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The price is the price
What we quote is what you pay. No cleaning fee at checkout, no service charge, no booking fee, no 'city levy' invented at the last screen.
About us
A local operator, not a booking platform
Cosy Key Stays runs furnished accommodation and cleaning across Greater Manchester. We own or directly manage everything we let, employ our own cleaners, and answer our own messages.
The short version
How this started
It started with one property and a fairly ordinary observation: the gap between what guests were paying and what they were actually getting was wider than it needed to be.
Hotels were expensive and impersonal for anyone staying more than a few nights. Short lets were a lottery — sometimes excellent, sometimes a mattress on a floor with a lockbox and no way to reach anyone. Neither worked well for the people we kept meeting: contractors on six month placements, families between houses, people put up by an insurer after a flood.
So we built the thing we'd want. Properties furnished properly rather than cheaply, one inclusive price with nothing bolted on at checkout, self check-in so arrival time never matters, and a phone number that reaches someone who can actually make a decision.
The cleaning arm came next, out of necessity. After going through several cleaning companies and being let down at 1pm on a changeover day more than once, we hired and trained our own team. That team now works for landlords, agents and hosts across the region — which is how a side effect became a second business.
Directly managed. Own cleaning teams. All bills included. Greater Manchester. No booking fees. Real people
How we operate
Six things we don't budge on
None of this is revolutionary. It's just the stuff that gets quietly dropped once a business gets big enough to stop noticing.
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We tell you if we can't help
If we haven't got what you need, we say so and point you somewhere that might. It costs us a booking and earns us the next three.
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Nothing is subcontracted
Our cleaners are employed by us. Our maintenance contacts are people we've used for years. Nobody in the chain is a stranger.
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Properties are furnished properly
Decent beds, real mattresses, kitchen equipment that works, and enough storage for a long stay. It costs more up front and pays for itself.
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Problems get fixed, not managed
Report something and it gets sorted, usually within 24 hours. We're local, so we can actually turn up.
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No party lets
We screen bookings and we decline the ones that look wrong. Our neighbours put up with us because of it.
The business today
Three things, done properly
Serviced accommodation
The main business. Furnished apartments and houses across all ten boroughs, let by the night, week or month to contractors, corporate guests, relocating families and people on leisure breaks.
HMO house shares
A sub-category of the accommodation side: licensed, managed professional house shares where you rent a private room on a rolling monthly term with every bill included.
Cleaning services
A standalone business with its own clients. Changeovers, end of tenancy, deep cleans and commercial contracts — you don't need to be an accommodation client to book it.
Talk to a person
Enquiries come straight to us, and we read all of them. Email hello@cosykey.co.uk. We're about, mon–sun, 8am–8pm.