Location: Manchester
Top Things to do in Manchester
Things to do in Manchester, England: The Best Fun Activities & Games
Famed for its soccer team and music scene, which has produced the likes of the Smiths and Oasis, this center for sports and the arts is a down-to-earth and friendly city. The so-called Capital of the North has overcome industrial decline, bombing (in WWII and by the IRA) to become a confident and cosmopolitan city of well over two million. It is well served by a bus and light rail network. Top attractions include the Lowry art complex, arcade Affleck's Palace and Canal Street gay village.
Restaurants in Manchester
1. Rock Over Climbing
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 74 reviews
Situated 300 metres from Manchester Victoria Station, Rock Over Climbing is one of the country's largest and best indoor bouldering/ climbing centres. We are dedicated to providing the best bouldering / climbing experience for everyone. Our friendly helpful staff have a wealth of experience and are all motivated and passionate about delivering the best climbing experience to everyone in a safe environment.
Reviewed By J8990JZwaynep
I took my 2 year old for her Cheeky monkey session today and she thoroughly enjoyed herself. Staff were friendly and the facilities are good. There is plenty of wall area for climbing and the kids soft area is great for when you’ve finished your session as you can stay for as long as you want. Tom our instructor was friendly and great with the kids. Looking forward to going back and would recommend to any parent thinking of getting their kids into climbing. lol
2. Parthian Climbing Manchester
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 424 reviews
We are Parthian Climbing Manchester | Harrogate | Reading | Southampton Drop us a call or visit us online to book your first climbing experience.
Reviewed By LittleMissStargazer - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Our kids (8 and 10) have been coming here for over a year. The staff are great with them, they give lots of encouragement, work to each child’s strengths, and the teaching is really good. The facilities are excellent - the height & size of the old church building means it’s a great & varied challenge for climbers of all ages & experience. Coffee is great too! Highly recommend.
3. Breakout Manchester
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 2,954 reviews
A unique experience that will leave you wanting more. Breakout is a real life escape room game. Using common sense + brain power you have 60 minutes to escape a locked room. If you are looking for a unique and fun activity then this is for you. Teams of 2 - 5 friends, family, co - workers or puzzle enthusiast can attempt to escape. It is a great team building, hen / stag or birthday activity.
Reviewed By soraiaa655
Amazing time breaking out of the sabotage room with friends. Djamila was an amazing game operator, super funny and approachable :D Definitely coming back.
4. Lockin Real Escape
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 823 reviews
Lockin is a reality escape game designed to provide players a real-life exciting escape game experience. It is a unique and interactive live puzzle event where teams solve mysteries and clues within a time limit. Players will be locked in one of our theme rooms. The theme room will be locked and the players have 60 minutes to crack the puzzles and gather clues using their intelligence, logical thinking and observation skills to make their way out!
5. Lucardo
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 2,273 reviews
Reviewed By TomWalk24
Booked for a group of 6 people, staff were attentive throughout Kyle especially as he greeted us and made sure we had an excellent time there, we did the Virginia house room, I would highly recommend as it was tons of fun and luckily we managed to escape! Definitely will be back to try the other rooms.
6. The Crystal Maze LIVE Experience, Manchester
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 4,316 reviews
Located right between the Museum of Science and Industry and the Bonded Warehouse on the St John’s Development, The Crystal Maze LIVE Experience is the ultimate team experience. Book online today and find out whether your team is good enough to make our leader boards! It’s the oh-so-popular 90s TV show brought to genuinely immersive, 3D life. More importantly, it’s a brilliant excuse to run around wildly, shout yourselves hoarse, solve all sorts of problems and challenges and, best of all, celebrate in some wacky satin bomber jackets. All this, with your friends – who could ask for anything more?
Reviewed By 382leanned - Welshpool, United Kingdom
What a fantastic fun thing to do...it was just like TV... Our quiz master CRYSTAL was amazing, so energetic and really makes the experience very real...didn't want it to end!!
7. The Range
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 46 reviews
The Range Spinningfields brings the world’s greatest golf courses and premium clubhouse experience to the heart of Manchester. An indoor golf club offering the perfect blend of luxury and convenience using the latest in virtual reality and launch monitor technology with five state-of-the-art simulators. The Range is open to members and non-members and simulators cost £75 per hour when booking as a non-member. The Range also plays home to Albatross & Arnold, a beautiful bar & lounge to enjoy lunch, dinner, after-work drinks and post-golf night caps. We use the industry leading simulator and launch monitor from Foresight Sports. The GC2 with Head Measurement Technology (HMT) collects data direct from the golf ball, giving you exceptional levels of accuracy in both simulation and swing analysis. The crystal clear high definition simulator has over 100 of the best courses in the world available to play. All this can be enjoyed whilst indulging in premium cocktails and cuisine.
8. Whistle Punks Urban Axe Throwing
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 391 reviews
We think Whistle Punks Urban Axe Throwing is the most satisfying and social day or night out you’ll ever have. And we’ve tried a few. You’ll be slinging axes side by side against your friends or colleagues, hitting bulls-eyes and cheering on your mates. All backed up with great music and atmosphere and a chance to socialise between throws. Our experienced throwing coaches will get your throwing like a pro in no time. Then once you’ve got the hang of it we’ll take you and your group through a tournament until the king or queen of axes is crowned. Check out our covid safety info: https://whistlepunks.com/covid-safety/
Reviewed By AlibobsGuard - Manchester, United Kingdom
I never thought axe throwing would be such a laugh! Caz was our a great instructor, she was very patient and gave lots of different instructions on how to throw the axes more effectively! There was plenty of time for training and the whole group had time to get to grips with the axes! After training its tournament time!! Caz paired us up with people we didnt know and we had a tournament to gain points! Even if you feel a bit shy Caz was very in tune and paired people up well. Lots of cheering, shouting, slow clapping was encouraged and in all it was a great session. There are lots of opportunities to take photos including action shots and Caz offered to take photos at the end of the tournament. If you arrive early theres games to play while you wait. Wear a jumper as it is a bit cold to start with but you soon warm up!! Thanks for a great first time experience Caz, you were great!
9. Virtual Hideout Manchester
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 880 reviews
Virtual Hideout is a virtual reality gaming centre located in the heart of Manchester. We offer room scale VR with over 100 different games and experiences. Our VR hosts will tailor the sessions to your gaming needs, ensuring you get the most out of your sessions :)
Reviewed By Z4583UOjohnm - York, United Kingdom
Convinced my fiancée (26) to have a go at Virtual Hideout, since the weather was looking horrific for our weekend break, and we were looking for fun things to do indoors. I've (28) wanted to get my hands on a VR set for a while, my partner had no idea what VR even was. We had great fun on the beginners games, and Brooke (our guide) was really helpful suggesting games for us and tweaking the experience towards what each of us felt comfortable playing. We both left with our legs feeling wobbly after jumping off a virtual skyscraper (believe me that it's far harder than you anticipate to pluck up courage to step off), and my partner is far more open to the prospect of me buying VR equipment for home! Definitely recommend giving it a go, and we felt it was really reasonably priced for an hour of entertainment in central Manchester! Well done guys.
10. Escape The Van
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 88 reviews
Escape The Van is the mobile Escape Room that comes to you! Based in South/Central Manchester we offer a new and unique escape experience of up to 60 minutes for 2-5 people for each individual booking. Bookings can be made consecutively for more people. As long as we can park in a suitable, free and safe location (we can advise) we can operate, allowing tourists and visitors to also benefit!
Reviewed By CarlG1164
This was a fantastic escape experience. We chose the largest of the options, for a 1 hour max experience. Booking this for a birthday, where we couldn't currently go to an escape room location, this was a fantastic surprise to have turn up on the drive, and well worth the money for the ease and accessibility of the experience. The guy who brought the van to us was really helpful and informative. The van was surprisingly spacious for four of us to explore and solve puzzles in with no issue and there was an amazing range of puzzles to test us throughout the van. It was definitely taxing, although we managed to escape, and for the size and space available, it can definitely be rated highly as an escape room experience. They were also very good with the clues - helpful and still cryptic, without being too on the nose, or too complicated when we has a few struggles with some of the more difficult puzzles. Particularly during the current covid circumstances, where we felt it might not be possible to go to an escape room site, it was fantastic that the escape room could be brought to our door, in a safe and clean way. They were very clear in explaining how the room was set up and health and safety and ensured that we could access cleaning products before we went in and throughout, and were very clear on mask wearing, and being able to step out if we had any worries, which we didn't need to. I can highly recommend them as an experience.
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