Altrincham is a great all-round location. It’s just twenty-five minutes from Manchester city centre, whilst also being home to a thriving business and retail district in its own right.
When travelling for business, the most popular choice in the past has often been to stay in a hotel. However, more and more people are choosing serviced apartments, and given that they are usually larger, available at a lower price and altogether a more flexible option, perhaps this is no surprise.
Flexibility is one of the main advantages of choosing self-catering accommodation. Staying in one of Situ’s serviced apartments in Altrincham means that you’ll be able to cook in the fully-equipped kitchen but still choose to eat out at a restaurant if you wish. Free Wi-fi is usually available, and you can receive business colleagues and other guests. Some serviced accommodation options offer housekeeping and laundry services, but many properties have laundry facilities in the apartment itself.
Altrincham is eight miles south-west of Manchester city centre in the north-west of England. It’s well-known as a prosperous market town, indeed its southern suburbs of Bowdon, Hale, and Hale Barns are some of the wealthiest areas in the North. Many of the residential streets here really are deserving of the tag ‘Millionaire’s Row’, and the palatial homes house many of Manchester’s football stars and the city’s successful business elite.
Officially, the town is to be found at the southern extremity of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester. However, Altrincham very much feels like part of Cheshire — the county in which it was located until 1974 — especially in its wealthier suburbs. Altrincham has a population of approximately 52,000.
Transport connections are generally very good. Although the train service from the town centre station is infrequent, the tram service more than makes up for that, and there are also additional train services from Manchester Airport. The M56 motorway and the M60 Manchester Orbital intersect close to Altrincham.
There is also the tantalising prospect of HS2 slashing the travel time from Manchester Airport to London to just 63 minutes in the coming years.
Statistics show that the average Altrincham resident is better qualified than the average UK resident. The town is also home to a significantly higher number of managerial and professional households than the national average.
It’s an affluent area, so perhaps you would expect there to be a large number of financial services companies. Manchester Airport is also a major local employer; and technology, distribution and professional services are other sectors that play a significant role in the local economy.
Altrincham was the overall winner of the Sunday Times Best Places To Live award in 2020. The town is no stranger to awards, after its triumph at the Great British High Street Awards two years earlier. The Best High Street award was in recognition of the number of excellent independent retailers that have set up in recent years, offering an alternative to the giant shopping mall, The Trafford Centre, five miles away, which initially threatened to ruin Altrincham’s retail district.
If you’re looking for a cake or snack while in the town centre, then look no further than some of Altrincham's great independent cafés and diners, often serving local artisan producers. Of course there is also a good selection of restaurants in Altrincham too.
For the tourists, Dunham Massey is a classic Georgian red-brick mansion with one of the finest collections of silver at any National Trust property. Outside is a large deer park and one of the best winter flower gardens in the UK.
Whatever you choose to do during your stay, basing yourself in one of Situ’s serviced apartments in Altrincham will give you a private, adaptable, and comfortable space from which to work and from where you can explore all that this varied market town has to offer.
It’s just three miles from the town centre to Manchester Airport, indeed Altrincham’s southern suburb of Hale Barns is immediately adjacent to the airport.
From Manchester, you can fly to around 200 destinations worldwide.
From Altrincham, trains take 20 minutes to reach Stockport and 30 minutes to get to Manchester Piccadilly. In the other direction, you can travel to Northwich and Chester.
Stockport and Manchester have direct connections to London and most of the UK’s major cities.
You may sometimes have to wait up to two hours for a train from Altrincham railway station, so the locals tend to use the Metrolink tram system, often known simply as ‘the Met’, to get to Manchester.
Trams run every 10 minutes during the day and take 25 minutes to reach the city.
From the town centre bus station, you can travel to central Manchester, or to areas in the south of Greater Manchester, such as Stockport, Sale, Didsbury, Wythenshawe, and The Trafford Centre. Buses also go to certain Cheshire towns such as Warrington, Wilmslow, and Macclesfield.
Conveniently, the bus, metro and rail stations are located within the same Interchange building.
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