Manchester
United Kingdom.
United Kingdom · 2 districts · 4 vibes
2 handpicked hostels in Manchester, sorted by traveler rating.
Manchester is the UK's music capital and post-industrial cool — Northern Quarter indie bars, Castlefield canal-side calm, the Smiths/Joy Division heritage circuit, and the football tribalism of Old Trafford and the Etihad. 552k residents, 100k students, sideways rain six months a year, and the warmest welcome of any English city. Backpacker base is the NQ for nightlife or Castlefield for canal-side calm.
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Best Hostels in Manchester
2 handpicked hostels in Manchester, sorted by traveler rating.
YHA Manchester
Canal-side YHA on Potato Wharf in Castlefield, the calmest backpacker base in central Manchester. 3178+ reviews, 8.4 rating, an actual cinema room, café-bar with cooked breakfast, pool table and game room — 10 min walk to Deansgate, twenty trains a day to Old Trafford on the Metrolink.
Malacuna Manchester
Right on Hilton Street in the Northern Quarter, Malacuna is the only Manchester hostel inside the indie-bar grid that defines the city's nightlife. 2856+ reviews, 7.8 rating, bar crawls, walking tours and a movie-night cinema room — three minutes from Affleck's Palace and Stevenson Square street art.
Hand-picked guides.
Manchester is a bar-crawl city by genetic destiny — Northern Quarter, Castlefield and the Oxford Road corridor host hundreds of indie venues…
A shared kitchen in Manchester is the difference between £4-a-meal self-catering and a £15 Spinningfields lunch — and both hostels in this g…
Manchester rains for half the year and the indoor evening is a Mancunian art form. Both hostels in this guide ship a film programme — YHA Ma…
Manchester rains 152 days a year and the indoor afternoon is a structural feature of any backpacker stay. Both hostels in this guide ship a …