As you may have seen on our Instagram we celebrated Lorraine's birthday in a 4 day bender across 2 cities...
Manchester and Liverpool you were the dream
In this post we'll review where we stayed and how we celebrated!
Manchester
As some of you may know we were both born and majority raised in Preston. Restaurants, bars, shopping is a lot better in Manchester so with it being just an hours drive from home we used to go quite a bit. Apart from going to WHP at New Years Eve Eve for Carl Cox we hadn't been back in years and instead of going abroad thought we'd head up for Lorraine's Birthday!!
The minute we got to MCR Amy demanded her usual from TGI Friday's... a Bubblegum Daiquiri. What we love and miss the most in the North is the lack of judgement to drinking ie. acceptance of our alcoholic ways. It was about 11.45am when we arrived and we went through about 4 cocktails each much to the amusement of the waiting staff - I mean can you think of a better way to kill time before check-in than cocktails?
Last cocktail sipped, we tipsily lugged our cases through the town centre to our apartment. We as always used Booking.com and the apartments name was 'Highstreet Townhouse'.
As you can see from the photos it was beaut and we would 100% stay here next time we come back (soon!). Other than the perfect interior it was also SUCH a good location; literally opposite Arndale (massive shopping centre) and a 15minute walk to Spinningfields/Deansgate - which is where all our fave bars/restaurants were located.
Major benefit of the apartment is that they have a partnership with the restaurant next door so you can get food delivered up with 10% off. That discount also applies to the bar too hollaaaa
Sunday
Lola Los - Tiki themed bar - was pretty live for a sunday night and was playing proper cheesy music which we had ALL the time for lol
Alchemist - okay we have mixed reviews about this place, we've been to the one in London too and our opinion hasn't changed. Cocktails are yum and yes they are beautiful however we don't think the high prices are deserved to be honest. We would go again but not a pre-drinks kind of venue!
Monday - BIRTHDAYYYY
Breakfast at 'Federal Cafe Bar' - cool all day brunch diner, really chilled out plus they were more than happy to make us 3 Espresso Cocktails = brownie points
Australasia - Lovely restaurant offereing food from Australia, Indonesia and Japan plus a massive cocktail menu! We were still full from brunch but had a few bottles of wine and a proper girly catch up!
Went and got our makeup done by a lovely lady we found on Instagram: Cheyannemakeup totally recommend her if you're in MCR she's so lovely
EVENING FESTIVITIES
Dinner at TATTU - was DELICIOUS - it's a modern Chinese Restaurant and Bar. We decided to have a variety of small dishes; tapas style.
Neighbourhood - located in Spinningfields
Albert Schloss - L O V E D it here, was super busy for a Monday night and everyone was drinking so we didn't feel too out of place PLUS we managed to blag a few free shots due to the fact it was a birthday celebration yaaas
I honestly have no idea where the last two bars we went to were to be honest haha it is actually SHOCKING how many people bought us drinks, shots, fishbowls, tower of massive shots, did I say shots - once the girls had screamed "It's her BIRTHDAY!" - Lorraine
No-one even checked Lorraine's ID to make sure it was her bday before spoiling us so now we're tempted to give this trick ago every nightout....
Our Liverpool Trip will be covered in Part 2 - posting later this week loves!
xxx
No comments
Post a Comment