Manchester - Day 4 (Old Trafford Stadium Tour & Museum - Manchester City Centre)

We had our breakfast at McD on our fourth day in Manchester. It's just 3 minutes walk from our hotel and weather was cold and windy. I like the cold temperature and it was below 10'C in the morning! I had cheesy bacon flatbread and hot chocolate while my partner had the ultimate breakfast wrap. My cheesy bacon flatbread was dry and the cheese was not great. At times it's tough to bite through. In another words, my cheesy bacon flatbread looks so innocent and pathetic.

On the other hand, my partner's ultimate breakfast wrap looks more appetizing than mine. The ultimate breakfast wrap comes with a pork sausage patty, egg, bacon, hash brown, and cheese, all wrapped in a tortilla with your choice of brown sauce or ketchup.

McD

Hot chocolate, orange juice, cheesy bacon flatbread and breakfast wrap - £7.17

Closer look at the ultimate breakfast wrap

Address:

McDonald's

36/38 Oxford Street,

Manchester

After breakfast, we still have another 3 hours before our Old Trafford Stadium Tour & Museum. Instead of waiting in the hotel lobby for the rest of the team, we decided to make a quick trip to Manchester City Centre by taking the free busses (Metroshuttle). Premier Inn Manchester Central is just 2 minutes walk from St. Peter Square Metroshuttle station. So we took the Metroshuttle and stopped by The John Ryland Library, Chetham's Library and Manchester Cathedral.

We didn't enter The John Ryland Library because when we reached there it's not open yet. So, I just took some photographs outside the library. We then took the Metroshuttle to Manchester Cathedral which's just 2 stops away from The John Ryland Library. You can walk too if you want as it's only 8 minutes away from the library. It's just too cold for us to walk and I think my fingers actually went numb!

The John Rylands Library opening hours

The John Rylands Library

The John Rylands Library

Address:

The John Rylands Library

150 Deansgate, 

Manchester

Finally, Manchester Cathedral is open for visitors and admission is free! You may take photographs using your own camera or mobile phone but there's a £1 charge. I love visiting churches and cathedrals. Beautiful architecture and it's so peaceful and quiet inside the cathedral.

Manchester Cathedral

Manchester Cathedral

Manchester Cathedral

Manchester Cathedral

Manchester Cathedral

Manchester Cathedral

Manchester Cathedral

Manchester Cathedral

Address:

Manchester Cathedral

Victoria St, Manchester

Chetham's Library is the oldest public library in the English speaking world. It's just 4 minutes walk from Manchester Cathedral. Anyone can access the library and it's free but there's specific opening times for you to visit. We missed the 10am slot and the next available slot was 11am. Due to time constraint we were unable to visit the library as we need to catch up with the team at the hotel lobby around 11am for our Old Trafford Stadium Tour and Museum.

Chetham's Library

Chetham's Library

Address:

Chetham's Library

Long Millgate,

Manchester

Here we are at the Old Trafford Stadium Tour and Museum. We visited the Museum first and get to view the famous trophies and collection of club memorabilia. You can visit the Museum before or after the guided stadium tour. We took the 12.50pm stadium tour and it lasted for an hour. It was a guided tour and they brought us around the stadium, Manchester United dressing room, The Sir Alex Ferguson stand, experience the emotion of running through the tunnel, players' dugout, press room, VIP room and lastly you will receive a personalised certificate printed at the Megastore for free. (Ticket price for official members - £9. Non-official members price - £18)

Museum opening hours:

Monday to Saturday: 9.30am to 5pm

Sunday: 10am to 4pm

Closed on all match day

Stadium tours starts at 9.40am with the last tour beginning at 4.30pm (3.30pm on Sunday) except match days and some school holidays.

Museum & Tour Centre

Museum & Tour ticketing counter

My entrance ticket for Museum and stadium tour - £9

Museum & Tour

Trophies

Museum tour

In memory of the officials & players who lost their lives

Stadium tour

Old Trafford stadium

Old Trafford stadium

Manchester United dressing room

Manchester United dressing room

Old Trafford stadium

Old Trafford stadium

Manchester United home team

We had our late lunch at the Red Café. We shared a plate of The big united mixed grill comes with 14oz meat feast - rump steak, gammon chicken and Cumberland sausage served with a fried egg, mushrooms, grilled cheery tomatoes, onions rings and salads. It was good. I'm not a mushroom lover but surprisingly I like the mushroom very much. Restaurant open from 11am to 4pm.

The big united mixed grill - £16.50

We left Old Trafford around 3.30pm and took an Uber ride to Museum of Science and Industry located at Liverpool Road. Entry to the museum is free. We took a quick look, snap some photos and proceed to our next destination.

Museum of Science & Industry

Tim Peake's Spacecraft

Baby - the world's first stored-program computer

Tim Peake's Sokol KV-2 Spacesuit, 2015

Spiral digital sculpture and spacesuit

Textiles gallery

Textile gallery

Power Hall

Address:

Museum of Science & Industry

Liverpool Road, Manchester

Opening hours: 10am to 5pm (daily)

We took an Uber from Museum of Science & Industry to Chinatown (8 minutes ride) as we were too lazy to walk. Walking distance from the Museum to Chinatown will take approximately 16 minutes. Chinatown was very quiet and "dead". We walked around and ended up had our early dinner at Jamie's Italian, 4 minutes walk from Chinatown.

Chinatown Manchester

Chinatown Manchester

Address:

Chinatown

Boyle Street, Cheetham,

Manchester

Jamie's Italian has this two courses set menu served Monday to Friday 12pm to 6pm for £12.95. You get to choose one starters and one mains. We ordered Truffle tagliatelle - freshly made pasta, Umbrian truffle, truffle cream and nutmeg as our starter and Carbonara - Casarecce pasta with golden smoky pancetta, cracked black pepper and Parmesan as our mains.

You can top up £3 for a dessert. There's four types of desserts for you to choose from:

a) rich chocolate brownie (chocolate sauce, salted caramel, popcorn gelato & caramelised popcorn)

b) Affogato (vanilla ice cream with a shot of pipping hot espresso)

c) Clementine sorbet (three scoops of refreshing citrus sorbet) or 

d) Jamie's favourite Torta Di Nana (blueberry & olive oil cake with whipped cream, amaretti biscuits, honey & orange zest)

Truffle tagliatelle was slightly hard for my liking. Their kitchen accidentally prepared a bigger portion for us and we couldn't finished it. On the other hand, Carbonara was cooked al-dente but tasted a bit bland. We didn't order any dessert because we were already full. Overall we didn't really enjoy our dinner. Waiter wasn't really friendly to us and sad to say that we didn't feel welcome at all.

Jamie's Italian

Restaurant ambience

Truffle Tagliatelle (starter)

Carbonara (mains)

Address:

Jamie's Italian

100 King Street, Manchester

Opening hours: Mon to Thu - 12pm to 10.30pm, Fri to Sat - 12pm to 11pm, Sun - 12pm to 10pm

After our early dinner at Jamie's Italian, we decided to walk back to our hotel. Premier Inn Manchester Central is just 8 minutes walk from Jamie's Italian. We passed by Manchester Town Hall which was close for a repair and refurbished programme until 2024. Somehow we still couldn't deal with jet lag. We went straight to bed after our early dinner and sleep until the next day!

Manchester Town Hall

Manchester Town Hall

Manchester Town Hall

Manchester Town Hall

Address:

Manchester Town Hall

Albert Square, Manchester