I stayed about two weeks ago, during the Euro 2022 women's football (soccer), where the Portugal team appeared to be staying. I had booked a "Manchester United" suite as at the time of booking (3 months in advance) it wasn't that much of a premium from a normal room. That was fun actually, and it's a nice change to their suites which I do seem to remember having in the past and thinking they were fairly standard. As a result I had a room (the treble, 1999), that had a number of football mementos in cabinets, a high quality Manchester United sofa and a really nicely done red tiled bathroom (shower only though). As a Titanium member, breakfast was in the hotel restaurant and was a fairly standard English breakfast buffet. I had a welcome gift of chocolate and a free drinks voucher for the bar. Each of the suites seemed to have a different theme, and in reception the same themes (8?) are there to entertain you whilst you do the check-in.

So overall, the hotel was due a refurb from my last stay (4-5 years ago?), at least for the suites they've done that, and it was definitely a more unique Marriott experience than normal. The area now itself is much more hip as well, with Spinningfields nearby offering multiple restaurants, supermarkets, cinemas etc. The only negative of this is that there is construction nearby, I stayed at a weekend so there wasn't noise, but just something to be careful of for the next 6-12 months.