Centrally located Forty-Seven is a new kid on the Manchester hotel scene. But the company behind it, Kro Hospitality, knows what it’s doing, as it also owns longstanding boutique favourite, Velvet Hotel.

It’s clear that you’re somewhere special as soon as you walk into this luxurious hotel’s Edwardian baroque building, where original brass, marble and stained-glass features bring the wow factor.

Muj and Amelia Rana have turned a former textile warehouse in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into a cool boutique bolt hole. Interiors combine exposed brick walls and wooden beams with gilt mirrors, oil paintings and plenty of greenery, including a fake palm tree in the bar.

A highlight of a stay in this central boutique hotel will be lounging in the warm water of its seventh-floor infinity spa pool, gazing at the clock tower of Manchester’s neo-gothic town hall (currently being refurbished).

On the corner of lively Canal Street and Chorlton Street, this former early 20th-century cotton warehouse has been given a fresh lease of life as a sleek hotel.

From its striking art deco building and glitzy interiors to staff dressed in character, Hotel Gotham is both proudly opulent and theatrical.

Book a stay in this charming boutique hotel to relax in the leafy south Manchester suburb of Didsbury.

The size of Native Manchester doesn’t stop its 162 design-led apartments from feeling like chic hideaways, with turquoise and gold kitchenettes, Conran furniture and lashings of exposed brick.

Perfectly located if you’re in Manchester to make the most of its hospitality, this pub with 15 rooms is in the heart of the city centre’s bohemian Northern Quarter, with top-notch bars, restaurants and shopping options on the doorstep.

One of Manchester’s original boutique hotels, Velvet is on the city centre’s vibrant Canal Street and some rooms have balconies overlooking the action.

There’s plenty to do outside of your room in this ultra-cool aparthotel. Pop down to local favourite Foundation Coffee House for a flat white, sign up for a fitness class in its Locker Gym, sip cocktails in the glass-roofed Conservatory Bar or nab a spot in its foliage-backed co-working space.

Whisk your partner away to this sultry retreat where decor is dark and glamorous, and the lighting is atmospheric.

If the thought of having a stocked beer fridge in your shower or an in-room beer tap sound like extras you’d like in a hotel, BrewDog DogHouse Manchester could be your ideal escape.

In ABode Manchester, you’ll be less than a five-minute walk from Piccadilly railway station, on the edge of the Northern Quarter, and less than ten minutes from the shops on Market Street — making this a great base if you’re looking to explore Manchester on foot.

Once a Victorian dolls’ hospital and before that a 19th-century cotton warehouse, Malmaison Manchester is a trusty old-timer on the Mancunian hotel scene.

The smaller sister property of Didsbury House Hotel, Eleven Didsbury Park is a stylish retreat in a south Manchester Victorian townhouse.

Expect industrial chic interiors in this central hotel. Bedrooms have stripped-back plaster walls, its lobby floor is made of a collage of fragmented and discarded marble pieces, and there’s plenty of exposed brick throughout.

Original features in the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel’s grand terracotta building, which dates back to 1890, make it one of the best-looking hotels in the city.