Contact Us

Nothing on this site is sold or reserved, so the inbox sits behind no booking system. The six walks described here are run by independent guides: five are listed on GuruWalk, one of them Spanish only, and the sixth sits on freetour.com. A spot on any walk is reserved on the platform that carries it. What this site has is a single email address, and anything sent to it is read. A correction, a missing free attraction, or a flat insistence that a page is wrong all land the same way, and a short message beats a long one.

Not every email deserves the same urgency. A note that catches an error in a fact, or points to a free Manchester walk this site has never heard of, carries more weight than a general travel query. Send anything matching the items below and it will be read first.

• Facts go out of date. A guide switches meeting points, a museum changes its entry conditions, a tour gets longer or shorter. Where a page here no longer reflects reality, write in and it will be fixed. Prices are one thing that cannot drift, because every walk listed is pay what you want.
• A walk that has vanished or quietly reworked itself. Free tours in Manchester sometimes stop taking bookings, drop a stop, or switch the language they run in, which matters here because one of the six is Spanish only. Tell this site the walk's name and what has shifted. Once confirmed, the text gets amended or the walk is removed.
• If a free-entry rule is wrong, say which day it actually applies. Same if a paid museum is listed as costing nothing, or a library is described as free when every visit is a pre-booked paid tour. Each fact of that kind here is checked against official or primary sources, never operator marketing.
• A guide this site has left out. Any free, pay-what-you-want walk around Manchester with a live, bookable GuruWalk listing that is missing from these pages deserves a mention, so send the link to the guide's GuruWalk page. It gets the same scrutiny the current walks received. Nobody pays to be included, and no guide can buy a better position.
• Ordinary questions are welcome too, whether the FAQ covers it or the answer sits deeper in the guides.

Email info@freethingstodoinmanchester.com

What Happens Next

When mail arrives, anything that corrects a fact jumps the queue. A wrong meeting point or a slipped start time can cost a visitor the one free afternoon they have in Manchester, so fixes to walk details are handled first. Broader questions take longer, and some are better answered by a new guide page than by a reply. There is no mailing list, and an email address is never passed to anyone outside this site.

What This Site Does

Nothing gets booked through these pages. The walks described here are run by guides this site does not operate: five hold live listings on GuruWalk, and one sits on freetour.com pending a compliance review. Reserving a free spot, releasing it and tipping the guide all happen on the platform that carries that walk. This site shows the way and takes no part in any reservation.

Anything about a place already reserved begins with the confirmation email, sent by GuruWalk or freetour.com depending on which of the six walks was booked. That message holds the reference, the meeting point and a direct line to the guide. Only the guide can handle a late start, a missed rendezvous or a last-minute switch, because the walk is theirs, not this site's. A booking query sent here just sits unanswered.

Two things in that confirmation deserve attention before anyone writes to this site. First, the meeting point: Manchester guides assemble at precise places, a named square, a library entrance, a spot by the cathedral, and a vague description is how walkers miss the group entirely. Second, the cancellation window, set by each guide and still binding on a free, pay-what-you-want booking. The guide's own page on the platform in question settles both matters.

Still weighing it up? The walk categories gather the six free walks into one group, and the guides set out which Manchester attractions cost nothing, which come free only under conditions, and how tipping works when a walk is pay what you want. Most questions are answered somewhere in those pages already.