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Is Great John Really Great?

September 12, 2005 at 11:13 AM | 0 Comments

Newfangled UK B&B's are hot.  According to The Times Great John Street Hotel in Manchester thinks it is among the hottest.

Unfortunately for the Great John, Times writer Will Hide does not agree:

My room -- number 39 -- was gloomy and faced a new apartment block being built yards away. The lavatory didn't flush properly, part of the basin tap fell off (as did a drawer knob), and there was no air-conditioning -- so on a hot August day the choice was between opening the windows and listening to builders outside, or keeping them shut and sweltering.

Perhaps Great John Street is taking time to settle in. I'd like to go back in a year -- as long as I eat out and stay in a room at the front, maybe I'll think it is one of Manchester's coolest places. It clearly has pretensions to be so.

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·   Great John Street Hotel, Manchester [Times Online]
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