Chill Factor^e, commonly pronounced as either "Chill Factor

Wind chill

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" or "Chill Factory

Factory

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", is a £31M real snow indoor ski centre

Indoor ski slope

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 located in the Trafford Park

Trafford Park

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 area of Manchester

Manchester

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, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. Designed by Faulknerbrowns Architects the centre opened in November 2007 at which time it was the longest in the United Kingdom and the widest in the world, at 180 metres (590.6 ft) long and 100 metres (328.1 ft) wide at its widest point.

Slope facilities

The main slope is served by two drag lifts, suspended from the ceiling thus widening the available piste area and allowing for easier maintenance of the slope. This differs from the other centres in the UK where the lift supports are on the piste. In addition to the main slope, the centre features a nursery slope, a luge

Luge

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 track, and dedicated snowplay and tubing areas.

Alpine Street

The centre also includes a number of shops and restaurants in a themed 'Alpine Village

Alps

The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....

' area. This includes the following outlets:

• Castle In The Air (Lloyds No1 bar
  Wetherspoons
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• The world's only Dare2B
  Regatta (clothing)
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   store
• Subvert Boardstore
• Snow & Rock
• Fredrick's Ice Cream
• Quiksilver
  Quiksilver
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• The North Face
  The North Face
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• Nando's
  Nando's
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• Costa Coffee
  Costa Coffee
  Costa Coffee is a British coffeehouse company founded in 1971 by Italian brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa, as a wholesale operation supplying roasted coffee to caterers and specialist Italian coffee shops. Since 1995 it has been a subsidiary of Whitbread, since when the company has grown to over...
  
  
• Crystal Ski Holidays

On the upper level of the village is The Eiger, Chillis and The Mont Blanc Restaurant feature boasting the impressive 'slope side' viewing balconies and conference/event facilities.
Freestyle nights are every other Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with other events taking place right through the year.
In May 2011, Chill Factor^e will be hosting the UK's first Snowbombing

Snowbombing

Snowbombing is a popular week-long winter sports and music festival held annually in the spring at the Austrian ski resort of Mayrhofen.The event has been run since 2000 when it was first held at the French resort of Risoul as an après-ski nightclub promotional exercise started by English promoters...

event.

External links

• Faulknerbrowns Architects