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The historic Glasgow building we transformed into 64 luxe apartments

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Our beautifully furnished and fully equipped apartments offer a hotel-style service including a 24-hour reception and concierge, on-site breakfast options and weekly cleaning service if you plan to stay with us for a while.

Perfectly placed to explore the city, we’ve got Queen Street Station on our doorstep and the all-important Style Mile. Before you leave for the day make sure to stop for some breakfast on the ground and basement floors at the infamous and much loved Anchor Line restaurant.

We hope to see you soon at our stunning boutique hotel in Glasgow.

What are Aparthotels and Serviced Apartments?

Along with aparthotels, you may also have heard of residential hotels, where people usually stay for months.

As for Native, we’re prefer to call ourselves aparthotels. When you stay with Native, you don’t just get award winning design, central locations or stunning architecture, you get comfort, convenience, and everything you need to live.

What is a serviced apartment?

A serviced apartment is a self-contained furnished apartment within a residential building that is professionally managed and available for short or long stays. It comes with a fully equipped kitchen, laundry facilities and other services that enable guests to live, not just stay.

We set up home in eclectic buildings of all styles, shapes and sizes, from grand Victorian mews houses to vast Mancunian warehouse conversions. Every Native building is unique so you may or may not have an on-site reception team to welcome you and get you checked-in. To offer privacy we offer a weekly clean, rather than a daily clean that’s provided by hotels.

For a kitchen whiz or food lover, it’s ideal. After all, room service has got nothing on shopping at local markets and independent shops, and cooking up a storm in your very own kitchen, which we’ve furnished with everything from coffee cups to corkscrews.

What else can you expect in your serviced apartment? As dishwasher, washer dryer, lounge area, private bathroom, TV, weekly housekeeping and all utilities included in your stay e.g. water and electricity.

If you’re travelling on business, it couldn’t be better. No waiting around for executive lounges to open, paying for Wi-Fi or being interrupted by officious hotel staff when you’re trying to meet a deadline. Instead, you’ve got peace and quiet, free Wi-Fi and space to live, as well as work.

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Native Manchester: The Sunday Times Award Winning Hotel

The rooms

When you’re ready to head up to your room, “the lift whisks you up to what might be the swankiest hotel corridors on the planet”, according to Matthew Davis at the Sunday Times.

All our apartments are airy and spacious, boasting rich, gorgeous quality furnishings and décor, a pantry stocked with a few locally sourced goodies, and fully equipped kitchens with everything you need to whip up a proper meal. The plush Gainsborough beds mean a lie-in is inevitable and the rainfall showers are too luxurious not to linger in.

As for the penthouses, they have “a deco/maritime feel, with huge mirrors, velvet chairs you can’t stop stroking and a sprawling private terrace with Peak District views. These rooms start at £315 a night, a steal if there are four of you.”

 

The city

We’re proud to have breathed new life into a building that’s Manchester through and through.

“This has been an extraordinary opportunity to take one of the great icons of Manchester’s industrial past and turn it into a major cultural and social destination for the city,” said Native Founder and CEO Guy Nixon. “Manchester is a thriving, culturally rich and fast expanding city so it seems apt that we are unveiling the new breed of Native’s aparthotels here at Ducie Street Warehouse.”

Intrigued? You can read the full article here or the coverage in the Manchester Evening News.

Or just come and stay. We think you’ll love it too.

See it for yourself at Native Manchester and find out more with us.

Manchester’s top 10 restaurants

I’m in the mood for…the avant-garde.

Named in honour of Manchester’s cotton-trading heritage, Cottonopolis serves up Asian-inspired small plates like dim sum and sushi in a Grade II listed building, all alongside a delectable selection of sakes.

I’m in the mood for… civilised dining.

The Restaurant at the CULTUREPLEX’s full service restaurant. Its approach will be to offer uncomplicated good food, drink and service with common sense and good taste. Menus by Chef Director Blaine Duffy.

I’m in the mood for…top notch tapas.

Canto’s celebrated older sister, El Gato Negro, might well serve the best tapas you’ll ever have outside Spain. It’s also worth booking the chef’s table, where you can enjoy the theatre of the open kitchen while you savour every bite.

I’m in the mood for…variety.

Mackie Mayor is a gorgeous Grade II listed indoor food market that boasts ten exceptional eateries under its brand new glass roof, with everything from Taiwanese bao to some of the finest pizza in town.

I’m in the mood for…a big, beefy burger.

Make sure you’re hungry before you venture to Almost Famous for some of Manchester’s biggest and best burgers. Pulled pork, BBQ chicken and deep fried mac ’n’ cheese await, along with beers, cocktails and shakes.

I’m in the mood for…Mexican with a twist.

Visit Mexico via Vegas with big, bold burritos, burgers, tacos and steaks from the team behind Almost Famous. At Luck Lust Liquor & Burn, the ingredients are so fresh that they even make the guacamole at your table.

I’m in the mood for…a hangover cure.

If brunch is your thing, head straight to Moose Coffee and join the queue – trust us, it’s worth the wait. Enjoy classic Benedicts and sure-fire remedies for the morning after the night before, like the Lone Star Moose meat-fest.

I’m in the mood for…understated elegance.

Yuzu is a little haven of Japanese calm that’s tucked away amidst the bustle of Chinatown and has been gaining country-wide accolades since The Guardian’s food critic, Jay Rayner, raved about it. Be sure to book ahead – it fills up fast.

I’m in the mood for…the perfect pizza.

A little taste of Napoli in Ancoats, Rudy’s is a neighbourhood favourite, serving brilliant pizzas (at brilliant prices) alongside a lovingly selected craft beer and wine list. Perfect for an easy-going night out.

And, one more for luck (because we couldn’t pick just ten)…

I’m in the mood for…everything!

Manchester’s legendary street food festival now has a permanent home under the railway arches behind Piccadilly train station: GRUB at Fairfield Social Club. Fridays and Saturdays see the place burst into life with food, drink, events and live music, and they even have a vegan day every Sunday.

Take a trip to Manchester and create your own foodie festival.

Stories of the Anchor Line Building from the locals that worked there

Leading our guests of honour down memory lane wasn’t difficult, since we had kept so many of the original features. Features like the luxury ocean liner décor that has filled the headquarters since it was built, as well as glazed tiles, terrazzo flooring, cruise ship inspired carpets, wood panelled walls and fireplaces.

78-year-old Eva Morgan remembered it well, having started working as a shorthand typist in 1959 at the Donaldson Line offices on the second floor.

“I had many wonderful years,” said Eva. “You would start at 9.30am and work until 5pm. You would get a four-shilling lunching voucher – which was a lot back then – and four weeks’ holiday a year.”

We even uncovered a love story when Eva told us how she met her husband Norman there. He passed her a note, asking to take her out for a drink after work. She said yes, and they married in 1966.

Maureen Reilly brought a collection of precious photographs with her, to show us what the building once looked like. She married her beloved husband here, and had her wedding photos taken in front of the beautiful fireplace that we fully restored and now resides in our premium one bedroom apartment, 103. It was a wonderful moment when she was able to recreate the photo, all these years later.

On the date of her anniversary, we invited Maureen and her sister back to Native a second time, to experience a night’s stay. Having lived in the building while her Father worked as the Head Caretaker there, Maureen recalled the bustling atmosphere that filled their home.

“Mum was always inviting our family and friends over for lunch so it was very busy and social. We loved being up on the rooftop sunbathing or round the kitchen table together. Dad loved his job too, it was a happy time when we lived here.”

John Duffy, 80, told us about his time as a customs clerk, when he would be chauffeured to Yorkhill Dock to collect the captain’s articles and make sure everything was running smoothly.

“It was a great place,” he said. “I thought it was sad that Anchor Line themselves had to move out because it’s such a beautiful building and it was built specifically for Anchor Line, so it’s nice to see it’s being put to good use now.”

We couldn’t agree more, John.

Intrigued? You can find out more about the Anchor Line building from Scottish national treasure and TV historian Neil Oliver.

Neil Oliver visits Native Glasgow from Native on Vimeo.

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Uncover the history of Ducie Street Warehouse

In the vast warehouses of Ducie Street, which tower seven stories high … are stored immense quantities of all kinds of merchandise, lying there in safety awaiting the owners’ instruction. The London Warehouse (as it is commonly called) is a building of equal height … and here the bulk of the general goods to and from London, Southampton and other ports is handled.

— Per Rail: Transportation is the Life Blood of Commerce by Knapp Drewett and Sons, for the Great Central Railway, 1913.

The canals.

With Manchester Piccadilly Station just a few minutes away, moving huge quantities of food, cotton and other products across the country was pretty convenient. Some of the warehouses in the area had direct access to the canal, with barges docking at each building so that goods could be heaved on and off the boats. Some even had hoists powered by enormous waterwheels, so you can imagine the noise, hustle and bustle of the area at the time.

Ducie Street Warehouse today.

Of course, a lot has changed since then and Ducie Street Warehouse is the last of the four MS&LR warehouses left, still standing proudly by the canal.

Ducie Street Warehouse to this day still has a huge amount of its original features including huge vaulted ceilings, riveted wrought-iron girders and exposed brickwork. We’ve taken this gloriously high-ceilinged and light-filled building and made the most of all its features. We’ve added a gorgeous glass atrium roof, so you can see the sky – even from the foyer. We’ve painted the steel beams powder blue and added features in gold to set off the rich colours of the apartment décor, giving it a modern industrial-chic twist.

Native Manchester aparthotel is a fantastic base for exploring the city, so why not make the most of your stay with our tips on how to spend 48 hours in Manchester.

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