Old Trafford Cricket Ground

"Top-class Test Match Experience!" Visited for Day 2 of the India v England Test (Aug 2025) — absolutely brilliant! 🏟️ Atmosphere: Electric! Indian and English fans were in full voice. Every wicket and boundary felt huge. Seating & View: Clear views, comfy seats, great acoustics. Big screens and replays were spot on. Food & Drinks: Great variety — Indian street food, classic stadium bites, even vegan options. Bars well-stocked. A bit pricey, but fast-moving queues. Liked the baked potato options a lot. Transport: Easy access via tram. Recommend public transport over driving. Pro Tip: Grab food mid-session to avoid long lines at lunch. 📍 Old Trafford nailed it — historic venue with modern flair. Would come again in a heartbeat!

Review for stadium, match days T20 ¼ finals Sep 25 and T20 v Yorks Jul 25 Increadible atmosphere generated by the crowd, helps when Lancs Win (not v Yorks - Birstow astounding innings). In general, good off field entertainment and, tbh you can see Lancs are trying here with free bucket hats, badges, Lanky Mascot and facepainting etc. However, Lancs fail, miserably IMHO, with many food & beverage outlets simply woefully understaffed. Queues for all beverages are a spectating preventative 15 - 25 minute wait. In a match with just circa 150 minutes of actual live play, that becomes completely unacceptable considering the very unnecessarily strict limitation on food and drink you are permitted to bring in. So they want you buying their food and drink, they provide facilities to do so, they simply don't staff them. Staff, marshalling, gate staff, food , beverages etc are 100% chalk and cheese - The better side of the staff, are very, very good ... friendly, engaging, professional whilst willing to have a giggle too - well done. The unfortunate flip side of this, is the way too many staff that are surly, unnecessarily abrupt borderline rude. These team members are seriously not suitable for customer facing roles in any regard. I really don't blame these members of the team, the blame here squarely lies with what must be a very weak recruitment policy, shortlisting and training, because it is abundantly obvious that these members of the team, should not be in these roles. Toikets next, a difficult situation I accept, but just about acceptable in quantity but need some supervision and orderly queuing and some regular cleaning for sure! Next, the scoreboard and digital 'ticker' info. Effectively there is no scoreboard. Way. WAY too frequently there is no score, wickets, overs, battters, required ... they are replaced by slow motion or still replays of zero action, just a face, a stance or a player doing nothing. I accept you want replays quickly of wickets and boundaries but when not, the full scoreboard should ALWAYS be up with breaks only to show wickets or boundaries. A simple fix. Seems like a lot, but of course due to the fact that most visits will have you there all day, there is a lot that needs to be adequately provided. Ticket prices are not insignificant so spectators are seriously checking value for money Lancs playing and support staff generally providing entertainment, but significant work to be done off field to ensure Old Trafford becomes the world class facility it should be.

My husband and I Visited Manchester for the first time for our wedding anniversary and we decided to stay at the Old Trafford Hotel and chose the pitch view room with balcony view and access the cricket ground it was a lovely experience we had,waking up in the morning to the sun and seeing the whole view of the cricket ground,although there was no game at the time but it was a great experience and serene atmosphere and feeling,easy to locate not far from city center Manchester is indeed a beautiful city to visit and leave in if I get an opportunity to work there ☺️