Last updated: August 2026
Whole houses for working crews across Greater Manchester from £35 per person per night, bills included.
We manage a three-bedroom flat with off-street parking in Ancoats, and we source whole houses to your site and your headcount.
This page is written for the site manager, site agent, project manager or office manager housing a crew in Manchester — on the Etihad expansion, the Haweswater aqueduct works, Wythenshawe town centre, Trafford Park, or the airport campus.
The honest version: Manchester demand runs well ahead of what any single operator holds in the city. So we source to brief rather than pretend to a fixed portfolio, and we tell you the same working day whether we can cover it.
Below are the real per-person rates, drive times to every major site, what is included, and what happens when the programme moves.
Contractor accommodation in Manchester — the short answer
Contractor accommodation in Manchester means a whole furnished house let to a working crew rather than hotel rooms — kitchen, washing machine, parking, a separate bed each, bills inside the rate. Stayful sources whole houses across Greater Manchester from £35 per person per night for crews of six to eight, and manages a three-bedroom flat with parking in Ancoats for smaller teams. Rates and drive times follow.
Tell us the site, the headcount and the start date
We come back the same working day with what we can put together and a fixed quote. Whole houses for the crew, bills, wifi and linen in the rate. If we cannot cover it ourselves we will say so and tell you who can.
Or browse the properties we have live nowHow much does contractor accommodation cost in Manchester?
From £35 per person per night for a crew of six to eight in a whole house, bills included. Larger crews and longer programmes come in at the lower end of that range; short notice and city-centre locations at the upper end. Source basis: rates Stayful and its partner operators can currently source at across Greater Manchester, August 2026.
| Property type | Sleeps (separate beds) | From, pppn all-in | Minimum stay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole house, sourced to your site | 6–8 | £35–45 | From 2 nights |
| Whole house, larger crew or longer programme | 8–14 across two houses | £35 | From 7 nights |
| 3-bed flat with parking, Ancoats (ours) | 3 | Quoted separately | 2–4 nights |
Rates as of August 2026, and they move with the date and the location — a house in Salford or Eccles prices differently from one inside the city centre.
The pppn figure divides the whole-property rate by beds a contractor can actually sleep in on his own, never by a maximum occupancy that counts a sofa.
These are sourcing indications, not a fixed price list. Send us the site, the headcount and the budget you have to work to, and we will come back with a fixed quote the same working day — or tell you honestly that your number will not buy it in Manchester.
Longer bookings come down. Weekly and monthly rates are materially below the nightly figure, and a six-week programme prices better per night than a four-night stay.
The Ancoats flat is our own property: three bedrooms, three separate beds, off-street parking, washing machine and tumble dryer, one mile from Piccadilly. It suits a supervisor and a pair of tradesmen rather than a full crew, and because it is a city-centre apartment it is quoted on its own rather than against the crew rate above.
Is contractor accommodation cheaper than a hotel in Manchester?
Yes, for a crew. Manchester city-centre hotel rooms run roughly £90 to £140 a night before parking or breakfast. A whole house at £35 to £45 per person per night, bills included, puts a crew of eight well below eight room rates — typically 30 to 45 percent less once parking, kitchen and laundry are counted.
What is contractor accommodation?
Contractor accommodation is a furnished residential property, usually a whole house, let to a working team for the length of a job rather than to tourists for a weekend. It has a kitchen, a washing machine, parking and a separate bed for each person, with bills inside the rate. In Manchester that means a house in the suburbs or a self-contained flat in the centre — not a hotel room, and not a room in someone else's HMO.
Bookers reach this page having searched a dozen different ways.
Some search contractor accommodation Manchester. Some search contractors accommodation Manchester, or worker accommodation Manchester, or workers accommodation Manchester. Others look for contractor housing, contractor stays, contractor bnb, accommodation for tradesmen, or serviced accommodation for contractors. The crews themselves usually just call it digs.
All of it describes the same purchase: a whole property, booked for a team, priced by the night, with the bills in.
Two things it is not. It is not site accommodation — no cabins or welfare units here, just ordinary residential property off site. And it is not a room in a shared HMO where another landlord's tenants hold keys to the same front door. You get the whole building, and nobody outside your booking has access.
Self-catering matters more than bookers expect. After a ten-hour shift a crew that can cook a proper meal and wash a week of workwear performs differently from one living on takeaways out of a hotel room.
Work gear needs somewhere to go. On sourced houses we brief for hallway and utility space so wet kit and PPE are not piled in a bedroom, and a tumble dryer is fitted at the Ancoats flat.
Van parking is the question worth asking early. Inner Manchester is tight and permit-controlled in many streets, so if the crew is arriving in liveried vans with tools in them, say so on the enquiry and we will source outward — Salford, Eccles, Stretford, Denton — where a drive takes a van properly.
Two minutes. A postcode, a number of beds and your budget per head is enough to start.
What we can put together on your dates, a fixed quote, and an honest answer if Manchester will not deliver at your number.
£200, fully refundable after the stay. We can invoice the company against your PO instead of taking a card.
Access codes sent ahead. No key handover to arrange, no one to meet.
Send the dates even if the job is not signed off yet — we will hold a quote so you can put a real number in the tender.
Six to eight in one house is the standard Manchester crew booking, everyone in a separate bed.
Fourteen works across two houses sourced close together, which we brief for deliberately rather than accepting whatever is free at opposite ends of the conurbation.
Beyond fourteen, tell us anyway. Manchester is the one city where the demand reaching us regularly exceeds what any single operator holds, so a larger crew is a sourcing exercise rather than an automatic no.
A crew that sleeps properly, eats properly and has somewhere decent to come back to stays on site and finishes on programme. That is not a welfare argument. It is a project delivery argument.
Workers on different shifts and different start times need a door they can close. That is the single strongest reason a house beats a block of hotel rooms over a six-week programme, and it costs less.
Stayful manages its properties directly rather than reselling someone else's stock. Source basis: 70 properties under management across 45+ areas of England, 10,000+ nights hosted, as of August 2026. In Manchester we manage one flat in Ancoats and source whole houses to brief through operators we work with and vet. We would rather tell you that plainly than claim a Manchester portfolio we do not hold — and it means when you ring about a problem you reach the people responsible for the property, not a resolution centre.
The Ancoats flat sits a mile east of Piccadilly, inside the inner ring and straight onto the A62 and A665.
| Destination | Miles | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Manchester city centre (Piccadilly) | 1.0 | 4 minRail and Metrolink |
| Etihad Stadium / Medlock Square | 1.5 | 6 min£300m expansion, completing 2026 |
| Manchester Royal Infirmary | 2.1 | 7 minLocum and agency shifts |
| North Manchester General Hospital | 3.2 | 10 min |
| Salford Quays / MediaCity | 4.2 | 12 min |
| Trafford Park industrial estate | 5.3 | 14 minLogistics and manufacturing |
| Old Trafford, Trafford | 5.0 | 15 minStadium district regeneration |
| Stockport | 6.6 | 20 minM60 town centre works |
| Wythenshawe town centre | 8.3 | 22 min£500m regeneration |
| Manchester Airport / MIX campus | 9.8 | 21 minM56 |
| Bolton | 15.7 | 26 min |
| Warrington | 20.5 | 32 minM62 corridor |
Distances and times are road-routed from Ancoats, measured August 2026. Allow more at shift change on the M60 and the Mancunian Way.
Sourced houses are matched to your site, not to this postcode. If the job is at the airport or in Wythenshawe we will base you south rather than send a crew across the city twice a day — thirty minutes each way over six weeks is fifteen hours of your team's time.
Named schemes for the record: the Etihad Stadium expansion in east Manchester and the United Utilities Haweswater aqueduct programme, a multi-year civils job across the region.
A whole house works out 30 to 45 percent cheaper than the equivalent hotel rooms, all bills included. The saving is not a discount we are choosing to give — it is what happens when you stop paying eight separate room rates in a city where rooms run £90 to £140.
Booking direct means you deal with us rather than a platform's resolution centre. What you get instead is 0113 479 0251, answered by the people who manage the property, and the same cancellation terms that apply to that property on Airbnb.
4.6 out of 5 from 21 Google reviews
Source basis: Google Business Profile reviews for Stayful, as of August 2026. The Airbnb category ratings shown here are separate platform scores and are labelled as such.
Source basis: Airbnb guest reviews across the Stayful portfolio of 70 managed properties, 10,000+ nights hosted, as of August 2026. These are portfolio figures, not a Manchester-specific rating — the Ancoats flat is a single property and we would rather label that honestly than present four decimal places as local proof.
The rating that matters for a crew booking is communication, and it is the one we hold at 4.9 across ten thousand nights. It exists because things occasionally go wrong and we sort them quickly.
Ask us for a reference from a company we have housed in the North West and we will put you in touch with one rather than paraphrase them here.
Parking that fits two vans. A second bathroom. A ground floor bedroom. Monday to Friday only. Eight beds from the same Sunday, ten miles from the airport. Manchester is the city where we source most actively, so tell us the requirement and the budget you have to work to — we will come back the same working day with what we can put together, put you in front of an operator who can cover what we cannot, or tell you honestly that your number will not buy it here. What we will not do is take the booking and scatter your crew across three postcodes.
From £35 per person per night for a crew of six to eight in a whole house, bills included — rent, cleaning spread across the stay, gas, electricity, water, wifi and linen. Larger crews and longer programmes sit at the bottom of the £35 to £45 range; short notice and city-centre locations at the top. These are sourcing indications as of August 2026, not a fixed price list, so send the site and headcount for a firm quote.
We manage a three-bedroom flat with off-street parking in Ancoats, one mile from Piccadilly, which sleeps three in separate beds. For crews of six and up we source whole houses across Greater Manchester to your site and your dates through operators we work with and vet. We would rather tell you that plainly than claim a Manchester portfolio we do not hold.
Yes, and that is the standard booking — six to eight in a whole house with a separate bed each. Fourteen works across two houses sourced close together rather than at opposite ends of the conurbation. Above fourteen, ask anyway: Manchester demand regularly exceeds what one operator holds, so a bigger crew is a sourcing exercise rather than an automatic no.
At the Ancoats flat there is off-street parking. On sourced houses parking is specified per property, and if the crew is arriving in liveried vans with tools in them say so on the enquiry — inner Manchester streets are tight and permit-controlled, so we will source outward to Salford, Eccles, Stretford or Denton where a drive takes a van properly.
Same thing. Worker accommodation, workers accommodation, contractor housing, contractor stays, contractor digs and accommodation for tradesmen all describe a whole furnished property let to a working team, priced by the night with bills included. The words differ by trade and region; the purchase does not.
Neither. These are ordinary residential houses and a self-contained flat, booked whole and exclusively for your crew. Nothing like a site cabin or a welfare unit, and no other landlord's tenants hold keys to the same front door. The whole property is yours for the booking.
From Ancoats the Etihad is 6 minutes at 1.5 miles, Trafford Park 14 minutes at 5.3 miles, and Manchester Airport 21 minutes at 9.8 miles. Road-routed and measured August 2026. Sourced houses are matched to your site rather than to Ancoats, so if the job is south we will base you south.
Yes. One invoice for the whole team with your PO number on it, and 30-day terms for approved accounts. If finance would rather not put a card through for the deposit, we can put that on the invoice too. One email in, one invoice out, matched to the PO at month end.
Usually we extend the same house — same keys, same crew, no rebooking from scratch. We cannot guarantee a specific property will still be free, because someone else may already have those dates. Tell us as soon as the programme slips rather than in the last week and the odds are much better.
Yes, and often that is the better answer. Salford Quays is 12 minutes from Ancoats, Stockport 20, Bolton 26 and Warrington 32. For a long contract on the M62 or at the airport a base on that side usually beats a city-centre one, and we will say which we think it is rather than sell you the nearest house.
We answer calls during working hours. Site managers ring rather than fill in forms, and that is fine.
info@stayful.co.uk Stayful — 70 properties across 45+ areas of England. Check-in 3pm, check-out 11am. One managed flat in Ancoats and whole houses sourced across Greater Manchester.We come back the same working day with what we can put together and a fixed quote. From £35 per person per night, bills included, separate bed for everyone. Tell us the budget you have to work to and we will be straight with you about what it buys in Manchester. If you need a single room for one night, a hotel will suit you better.
0113 479 0251 · £200 refundable deposit · One invoice, PO matched, 30-day terms for approved accounts
