The Manchester Irish Festival is one of the largest yearly events held in Britain. This festival is not held in one location within Manchester. You can see, hear and participate in the festivities all over the city. As the name reveals, the Manchester Irish Festival is held in order to celebrate the Irish culture.

You can catch this fantastic festival during March each year and the main attractions include the St Patrick’s Parade that sees more than 70 spectacular floats take to the streets of Manchester. Other attractions include the Irish Market, where you can indulge your inner shopaholic.

At this market, you can expect to be delighted and indulged by a myriad of Irish crafts, arts, gifts and tasty eats. This is definitely a festival that is not to be missed, but how do you afford accommodation and have some cash spare for fun? You need to look at serviced apartments Manchester.

Servicing your needs

Serviced apartments Manchester will take care of all your needs and worries at the same time during the Manchester Irish Festival. You can choose from apartments that range from luxury serviced apartments in Manchester to a humble roof over your head while you are in town.

The best part is that you get the same optional services that you would in a hotel such as a maid service and laundry. However, you only pay a fraction of the cost of what hotel accommodation would cost you. This puts money back into your pocket to spend on the festival and having fun in Manchester.

As urbanised as the UK is, as city bound as many people are, there is just something about the wonders of the world of flora and fauna that simply grabs at a primal heartstring. One festival that you can really enjoy if you are a flora lover is the Edinburgh Snowdrop festival.

This is a glorious showcase of Edinburgh’s snowdrops in bloom. There is something about the simplicity and innocence of this delicate little flower that is enchanting and simply too beautiful to miss, especially when you are gazing at fields of these gorgeous blooms.

Blooming fantastic

The snowdrop festival takes place in February and March each year, and it will offer you a great chance to get away from your daily drudgery for a while. You may also think that taking a trip to Edinburgh for something simple, yet enjoyable, is not possible. After all, hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation are expensive, especially during this financial pinch.

Well, then you need to look into the availability of serviced apartments in Edinburgh. These serviced apartments are well worth every penny you spend on them. You can enjoy your stay, in self catered accommodation that will make you feel right at home and cost you only a fraction of what a hotel stay would. Visit our website to see the range of serviced apartments Edinburgh that we have available.

This makes attending the beautiful Edinburgh Snowdrop festival affordable and well worth the effort. You can see these blooming blossoms in the Royal Botanical Gardens, Shepherd’s House garden and in many other natural areas in and around Edinburgh. Take a look at our serviced apartments in Edinburgh. Go ahead, you deserve some time out and some natural beauty.

Jazz music has been around for ages and it is possibly one of the best loved types of music available today. Nowhere will you find a better jazz music festival than in Manchester. The Manchester Jazz Festival is a must-visit for any jazz music lovers in the UK and around the world.

This festival happens in the UK summertime and has grown from its beginnings as a one day event to take up eight fabulous days of nothing but jazz-tastic tunes. The events available include open air as well as indoor concerts. The indoor concerts take place in several venues around Manchester.

This includes St Anne’s Square, Northern Royal College of Music, the Green Room and Albert Square to name but a few. Any jazz lover simply has to come and enjoy the Manchester Jazz Festival. The only problem may be affording the accommodation for 8 days. That is where serviced apartments in Manchester come in handy.

Jazz up your budget

When you choose serviced apartments in Manchester, you can afford to stay longer and have more fun. That is because serviced apartments in Manchester offer you all sorts and styles of accommodation to suit any budget.

They offer you a home away from home so that you will be more than comfortable on longer stays, say for the Manchester Jazz Festival, for instance. The best part is that their price means that you can stay longer and party harder while you are in Manchester because you can afford to. Serviced apartments are the only way to go for visiting the Manchester Jazz Festival.

Serviced City Pads, the professional serviced apartment booking company will be exhibiting at Business North West at Manchester Central (formerly known as GMex). The event takes place on Wednesday October 28th and Thursday October 29th.

Chris Rose of Serviced City Pads commented, “It makes sense for us to be exhibiting at such an event as Business North West. As there are almost 200 businesses exhibiting and nearly 5000 visitors over the 2 days of the event, it is a great opportunity for the Serviced City Pads brand to become more recognised amongst companies who organise corporate accommodation in the north west and beyond. We expect the corprate sector to play a major role in the growth of Serviced C ity Pads in 2010 as we offer a one on one account management services for companies planning business trips. Obviously, because of our expertise in the north west region, corporate serviced apartment bookings in Manchester are really important for us. It is still fair to say that many companies aren’t aware of serviced apartments in Manchester and believe that staying in a hotel in Manchester is the only option for them. Of course, this is not the case.

We are really looking forward to the exhibition to spread the word about serviced apartments and to meet other growing north west companies.

The exhibition is also a great opportunity for networking and there are also a number of keynote speakers from Google, Yorkshire Bank, Warburtons, Ryanir and Ultimo.  We would also hope to speak to these companies apart apartments in Manchester as well as other corprate stays in Manchester.  

Business North West is a free to attend event and is huge in the North west business calendar. Serviced City Pads will be at stand 213 and will be delighted to discuss how we can add a new dimension for your corporate accommodation bookings.

Now, you may be wondering exactly what Ceilidh Culture is. Ceilidh Culture is an event, or rather a timeline of events that takes place in Edinburgh each year. It is a celebration of traditional culture from song, dance and music to story telling.

There is a buffet of events for you to choose from and they take place all over Edinburgh. The next Ceilidh Culture festival takes place from March 26th to April 18th, 2010, so you should start planning already.

Not familiar with the traditional cultural arts? Not a problem, you can find everything out at the festival and you can even participate in introductions to dances and other activities. There really is no excuse for anyone not to come and enjoy the very best that traditional cultural arts have to offer.

Come and stay with us

Because the Ceilidh Culture festival runs over an entire month, it may not be possible for you to experience enough of this cultural magic in just a weekend. You need to stay a bit longer and that normally means incurring hefty accommodation costs. Not so when you stay in serviced apartments in Edinburgh.

Why not get a group of friends together and head to Edinburgh for the Ceilidh Culture festival 2010. That way you can take full advantage of serviced apartments Edinburgh. You pay per night and not per person so it cuts costs to travel as a group. You can stay for much longer in the same level of comfort as a hotel for a fraction of the cost. What are you waiting for; book your serviced apartments in Edinburgh now to avoid disappointment.

Liverpool has so much to offer visitors. Whether it is from a tourist point of view where the cultural interests are numerous, or from a business point of view. Either way, accommodation would be the very first place to start when planning your trip.

We at Serviced City Pads can offer you the very best advice on serviced apartments in Liverpool that would best serve your needs. Whether you need single accommodation or are travelling as a group, we have a lot of options to choose from when deciding on serviced apartments in Liverpool.

Hotels are normally the first type of accommodation folks look at. But consider serviced apartments in Liverpool. In renting a Liverpool serviced apartment, you would have more space to move around and even to cook dinner if you were in the mood.

For the business man, this type of Liverpool accommodation would offer privacy and space to entertain business clients in a more casual and comfortable way, and can be found as close to conference centres as is convenient. For the family, the kids would not be confined to one little room like a hotel and you would have space to relax after a busy day out. For the celebrity, luxury serviced apartments in Liverpool provide much needed privacy where you can relax.

The biggest bonus of all is that renting a Liverpool serviced apartment is actually cheaper than going to a hotel, and is just as smart and upmarket as most hotels. So you can stretch your pounds a little further by saving on accommodation and having more money to spend on the things you enjoy most.

Why not check out Liverpool Music week from 1st November to 28 November. Now in its seventh year, the festival has attracted some big names, such as The enemy, Kasabian, Reverend and the makers and many more………….. Being such a big hit every year, the festival has become a nationally recognised event and highlight of the live music calender. Look out for dozens of free festival shows in the weeks leading up to the festival across lots of Liverpools city-centre venue’s.

If your staying in Liverpool for the festival, why not stay at one of the amazing serviced apartments.  Serviced apartments in Liverpool are the new alternative to hotels, which offer the convenience of self-catering services and a large living area for a more ‘at home’ feeling, additionally many serviced apartments can accommodate up to 15 people.

For all your self catered accommodation needs visit the Liverpool apartments page on our website here - Liverpool Serviced Apartments – or call our dedicated booking team on 0844 335 8866

As you can guess, the Mind Body Spirit Northern Festival has a lot to do with your wellbeing – both inner and physical. This is one of the most highly respected yearly events held in Manchester. This festival celebrates fresh ideas and new ways of thinking, as well as healthy living through different types of exercise such as meditation and yoga.

Now, while yoga and meditation may have been made popular in recent years through the stars of Hollywood, this festival has been around since 1977. The event takes place in the Manchester Central Centre each year and is a must visit for anyone who is interested in their holistic wellbeing.

While the three-day event is in full swing, you can visit and explore more than 100 stalls. Each stall is devoted to natural healing, healthy living and other holistic wellbeing ideas and crafts. Along with that you can also watch and participate in various shows, you can be entertained by various mind and body relaxations or enjoy musical performances.

Not long but too long

The Mind Body Spirit Northern Festival in Manchester is only three days long, not long by festival standards. However, when you consider the costs of hotel or bed and breakfast accommodation, it is too long to be affordable for many across the UK.

What you need is serviced apartments Manchester. These serviced apartments in Manchester offer you a highly affordable option for staying in Manchester for the festival. Not only that, but they are so comfortable that you can continue the relaxation and spiritual healing in privacy in your serviced apartments Manchester once the festivities are over for the day.

With the upcoming visit of Manchester United to Anfield this coming weekend, it is proving to be a tough start to the season for Rafa Benitez’s team who last night suffered their fourth consecutive defeat of the season at the hands of Lyon in the Champions League, with Lyons winning goal being scored deep into injury time which must put question marks against Liverpool FC qualifying for the last 16 of this season’s Champions League competition. This defeat follows hard on the heels of the now famous beachball incident which led to defeat at Sunderland. With the coming visit of Manchester United to Liverpool this coming weekend Liverpool need to bounce back to maintain any sort of challenge in the English Premier League.

It is clear that the Liverpool economy (much the same as in Manchester) is driven by foreign LFC supporters staying in Liverpool to visit Anfield, and if the team do slip out of this years Champions League at such an early stage it would have a detrimental effect on that local economy. This is particularly true when you condifer the additional away team supporters that flood into the city, renting apartments in Liverpool, visiting restaurants, going shopping etc. The issue is exacerbated when you think that these Champions League fixtures are played during midweek when the occupancy levels of serviced accommodation in Liverpool is at it’s lowest.

Serviced City Pads take many serviced apartment bookings from Liverpool FC supporters who travel to see their team play from afar (particularly Scandinavia and Ireland), so less games at Anfield each season will definitely hit business. If there are less people staying in the city then it means less tables booked at restaurants, less sold in the shops of Liverpool One.

Sir Alex Ferguson and his Manchester United team will be looking to go in for the killl on Sunday. There isn’t a free bed in the city this weekend and that just goes to show how important football is to the North West economy.

If you are planning to book a hotel in Liverpool or indeed a serviced apartment then check out www.servicedcitypads.com or call the reservations team on 0844 335 8866. They will be delighted to help with your accommodation requirements.

As well as Liverpool and Manchester, Serviced City Pads have apartments listed across UK locations (in cities such as Edinburgh, Birmingham and Glasgow). The apartments are perfect palces to stay if you are visiting a city for a short break or staying as part of a corporate contract.

Serviced City Pads, the Liverpool based serviced apartment booking company, has this week launched a new version of it’s website which can be found at www.servicedcitypads.com.

The company, which has grown the listings of serviced apartments on it’s site to cover cities such as Manchester, Edinburgh, London, Birmingham and Bristol (as well as Liverpool which is the city where the first apartments were listed in 2007).

Chris Rose, Director at Serviced City Pads said, “We have worked closely again with Click Consult and are delighted with the increased functionality that the new site gives our booking customers. It was also equally important for us to ensure that our online booking system was simplified to make sure that our Apartment Operators found it easy to work with our system. This is really important as the long term goal is to have all of the serviced apartments listed on our site available to book online. It is what our customer expects and we feel that the simplification of the booking system is a  step in the right direction towards us achieving this goal.

Visits to www.servicedcitypads.com continue to grow as do the bookings that we are taking from guests in a number of UK cities.

We are delighted the way that things are going and the new website is a great step forward for us.”

If we can help with any of your accommodation requirements, whether that is a hotel in Liverpool, an aparthotel in Edinburgh or an apartment in Mancehster please give us a call on 0844 335 8866. We will be delighted to help.