Serviced apartments and playing happy families

Since I moved away to Manchester University around ten years ago, I’ve been living in a different city to my parents and grandparents.

I still go home to Nottingham to visit, but if my family want to come to Manchester the sleeping arrangements can pose a few issues. Unfortunately, I haven’t got the means - at this stage in my career at least - to afford a four-bedroom house to accommodate them en masse. So, we’ve had to find other solutions. Generally we all club together in the money department to put them up in hotels, B&Bs – and, more recently, serviced apartments. The latter have certainly proved the most successful.

Harmonious family living in serviced apartments

Serviced apartments have enabled me to enjoy the extra quality time with my folks, rather than having to head back to my own digs after drinks or dinner. As serviced apartments charge per apartment, rather than per person, it doesn’t cost a penny more for me to stay with them. And while it’s true that spending too much time with my parents and grandparents can be a recipe for disaster, we all get to enjoy our own space in serviced apartments.

When Mum’s fussing and Dad’s grumblings about the economy all become too much, rather than watching steam coming out of his ears, I can retreat politely to my own bedroom and close the door. In many of the serviced apartments we’ve experienced in Manchester there have even been plasma TVs in the bedrooms. So when Grandad is intent on watching re-runs of Norman Wisdom, and Dad’s insisting on Grand Designs, there’s no cause for contention.

Tags: family accommodation, Serviced Accommodation, Serviced Apartments

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