Scathing reviews of Manchester Christmas Markets 'nothing to do with Xmas'

Manchester's Christmas Markets have been open for almost three weeks now and there's been plenty of debate about their festive return. While many are loving having them back across the city bringing festive cheer, others have been having a good old moan about pricing, the range of stalls this year and some say a lack of anything very Christmassy to buy.

"By the trade I saw the stalls doing it will be very difficult to find stall holders next year. Very Very POOR," he concluded. Michael M titled his post "ripped off" on Tripadvisor. He claimed he and his partner bought two hot chocolates at one stall for £16 on one day - but when they returned with a different staff member serving they had gone up to £18 and claimed a "scam" was going on.

Robin Boardman advised shopping around for the best bar prices. He said: "If you just grab the first thing you see, it probably does work out expensive."

Agree. More food than crafts. All a bit rubbish really.

Christmas Market as an attraction is well played out now. Ten years ago, maybe. Time to forget it. Just need have seasonal fare etc in existing daytime venues. It’s expensive, tired and stale. Time to let go.

It been that way for many, many years, even before they stopped being the ‘German Christmas market’.

Went to Llandudno the other weekend, it just happened to be when the Christmas Markets were on. Fair rides mixed in with local craft and produce stalls, plus Christmas gift, food and drink stalls, a stage with an oompah band leading a sing-a-long, a really good family atmosphere

What do they want?.. it’s a fable, a story, it’s not real. Christmas is what anyone wants it to be. Just make it up, the religions have done for millennia.

Karno’s circus

Pay the pray Karney, thickest person on the planet

Everything to do with council revenue

They need to get back the European stalls that they used to have, they made the markets special, they are missed. Too much, not so cheap, local tat for the last few years.

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