Ibis Budget Manchester Centre Pollard Street

This hotel is absolutely awful. It's even smaller than a UK en-suite dorm room. The bathroom light is motion-sensored, are they afraid you'll fall asleep on the toilet or something? All the lights are terribly designed too – it's all one-button control. If you want to leave just a small light on, you'll find yourself blinded. It's either all on or all off, completely lacking any human touch. A 26-inch suitcase barely fits, and it's not even cheap. It's not close to the train station either; they say it's 700 meters, but it ended up being over a kilometer. Pushing a ton of luggage late at night on a dark, uneven road almost made me break down. The lobby doesn't even have a sofa or water. I went to use the restroom in the lobby and found it also had a motion-sensored light; I had to move around and make noise halfway through. It was so ridiculous it was funny. The mango sticky rice in the picture is from a place called Trythai – supposedly a dessert. It was incredibly sickly sweet, to the point of being inedible. Manchester itself left a really bad impression. There's nothing to do, nothing to see. I never want to go back to this terrible city.