If you're feeling lazy but still want to have a look around the city centre, take the number 2 free bus. It goes in a loop around the city centre so you could hop on and off because they go every 10 minutes or so during the daytime. There are two other free routes (1 and 3) but they are not as good for sightseeing as No 2.

You can catch it from outside Victoria station, Oxford Road station and various stops along the route (for example Hulme street near the BBC, anywhere along Deansgate, by Marks & Spencers at the bottom of market street).

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During the day there are six trains an hour into the city centre and up to four through the night. Trains run to Manchester Piccadilly rail station and take 15-20 minutes.

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Has to be a tram. Ride with a rumble and a hoot from St Peter’s Square, up the slope by the G-Mex exhibition centre and on to the Lowry cultural centre by the Manchester ship canal in Salford. Cross over to Daniel Libeskind’s Imperial War Museum North and then ride back.

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