My boyfriend and I stayed here for a night while we were in Glasgow to see a band.
We paid £57 (including two "breakfasts"!).
Personally I think the cost was way to high since this is classed as a hotel not a hostel. I have stayed in a privated roomed hostel in the centre of Edinburgh for £16 and it was much cleaner and of better quality & experience than this. I assume they call it a hotel so they can charge more.
The hotel is on top of a car park so you have to go in the lift through what looked like a service entrance to the 6th floor to check-in. Where there was a high pitched alarm ringing the whole time. The staff were ok but not exactly friendly and some of them looked at you like you shouldn't be there.
The room was ok in size but it had nothing in it & it wasn't that clean. There's not even a proper bathroom since the shower, toilet and sink are all separate in the room. The shower has a semi-see through glass door, with no where private from the rest of the room to change/dry outside of the shower which wasn't really an issue for us since were a couple but I could imagine it becoming an issue if you stayed with friends/relatives. The shower also steamed up loads and it and therefore the whole room itself steamed up as well. There was a fan but it didn't seem to work.
The sink is also in the room itself and the toilet is in a tiny cupboard type room.
Since the shower isn't in a bathroom the flooring (which was dirty) was made of lino and there was no bathmat so the floor got wet as soon as you stepped out of the shower. I've never had a shower where you still don't feel clean afterwards! We were also only given 2 tiny towels and a tiny bar of soap.
The bed was really uncomfy it was pretty much just a piece of foam mattress on a block of wood with two very thin pillows. There was a tv but the picture was really bad. There was a hook with 4 hangers but aside from that no where to store your clothes so you couldn't unpack as there's no where to put your stuff. The only surface was a tiny desk. The only two plug sockets were no where near the mirror so if you wanted to do your hair etc it's not possible.
The hotel seemed to be mostly filled with young drunk people that were just shouting and wandering around in the reception, the lifts and the outside area and this was only at about 7pm. I completely understand the other comments that say it was more like a youth hostel than a hotel! The staff didn't seem at all bothered by this.
We didn't really sleep well when we returned to our room at about 1-2am as we were awoken by people slamming doors and shouting down the corridor. I also noticed that if there was any trouble or you needed to complain in the night there was no phone so you'd have to go down to the reception yourself which isn't the safest.
In the morning we went down for breakfast and the lifts were horrible. There was something smeared all over the mirror in the lift which I really don't want to know what it was!
The breakfast which we paid £3.75 each for I really wouldn't class as a breakfast. There were bits of really thin bread which were pretty much all stale, they could be toasted but the toaster barely did anything at all. There was also some really squashed cold croissants, cereal and some suspicious looking fruit salad type thing.
The fruit juice machine was all sticky and broken and sprayed it everywhere when you poured it and the hot drinks machine didn't make tea only warm water which you could add a tea bag too but there was no milk. There was other food & drink crisps etc available but it all had to be paid for. There was also not kettle in the room so if you wanted a drink outside of breakfast hours you had to pay £1.20 for it out the machine.
The hotel takes about a 30 minute walk to get to the city centre but I personally wouldn't want to walk it seeing as you have to go past boarded up buildings and massive barbed wire fences! The taxt however only cost about £4-7 which was probably the only high point of this hotel! Outside there are the usual Frankie & Bennies, Chiquittos, Nandos etc and also a bowling alley and cinema but the whole area looked a bit of a dump.
I'm not really fussy when it comes to hotels as long as they are clean, safe and comfortable and this was none of the above. I really wouldn't recommend staying here as for the same price or an extra £10 i'm sure you could get a proper hotel. Neither of us will be back.
- Etap Glasgow
