Manchester’s Christmas celebrations are well underway, with the Christmas markets now joined in the city by an ice rink. Outside of Manchester Victoria station.
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00:00Hi I'm Theo with Manchester World and there's two surefire ways of knowing that Christmas has hit
00:04Manchester. The first is the Christmas market which hopefully you'll have seen our coverage
00:08of by now and the second is the opening of the ice rinks here in the city. I'm on my way now to
00:14the opening of Skate which opened last week for you guys so will be open now. I'm going to go see
00:19what they've got to offer and let you know if I recommend it. Welcome to Skate Manchester. Now it
00:24is located just outside of the National Football Museum and Manchester Victoria Station. You can
00:28see the prices there. They'll pay for about 45 minutes of skating action and there's plenty
00:32of opportunities to get down to it as well because it's open right through to the 1st of January. So
00:37I was invited down to give it a try for its grand opening. So let's go hit the rink shall we? I will
00:44warn you though it's been a while so don't expect much. So just getting onto the ice rink now. It's
00:49been a long old time, a long old time since I've done this so I'm gonna get on. Thankfully there's
00:55no way I can set you up so you can see me doing it so you're just gonna have to...
01:01What's me struggling? It is genuinely a really convenient setup here. I mean
01:05there's not tons of space to play with and they've maximised it really effectively but
01:10from what I've seen so far I can definitely recommend it as a good time and well worth
01:14giving a go to. Now the space is great. As I say there's not tons of space to play with really
01:24outside the football museum but they really have made the best of it. We've got one big rink and a
01:28sort of smaller outside area for those who are maybe a little less confident. It's right around
01:32the corner from the Primworks. There are tons of great food options nearby as well so it's really
01:37easy to make it into a sort of evening out rather than just a day trip to go skating. They also have
01:43a great range of cocktails there. This is a sort of orange spiced espresso martini which was really
01:48interesting. Actually I can't say I've tried anything like it before but pretty pleasant.
01:54So that's my experience of skate. I do recommend going down.
01:56It's there for a long time so there's no excuse for missing out.