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A ‘Bubble Planet Experience’ with giant ball pits and an infinity room is coming to Manchester

This looks so fun.

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson - 7th January 2026

Manchester will soon welcome a ‘dreamlike world’ filled with giant, colourful bubbles, when Bubble Planet Experience makes its Manchester debut.

Expect giant ball pits, giant balloons, floating soap bubbles, and an infinity room in this brand-new-for-us immersive experience.

Bubble Planet Experience has already been visited by more than four million people in cities across the globe, including New York, Los Angeles, and London – now it’s time for its first trip to Manchester, where it’ll pop up inside Depot Mayfield.

Visitors will be able to explore 10 themed rooms, each one offering a different surreal landscape that will ‘blur the boundaries between dream and reality’.

Highlights include the Bubble Ocean, a vast expanse of bubbles designed to evoke calm and serenity, and the Infinity Room, where mirrors and shifting lights create the illusion of endless space. 

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Underwater Bubbles will transport visitors into a hypnotic aquatic world, recreating the magic and mystery of deep-sea exploration.

An infinity room at Bubble Planet Experience
An infinity room at Bubble Planet Experience

There’s also a Bubble Dome, where younger visitors can unleash their creativity in a play area, plus the chance to go on a virtual reality adventure.

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Expect dazzling light displays, interactive installations, and unexpected textures.

Bubble Planet Experience is co-produced by family entertainment producer Exhibition Hub and Fever.

Hamza El Azhar, CEO of Exhibition Hub, said: “We are delighted to be bringing Bubble Planet to Manchester for the very first time alongside the team at Fever, and to be part of a city with such a strong and celebrated cultural identity.

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“We look forward to welcoming everyone to experience a joyful, immersive adventure that sparks curiosity and wonder for all ages.”

The waitlist for early access to tickets is available HERE.

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Club de Padel to close current Manchester location to make way for more Deansgate Square skyscrapers

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson Club de Padel is moving out of Deansgate Square in Manchester

Club de Padel, the first padel club to open in Manchester, will be relocating from its Deansgate Square home.

The wildly popular sports club will close next week, as landowners Renaker begin the next phase of development of the skyscraper district.

Club de Padel is keeping its new location under wraps for now – but will be going out from its current Manchester home with a bang.

The club, which welcomed more than 100,000 people in the first year alone, will be offering free padel for all before it closes at Deansgate Square.

Club de Padel launched back in 2023, with four competition-grade courts, and has since added a Finnish sauna experience with Good Sauna, launched a best-selling clothing range with UN:IK, plus become the home for Manchester’s most popular run club with MADE Running.

As well as that, the club has been donating free courts and coaching during the school holidays to local children’s charity Wood Street Mission, and hosting events with the likes of adidas, REFY and Blank Street Coffee.

And it’s expanded fast, launching an indoor padel club across in Sheffield.

It’s been one of the city’s top sporting success stories, attracting attention from the likes of The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Hypebae and the BBC.

But now Club de Padel will be leaving its current home ahead of Renaker’s expansion of its luxury skyscraper district.

There are four state-of-the-art courts at Club de Padel
Club de Padel Manchester
Club de Padel is at the foot of the Deansgate Square towers
Club de Padel is at the foot of the Deansgate Square towers

As for that new top-secret location opening later this year – they’re promising an ‘indoor and outdoor space in an incredible location, featuring an expanded padel experience, high-end wellness and social spaces, and a year-round programme of events’.

Club de Padel founders said in a statement today: “We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve built here in Manchester — bringing padel to the city centre for the first time and introducing tens of thousands of people to the sport during our time on Deansgate.

“But this site was never meant to be permanent, and we’ve been limited in what we can build here, so the time is right to move on, grow and improve.

“We’ve learned a huge amount from our time in Manchester and from opening our second club in Sheffield last year, and we’re excited to reveal the locations of our new sites — including the new Manchester club — and begin the next phase.

“In the meantime, we want to thank everyone who has made this club so special, and invite them to enjoy a free game of padel on us.”

Club de Padel will close to begin its Manchester relocation on 14 January.

You can book a free hour of padel between 9 and 14 January, through the usual Playtomic system – you’ll be refunded for your booking in full on arrival.

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‘Big John’ is bringing his ‘BOSH’ bingo to Manchester

Danny Jones Danny Jones Big John Bosh Bingo nights tickets Manchester

Attention, all you ‘Big John’ lovers, the man himself is coming to Manchester this year for his very own ‘BOSH Bingo’ show.

Excessively large takeaway order not included*

That’s right, ‘Big John’ Fisher has gone from being a viral sensation famous for eating shedloads of Chinese and saying that one catchphrase to hosting his very own live bingo tour.

Even by his standards, his announcement video was an eye-catching one, to say the least – and we expect the event itself to be equally hilarious.

For anyone somehow unfamiliar with ‘The Boshfather’, there isn’t a single sentence that isn’t completely accurate, and that doesn’t sum up pretty much everything you need to know about the man, the myth, the legend.

Besides his son, Johnny Fisher Jr., being an aspiring boxer and fellow influencer on the side, as well as having appeared on Newsnight to talk about the UK’s multiculturalism being what makes this ‘Great Britain’ (legend), his legacy will very much be written online and on the back of a take-out menu.

Or will it?…

Riding the back of his growing popularity and being quite literally the physical representation of a British bulldog, he’s now preparing to do live shows all over the country.

Set up at the start of the New Year, the 51-year-old will be heading to Manchester city centre and more throughout 2026 for his debut BOSH Bingo tour.

Visiting 12 locations in total, he is promising “rave intervals, on stage competitions, ‘bosh’ prizes and, of course, a sprinkle of chicken balls for good measure.”

Put simply, not only the chaos of everyone’s favourite Bongo’s, “This is not your average bingo night, it’s BOSH BINGO!”

Sounds ridiculous… We’re SO there.

Coming to The Grosvenor on Oxford Road on 21 February, before heading to the likes of Leeds, Liverpool and Sheffield, just to name a few, you can grab your tickets right HERE.

Let’s just say there’s some very silly but nevertheless fun and fantastic stuff happening in town this year.

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