The Manchester Deansgate Hotel
The Manchester Deansgate Hotel is a hotel in Manchester city centre, England. The hotel is housed within the tall, 47-storey mixed-use skyscraper Beetham Tower, also informally known as the Hilton Tower.
From 2006 to 2018, the skyscraper was the tallest building in Greater Manchester and outside London in the United Kingdom. In November 2018, it was surpassed by the South Tower at Deansgate Square, which is tall.
Occupancy
The four-star hotel occupies floors 1 to 22 and contains 279 bedrooms. The hotel has a four-storey annex, containing a swimming pool, ballroom, conference rooms and a coffee shop. It opened in 2006 as the Hilton Manchester Deansgate, operated by Hilton. IHG assumed operation in 2025 and the hotel was temporarily renamed The Manchester Deansgate Hotel on 18 August 2025. The hotel will be renovated and rebranded as an InterContinental hotel in 2027.The 23rd floor has a cantilevered overhang with two glass windows in its floor, overlooking the ground from the skybar, Cloud 23. It ranks among the world's best bars but only has capacity for 250 people. The bar's most popular cocktail is Mr. Mercer's Cotton Peculiar. Invented by Lancashire chemist John Mercer, mercerisation, the treating of cotton with caustic soda to give it a smooth silken sheen, is a process still used today.
Ian Simpson, the architect of the building, bought the top two floors – the 48th and 49th.