Adelphi owner buys Manchester Posthouse for £6.5m

Britannia Hotels, owner of the controversial Adelphi hotel in Liverpool, has bought the Manchester Posthouse hotel from Six Continents for close to £6.5m.

The 191-bedroom, mid-market hotel includes a 100-seat restaurant and five function rooms.

Britannia Hotels owns 14 hotels across the UK, including the 402-bedroom Adelphi in Liverpool, which caused controversy after the 1997 fly-on-the-wall documentary Hotel.

Many in the industry criticised the way the hotel was run and claimed it had damaged the reputation of the industry. Adelphi rejected their claims.

The Manchester Posthouse is one of nine Posthouses Six Continents put on the market after buying the chain from Compass last year. Agent Christie & Co said seven of the nine are now either sold or under offer.

Alex Langsam, chief executive of Britannia Hotels, said in a statement: "The hotel is a perfect fit for us to accomodate the additional demand we are seeing across all our hotels in the North-west."