Manchester Meeting rooms and Venues -
Meeting rooms made for Manchester meetings
From modern purpose-built meeting rooms to the elegant splendour of refurbished Victorian buildings, Manchester offers event planners a wide range of meeting room options. If you’re looking for a conference venue with history, a conference space with style or party venue that’s off the wall, Manchester has a meeting room for you. Budget to boutique, classic to cool, intimate rooms to grandiose halls – the choice of conference spaces is almost unlimited.
With the MEN Arena’s conference space capable of holding 19,000 delegates, Manchester is the perfect host city for the biggest conventions or conferences. The Arena is Europe’s largest indoor concert venue and one of Manchester's largest conference venues, and yet can be converted into a more intimate conference space for 3,000.
Just across the city centre, the Manchester Central Convention Complex in Petersfield provides auditorium seating for 800, 12 break out meeting rooms and 12,250sq m of exhibition space.
This includes a column free space of 10,350 sq m where 4,000 can be hosted in a tiered theatre. Right across the road, The Bridgewater Hotel is a stunningly beautiful conference venue with auditorium seating for 1,875 in its award-winning concert hall.
The University of Manchester – with its captivating blend of modern meeting rooms and Victorian Gothic splendour – is the largest and most varied conference space in the region, with a range of venues and meeting rooms, with plenty of accommodation onsite. There are superb academic conference venues and meeting rooms in Bolton and Salford too – and in the Summer of 2008, Manchester opened a new world-class conference venue - University Place, with a 1,000 seat semi-circular auditorium and 23 meeting rooms and conference space.
From the traditional elegance of The Palace and The Midland to the ultra-modern meeting rooms of the Hilton Manchester Deansgate, close to the bustling bars and nightlife of Deansgate Locks, Manchester offers a huge choice of conference venues and meeting room facilities within hotels. Smart and stylish sophisticated party venues, business hotels with purpose built meeting rooms for budget events, country retreats and boutique hotels – whatever you’re looking for, our Manchester conference venue finding team can help.
Need space to think? Then head out of Manchester’s city centre. Greater Manchester venues offer a great range of locations set in beautiful countryside, prefect for team building and away days. Meeting rooms in Manchester are not just confined to the city centre: Want a fly in, fly out meeting? Head to one of Manchester’s airport hotels, they offer a vast range of meeting rooms and conference spaces. All airport conference venues are a short hop from the terminals, so you will be from runway to meeting room in minutes. Manchester has been described as a meeting room for the world, and with the huge increase in international conference delegates over the past few years it is easy to see why.
From the Theatre of Dreams – Manchester United’s famous Old Trafford home, with its fantastic conferencing, banqueting and meeting rooms - to the City of Manchester Stadium and Lancashire’s cricket ground, Manchester’s stadiums offer you a great choice of conference or party venues that are a little out of the ordinary. Or you could opt for the breathtaking architecture of Urbis, the Imperial War Museum and the Lowry…the unique Gothic style of Manchester Town Hall, or one of the many museums, galleries and country halls and homes. Just tell the conference team what you want, and we’ll find you a really special venue.
Manchester is constantly developing its meeting room and conference offer, including the Light and Park Inn Manchester, both of which opened in 2009. For latest details of meeting rooms and conference space developments and openings, visit the visit the latest news section.