The hotel is ideally located just 1 km from Manchester Airport, outside the city centre (15 minutes' drive) and near the beautiful Cheshire countryside offering its guests the best of both worlds. It is an ideal base to explore the Cheshire countryside or to visit the shops and sights of Manchester city centre. The Trafford centre (shopping centre) and restaurants, bars and nightlife in Hale are all approximately 15 minutes' drive from the hotel, while Liverpool is 40 minutes by car and the beach in Southport is an hour and 10 minutes' drive. The bus and train stations at Manchester airport are 5 minutes' drive from the hotel and other nearby airports include Liverpool John Lennon (49 km away), Blackpool (92 km away), Doncaster/Sheffield-Robin Hood (117 km), East Midlands (132 km) and Birmingham International (141 km).Situated in its own private grounds, this family-friendly airport hotel offers 215 guest rooms as well as high-speed wireless Internet access (with fee), a café, bar, restaurant and car parking (with fee). Guests are welcomed to the air-conditioned conference hotel in a lobby with 24-hour reception and check-out services, a hotel safe, currency exchange facilities and lift access to the upper floors. Business guests will appreciate the conference facilities, and room and laundry services are offered for additional fees.All of the executive rooms are equipped with double or king-size beds with luxury linen, fluffy pillows, down comforters and thicker mattresses. High-speed Internet access is available in all bedrooms. An en suite bathroom with shower, bathtub and hairdryer, a direct dial telephone, satellite TV, in-room safe, radio, minibar, tea and coffee making facilities and individually regulated air conditioning and heating also feature in all rooms as standard.