Welcome to the Grafton Hotel. This clean, tourist class hotel is located only minutes to the Manchester Royal Infirmary and the Universities. Our spacious bar/lounge, offers a comfortable, relaxed atmosphere and provides the ideal venue to meet business colleagues or friends. Comfortable beds, telephones, remote control television and tea and coffee makers are just a few of amenities in the comfortable rooms. Manchester's symbol is a bee, representing the city as a "hive of activity"-a reputation hard-earned during its gritty cotton-milling era in the early 19th century. But Manchester's days as a poster child for sooty industrialism ended several generations ago. Mancunians' (or "Mancs, as some of the area's 2.5 million residents call themselves) most recent history is marked by the triumphs of their famous soccer team, Manchester United, and by the excitement of a stunning building boom.