“Social climbing is de rigueur at Manchester’s ABode hotel: the higher your room, the more lavish the experience. Moving through the floors from Comfortable to Envious, the apartment-style rooms of Fabulous on Fifth are the piece de resistance. Converted from a Victorian cotton merchant's warehouse and packed with period character, the hotel retains the high ceiling and Grade II-listed staircase of the original structure. Downstairs the MC Café Bar attracts laptop luggers and yummy mummys in equal measure while the lower-level Michael Caines restaurant is more businesslike with an adjoining cocktail bar and a popular grazing menu.”
