Hotels group Intercontinental Hotels was also unwanted, down 85p to £22.44.
By the 1960s Ian Nairn could call Manchester a place of "rained-off Test matches and forbidding hotels".
It has hand-picked 13 of the best value hotels and riads for you to choose from; prices start from £9 a night in the Tachfine, a friendly three-star with a roof terrace, to £70 at the five-star Le Meridien N'Fis.
An island that now charges you thousands of euros to spend a couple of nights in one of the tiny white cave dwellings that cling to its cliffs, magically transformed into some of the most glamorous hotels in the world.
But the publication today of another tranche of management expenses suggests its most senior executives are increasingly parsimonious, at least when it comes to claiming back taxis, hotels and meals.
GRAN CANARIA If wrapping up warm for wintry romance isn't your thing, escape for a week in the Canary islands, where winter temperatures are usually around 20C. Gran Canaria, with its rolling sand dunes and lush palm plantations, has a stark beauty and, perhaps more importantly, a smattering of slick spa hotels.
Luxury breaks offering great food and smart hotels are being created by firms such as Fusion Escapes, a three-year-old specialist operator which founder, Rachel Harvey, says was launched "to fill the gaping hole in the travel market for single professionals used to the finer things in life".
Frigate Bay North has most of the hotels, but it is also the Atlantic side, where the tradewinds and rollers come in off the ocean.
Once just shorthand for a tour bundling transport and lodging, these days it carries dingier connotations: high-rise hotels, beaches crammed with blistering bodies, lurid cocktails slurped from exposed belly buttons.
Along the western flank of the city are the first towers of the Jabal Omar development, a sprawling complex that will eventually accommodate 100,000 people in 26 luxury hotels – sitting on another gargantuan plinth of 4,000 shops and 500 restaurants, along with its own six-storey prayer hall.
Most of these hotels are 50% vacant and the malls are empty – the rents are too expensive for the former souk stall-holders.
