The Birch Hotel is a Greater Manchester business hotel in Heywood near Manchester Airport and Central Manchester.

The COURTESY WORLD leisure group owned Birch Hotel offers the Manchester Airport package with FREE parking

and weekend leisure deals as well as Friday Cabaret entertainment evenings.

IF YOU like shopping, you will think you have discovered paradise in one of the biggest shopping centres in the whole of Europe, which is based in north Trafford. The Trafford Centre is a vast shopping and entertainment complex.

There are more than 300 shops at the imposing centre, which cost £700 million to build and stands on a huge site alongside the M60 Motorway and close to the Manchester Ship Canal. It houses over 280 different retailers and is filled with every chain store imaginable including Mango, Muji, H & M. Manchester is home to the only Selfridges outside London.

Its dome, which is reminiscent of St Paul's Cathedral, is a striking new addition to the Trafford landscape.

With around 7,000 people working in the centres shops, leisure facilites and catering outlets, it is one of the borough's biggest employers. Its Festival Village alone has 90,000 square feet of shopping space. Its 20-screen, 4,000 seat cinema complex was the biggest in the whole of Britain when it opened in September 1998. It has already held UK film premieres.

The centre has themed areas, with the cinema complex being part of the Orient Leisure Dome, a 400,000 square foot area including bars, restaurants, fast food outlets and other eateries. Then there are the two main shopping malls, Peel Avenue and Regent Crescent, which include Debenhams and Selfridges. The centre has thousands of free car parking spaces and can also be reached by buses, some of which run from stations outside Metrolink tram stations.

Enter the hotel website through the picture gallery to view all the facilities Birch Hotel has to offer.

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Location map of Trafford Park, Manchester