John’s appartement is located in Ancoats which is a formerly rough area of Manchester located to the north east of the centre of the city. The area is being redeveloped in places and is on the ‘way up’. We felt very safe in the area. The apartment is in an amazing old mill building on the third floor. It is very quiet ( apart from the school bell which rings in the morning on weekdays from the school nearby) and you hardly hear any traffic . The apartment is small but really clean and well furnished and equipped . John is an extremely thoughtful host who stays in touch throughout your stay to ensure that everything is going smoothly and to help out if there are any problems. We walked along the canal outside the mill building to the trendy Northern Quarter which only took us about 20 Minutes! Don’t expect to find shops and cafés in this area though ( apart from a corner shop - and we didn’t walk to the supermarket which was listed in the information) - but the upside is that it’s really peaceful for somewhere located so close to a busy city centre!