Manchester Treasure & Scavenger Hunts
Urban adventures bringing the secrets of Manchester to life.
- Work together to solve fun challenges & puzzling clues Perfectly balanced & location-based.
- Guided by clues sent to your phones Messages sent to you and your team's phones.
- Explore Manchester's historic landmarks and hidden gems Our speciality, discovering and showing off amazing places!
- Discover top-rated pubs, bars and cafes - all optional Optional breaks to catch a rest along the way.
- Compete Set the fastest time and see you ranking on your end certificate. for top spot on the Manchester leaderboard
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Next Steps
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- 1. Select your game, pick a trail of your choice and receive your welcome email.
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- 2. Rally your team and enter a team name and phone number(s) into the system.
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- 3. Receive your welcome text, then head to the start location on a day and time of your choice.
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- 4. Text START to receive the first in a series of cryptic directions. Solve the puzzles to unravel your mystery.
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- 5. Discover unique places, the secret and hidden of your city - and great independant pubs/cafes!
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Manchester Experiences
Each trail takes place in a different area of the city - click each tile to learn more!
Heart of the Hive
The rebllious spirit of the worker bee… more
Northern Quarter Nooks
Art born from industry… more
Through the Ages
Travel from ancient Manchester to discover the city's northern soul… more
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Action-packed Treasure Hunts & Scavenger Hunts in Manchester
How the Manchester days out work
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Discover Manchester's secret places
- Experience Manchester's unique places and share stories in independent pubs & cafes, curated for each Manchester Treasure Hunt / Scavenger Hunt.
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Fun challenges
- Engaging puzzles and captivating stories reveal Manchester in a new light.
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Play together or competitively
- Work as a team or compete head-to-head to set the fastest time on our Manchester leaderboard.
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Fully flexible bookings
- Alter your booking freely; change the date, time, number of people or chosen Manchester Treasure Hunt / Scavenger Hunt. Even stop and start once you've begun.
Fun activity for all groups
Manchester Treasure Hunt / Scavenger Hunt Reviews
The great things you say about CityDays Treasure Hunts & Scavenger Hunts
Gill Slabo
So much fun. Did it with my teen boys and we all had a good time
Sneaky Shepherds
We had such great fun! A good way to spend time together and the clues were hard but doable!
Sapphires
We had a fabulous time doing the Forbidden Fayre tour in London. At this time of year it was just gorgeous with all the…
The Exchange Hunters
Crawl was a lot of fun and very creative. I loved the suggestions of stops along the way and would even have enjoyed if…
Bruto & Asti
Excellent day out with the Mrs. Found a few lovely bars on route. Well worth it.
Team Action
Absolutely amazing - how have I never known of this trip before! Wasn’t too easy, got your brain working in a fun way. …
Muthers little sparklers
Love it! It didn’t take us two hours, though, A lot more because we were so busy looking at everything we saw, I’ve bee…
MigsGang
Really fun outing and amazing paths to explore. Thoroughly recommend it!
J’s Birthday Bash
Such fun and we got to see so many parts of Greenwich we’d never visited before as well as places we didn’t know existe…
SaCa
Great tour, perfect distance and plenty of stops on the way. Lovely day out just before the Christmas break!
Date Night
Brilliant fun and well crafted clues.
Comfortably Dumb
Excellent questions and cleverly devised route. I particularly liked finding an unexpected grave of a famous person - n…
The Broons
It was such a good day and we explored a lot of Manchester. This was the second mystery day tour we did and it was good…
Roberts
Great day with kids
The Broons
We’re on holiday in Manchester and this was one of our favourite days. We really enjoyed exploring Manchester and takin…
Girls on the go
Was a brilliant experience and took you to great places. Definitely recommend it as was so much fun and great clues. Wo…
Christmas Queers
That was excellent - really fun clues, not too tricky to solve, and great lights seen along the way. Loved the way it m…
Team SL
Really fun afternoon with 9 and 11 year old kids. Clues weren’t too simple or too tricky. Fantastic to see some bits of…
CelebSuett
This is our second trail with CityDays and once again we loved it, exploring London and having drinks and fun is the be…
The Jasper Squad
Really fun few hours doing the Festive Light Trail. Took us a route we would never walk ourselves and took in some beau…
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