idea about using the tram.

12 Sep 2005

Contact the hotel direct. You may find they have some concessions with one of the local NCP car parks which could drastically reduce your cost. Are you staying overnight? Again, whichever hotel you stay in may have a concession arranged.
Mal

12 Sep 2005

Quote by Mal
Contact the hotel direct. You may find they have some concessions with one of the local NCP car parks which could drastically reduce your cost. Are you staying overnight? Again, whichever hotel you stay in may have a concession arranged.
Mal

Mal,not staying to be in Yorkshire the night before and back in Devon that night so very much a fleeting visit.

12 Sep 2005

JudyTV the car park attendant on Manchester
Mal the hotel car park concessionary agent lol

:lol:
Information this way please :P

12 Sep 2005

The Ramada Jarvis Picadilly Plaza in Manchester has it's own car park! per night I believe!
Residents only, but I believe that includes guests visiting for business funtions... a call to the hotel would no doubt clarify it! No phone numbers please.

12 Sep 2005

Cheers Barewolf.

12 Sep 2005

Quote by barewolf
The Ramada Jarvis Picadilly Plaza in Manchester has it's own car park! per night I believe!
Residents only, but I believe that includes guests visiting for business funtions... a call to the hotel would no doubt clarify it! No phone numbers please.

smart arse! lol

:lol: :lol: :lol: wink

12 Sep 2005

Blimey, am dissappointed.
I wanted to tell you all about the Union, on the corner of Canal Street and read other peeps recommendations.
Car parks? Pah!

12 Sep 2005

Quote by Vix
Blimey, am dissappointed.
I wanted to tell you all about the Union, on the corner of Canal Street and read other peeps recommendations.
Car parks? Pah!

Vix,
You can whisper sweet nothings to me could read the yellow pages to me and it would sound horny. :twisted:

12 Sep 2005

Quote by PlymstockSteve
Blimey, am dissappointed.
I wanted to tell you all about the Union, on the corner of Canal Street and read other peeps recommendations.
Car parks? Pah!

Vix,
You can whisper sweet nothings to me could read the yellow pages to me and it would sound horny. :twisted:
See you soon, sweetie. :love:

12 Sep 2005

Counting the days Vix wink

12 Sep 2005

don't they have a park and ride thing in plymouth rolleyes

13 Sep 2005

I have always parked in Chorlton Steet Multi Story, when travelling to Piccadilly and not really knowing my way around. It is relatively easy to find from the main road and the car park is above the bus station around the corner from The Britannia Hotel (I think). Daily parking rates were reasonable last time I used it and unlike many car parks I have come across in Manchester, the one in Chorlton Street is not Pay & Display, this can be useful if you don't happen to have a pocket full of change.
I don't know how well you know Manchester, but I always find it fairly confusing entering the city. If you do not enter the city in exactly the right direction (no siniggering please :P) it can be really confusing to navigate the various one way streets punctuated by tram tracks. SatNav is very useful in Manchester, but failing this, if you don't know your way around the city, why not use the AA Routeplanner and use the directions to navigate to your destination.

13 Sep 2005

Just a thought, but alternatively you could drive to Altrincham (pronounced, 'Ol-tring-ham') which is just off the Motorway network - M6 J19 and follow the A556 through Mere and Bucklow hill and into Altrincham on the A56 (approx 7 miles and less than 10 mins from M6 - Station signposted once in Atltrincham). Altrincham Station has its own pay & display car park which isn't too expensive. Metro Link (trams) run from Altrincham to Piccadilly Gardens (facing Portland Street and the Ramada Jarvis Hotel) every 6 minutes, and back again of course. Altrincham to Picadilly Gardens on the tram takes about 15 minutes. I think it's about Â£5 return. biggrin

13 Sep 2005

There is also a "park and ride" situated at the old Ladywell Hospital site in Salford. Leave the M602 at exit 2 and follow the signs for Eccles and Hope Hospital. You can then jump on the Metro-link which will drop you right outside the Piccadilly hotel, and costs Â£1-80 return.
thechairman18

13 Sep 2005

Quote by markz
don't they have a park and ride thing in plymouth

Yes but it doesn't go via Central Manchester! :roll:
Thanks everybody for your plenty to mull over.