What a long work stay in Manchester actually costs: 14, 28 and 90 nights
Real prices from our own apartments at a fortnight, a month and three months, plus the one thing that changes the per-night rate more than anything else. If you are booking a work assignment, start here.
If you are booking somewhere to live in Manchester for a few weeks, you have probably already found that nobody will give you a straight answer on price. Hotels quote a nightly rate that changes every time you load the page. Apartment sites quote a weekly figure that turns out to exclude the cleaning fee.
So here are our actual numbers. These came from our own booking system on 8 November 2026, for an arrival on Monday 11 January 2027, for two people. You can check them yourself on each property page.
What our apartments cost at 14, 28 and 90 nights
| Apartment | 14 nights | 28 nights | 90 nights |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte House 201, Chinatown | £2,349 (£160/night) | £3,955 (£137/night) | £13,018 (£143/night) |
| Charlotte House 401, Chinatown, sleeps 8 | £2,735 (£184/night) | £4,540 (£157/night) | £14,891 (£164/night) |
| Rolls Crescent, Hulme | £2,365 (£159/night) | £4,030 (£139/night) | £15,459 (£170/night) |
| St Johns Manor | Minimum stay longer than 14 nights on these dates | £3,317 (£112/night) | £14,832 (£163/night) |
Totals include cleaning and all taxes. Prices move with demand, so treat these as a guide and get a live quote for your own dates.
The 28-night cliff edge
Look at the middle column. Every apartment is cheaper per night at 28 nights than at 14, and not by a small margin. Charlotte House 201 drops from £160 a night to £137. That is not demand doing something clever. It is a deliberate rule: we apply a 15% discount at 28 nights and over, on direct bookings only.
So if your assignment is 24 nights, price 28 as well before you book. There is a decent chance the longer stay costs less in total, and you get four extra nights for nothing. That sounds like a sales line. It is arithmetic, and you can test it on the site in about a minute.
Why 90 nights is not three times 28
The other thing in that table catches people out. Per-night prices go back up at 90 nights, even with the long-stay discount applied. Rolls Crescent is £139 a night at 28 nights and £170 at 90.
The reason is calendar, not policy. A 90-night stay starting in January runs through to April. January is quiet and cheap in Manchester. April is not. The long stay discount still applies to every night, but it is discounting higher spring rates.
This matters if you are choosing between a three-month booking now and a rolling monthly one. A single 90-night booking locks your price. Three separate 28-night bookings do not, and each new one gets priced at whatever the calendar says that month. Neither is automatically better. Lock in if you think rates are rising, stay flexible if your end date is genuinely uncertain.
What to actually compare against a hotel
Do not compare nightly rates. They are not measuring the same thing. Work out the real monthly cost of each.
Food. A hotel room with a kettle means eating out twice a day. A kitchen does not mean you will cook every night, but it does mean breakfast, a few dinners and a fridge. Over 28 days the difference is real money, and it is money no booking engine shows you.
Laundry. Hotel laundry is charged per item and it is not cheap. A washing machine in the flat is the single most underrated thing about an apartment on a long stay.
Space to work. A desk that is not the end of a bed, and a sofa that is not the bed. If you are working in the evenings this is the difference between an assignment you tolerate and one you do not.
The cleaning fee. Ours is a one-off, between £115 and £180 depending on the apartment. Over a fortnight that is £8 to £13 a night. Over three months it is under £2. Any apartment quoting you a nightly figure that excludes cleaning is understating short stays more than long ones.
Weekly rates versus total. Ask for the total for your exact dates, including every fee and tax. If a provider will not give you one number, that is information too.
Where to stay depends on why you are here
If you are working in the city centre, Charlotte House in Chinatown puts you a few minutes from Piccadilly and Deansgate on foot. If you are at MediaCity or out towards Trafford, Hulme and Old Trafford are an easier commute and usually a little cheaper.
Our neighbourhood guide goes through the areas properly if you do not know the city yet.
Minimum stays, and the thing to check first
One practical warning, visible in the table above. St Johns Manor would not price a 14-night stay on those January dates because its minimum was longer. Minimum stays vary by property and by date, and they run longer in December and over event weekends.
If your dates are fixed and short, check the minimum before you fall in love with a particular flat. If the minimum is longer than your stay, send us the dates anyway. We can often do something that the calendar will not.
The short version
Get a total, not a nightly rate. Price 28 nights even if you need 24. Expect a longer booking across a season change to cost more per night than the same length in one quiet month. And count the kitchen and the washing machine as part of the price, because they are.
Browse the apartments and put your real dates in. The price you see is the price, including cleaning and taxes, with nothing added at checkout.
