Manchester's newest five star hotel, Hotel Gotham, has become a firm favourite among the city's VIP crowd since opening in April 2015.

Here we take a look inside the seriously luxurious and nostalgic interiors of the King Street venue.

Where is it?

The hotel is inside the imposing former bank building at the top of King Street, designed by one of the greatest British architects Edwin Lutyens, and originally opened in 1935.

Owners of the hotel painstakingly restored and transformed their seven floors with lots of playful references to its banking past, and honouring those fabulous Art Deco features.

What can I expect?

60 Luxurious bedrooms spread over those seven floors, a public restaurant Honey up on the sixth floor, and the much talked-about private members bar Club Brass on the top floor - complete with stunning views across the city on outdoor balconies.

There are plush fixtures and fittings throughout and plenty of nods to that banking past - think gold ingot toiletry displays and moneybag style laundry sacks in the bedrooms, while in the restaurant typewriters adorn the wall and it Club Brass there are satchels for light fittings!

Guests are welcomed into the building by Bell Boys who will man the 24-hour entrance hall, before you are whisked up to the main reception on the sixth floor.

Only guests with a reservation at the hotel, restaurant or bar will be allowed inside, as part of the hotel’s ethos is to provide a discrete and private experience for all of its clients, which is set to be a hit with both the city’s resident and visiting VIP and celebrity crowds.

How much is it to stay?

Prices for a Club Room start at £185, while you can expect to pay up to £1,000 a night for the plush Gotham Suites and "Inner Sanctum" suites at the core of the hotel.

While the hotel may be named after Gotham, the fictional home of comicbook caped crusader Batman, the only nod to the character is in the “do not disturb” signs that you can hang on your hotel door in the silhouette of a bat.

Who has stayed?

They may have been open just over a year, but already the hotel has become a favourite haunt of visiting VIPs and celebrities. The Voice TV talent show coaches all stayed there last year, while Simon Cowell was also a visitor to the venue, causing a stir when his Rolls Royce pulled up outside.

The venue has recently become a favoured spot for TV shows filming too - with Coronation Street paying a visit to film raunchy scenes between Todd and Billy in one of the bedrooms and also in Honey Restaurant, while the Real Housewives of Cheshire filmed their latest series in Club Brass.

Honey Restaurant

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The 68-cover restaurant on the fifth floor serves a modern twist on brasserie classics, with lots of local dishes including Lamb Hotpot, Manchester Tart, Warm Rhubarb and Pistachio Bakewell and Lancashire cheese and Cheshire ham.

The unique servery counters are based on period filing cabinets consisting of zinc, wood and marble and finished with brass Bank vault mesh, while the original half-moon windows offer stunning views across Manchester.

Interiors give a nod to the banking past with Bowler hat displays, green glass wall lamps and 1900s Banker style chairs.

Club Brass

The private members’ bar on the seventh floor is named after all that money that used to be held in the building, and is billed as an exclusive rooftop retreat for VIPs and hotel guests. With membership held at just 250 well heeled folk.

Indeed, membership to the club costs £750 a year, with a number of very famous faces among the first to bag their membership.

Geometric tin-tiled walls, sleek leather booths and cut-glass decanter lights are in the main area, with bespoke recycled timber coffee tables and industrial high tables.

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You enter via an illuminated steel and brass staircase inspired by bank vaults of old, and through safe doors.

The menu offers all day dining and includes “Lady Connie Crumpsall’s favourite”, Royal Oscietra Caviar, Oyster Po Boy and a Brass seafood platter.

And there are views to die for over the city from the outdoor terraces.

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Original details

The Grade II-listed building was originally designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1928, with an Art Deco, neoclassical style, with construction finishing in 1935.

Internal restoration includes the reincarnation of the main staircase, with original brass handrail, balustrades, mouldings and terrazzo flooring - while the original windows are fantastic features in the bedrooms and in the restaurant and bar.

Guests will also get an intriguing view of the stone pillars and mouldings on the top floor, from the new balcony areas at Club Brass.

Bedrooms

60 individually designed bedrooms are spread over the first five floors of the hotel, with the Art Deco influence running throughout with striking, bespoke geometric carpets.

Rooms range from club, executive and suites up to the decadent, leather-clad “Inner sanctum suites” to be found at the core of each floor.

These suites, priced at £1,000, have no natural light and instead have a dramatic “wonderwall” - a giant video screen which will have a video of Manchester reimagined as a 1930s Manhattan-esque cityscape playing on guests’ arrival.

Each room has luxurious details like classic crystal goblets for drinks, and the option to buy a “hangover kit” or for those feeling a little cheeky, an “intimacy kit”!

The views

The venue offers fantastic views across the rooftops of Manchester from the fifth floor restaurant, and up on the top floor’s Club Brass there are three outdoor terraces where guests will be able to sip their cocktails while watching the sun set.

The hotel was developed by Marshall CDP, who hailed the fact it was completed on schedule and within budget ahead of its formal opening in April.