The Ultimate Manchester Bucketlist: 60 Things To Do In Manchester This Year

60 things to do in Manchester this year.

What will you do in the city this year? Get some inspirational ideas for things to do in Manchester with our magical bucket list.

1. Re-live your childhood in an underground arcade bar
2. Adopt a bee
3. Listen to classical music by candlelight
4. Or jazz in a secret club
5. See the Lego cats at Chester Zoo
6. Or build your own Lego creations while you booze
7. Get your new profile picture in front of the Spinningfields neon signs
8. Or in front of the Brexit billboards
9. Party like Freddie Mercury
10. Visit Alan Turing
11. See the wall of death at Circus Funtasia
12. See the new show by the producers of the Moscow State Circus
13. Or an x-rated circus
14. Or immerse yourself in a circus-themed club night
15. Give blood
16. Sing along with Mamma Mia
17. See the Da Vinci drawings while you can
18. Help the homeless

    

19. Get some dirty vegan food
20. Celebrate the anniversary of the moon landing at Bluedot festival
21. Or head to Parklife
22. Visit the UK’s first naked Lush store
23. Be part of the Jury at a live murder trial
24. Visit Manchester’s ‘most beautiful’ restaurant
25. Get a Freakshake
26. Win two tickets to see the Spice Girls
27. Get a selfie in the toilets at the Ivy
28. Go for lunch
29. Or brunch
30. Or pizza
31. Get your face on a cappuccino
32. See the Manchester Giants
33. Eat at the Arndale’s fancy food court
34. Visit the Peaky Blinders-themed bar
35. Have your tea in a giant igloo
36. Go for a fancy kebab
37. Visit the ‘happiest restaurant’ in Manchester
38. Enrol in wizard school
39. Visit the bar that looks like a laundrette
40. And this password protected speakeasy
41. Then test out the ultimate hangover cure
42. Or go for a full English in a giant Yorkshire pudding
43. See the Elvis-fronted Nirvana tribute band
44. Claim victory at fancy darts
45. Take your dog for a drink
46. Or to the dog cafe
47. Or throw it a Birthday party
48. Eat at UK’s first toastie restaurant
49. Get a G and T at all the Manchester bars on the Ultimate Gin Crawl
50. Visit the world’s first Tango Ice Blast kiosk
51. Go to the pictures
52. Go for a Harry Potter-inspired afternoon tea
53. Pull an all-nighter at Venue
54. Try Crazy Pedro’s bizarre pizza of the month
55. Spend all your money in the Arndale’s Harry Potter shop

    

56. Get all the free stuff at the Trafford Centre on your Birthday
57. Take on the four-foot ‘Monster Sub’
58. See the Piccadilly Rats
59. Go swimming outdoors
60. Or drink outdoors in one of the gorgeous beer gardens

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