I really do not know where the nice comments have come from on this site. This hotel was unfortunately booked by someone else for a three day business trip for myself and a colleague.

The rooms are actually advertised at £150 per night, but we had a bargain of £75. I really would not pay £7.50 to stay here. Breakfast is about another £12, but if you value your life you will eat out!

When you arrive at the hotel they ask for payment up front. I now know why and guess that several guests may have previously left without paying.

As someone else pointed out, out of the 3 lifts only one actually worked. This took quite some time to arrive since it was the only working lift in the building. We met a man from New York who booked on the internet, and was very disappointed with what he had come to.

In its time, it probably was a really nice hotel, but I am guessing that would have been around 100 years ago, because it really does not look as though it has been decorated since.

The carpets are really dirty. The hall ways are really wide, high, long and very creepy. It was just like something out of 'The Shining'. I was waiting for a little kid to come along on his tricycle. Off the corridor are several part opened eeeeery doors, which I assume are leading to cupboards or something. In the day time, some of the staff offices were along the same corridor, and they left their doors open - you could see the state of their rooms. Really dirty, dusty, with cobwebs, and what looked like ant powder on the floor.

The first night the fire alarm went off at 12am, 3am and 4am. We reported it to the staff at the desk and they were not very apologetic and just said it was people smoking in their room. The alarm continued to go off at short bursts through out the day for the whole stay. The second night we managed to sleep through, but the alarm went off again at 1am on the 3rd night. If you are hoping for a restful stay then what ever you do, dont book here!

Possibly the worst hotel I've stayed in in the last ten years or regular travel. Booked for proximity to Central Station, the hotel is dirty, dingy, threadbare, smelly and doesn't appear to have been decorated for about 10 years. I found myself apologising to a group a Scandinavians waiting for the one (barely) functioning lift, for the state of the hotel.
There are several other good hotels witin a stones throw, whatever else you do - chose one of those.

Quality Hotel? Surely an ironic joke.

I will recomend other travellers to find another hotel. This hotel has an excellent location, but has the quality of a backpacker hostel. The staff was very friendly and did their best to cover up for the low standard at this hotel. Only 1 of 3 elevators where running (temporarly they said). The whorst thing was the fire alarm, that startet several times night and day. When it started it seemed like the staff just turn it off as soon as they could, but what if it was a real fire...

Here is an historic hotel located in the very heart of Glasgow just outside of central station. It is apparent that at one time this was a most opulent, desirable place to visit, dine, dance... If you read the history of the building and its guests you can't help but want to visit. The interior boasts wood carved framed windows, 30 foot ceilings, large rooms, magnficent windows, beautiful wood carved wide staircases. The property itself is tremendous in size. Unfortunately daydreaming about its past doesn't make up for its downfalls: (1) it's very run down (2) the rooms stink of cigarette smoke - and don't try to open the windows because it's the smoke from the sidewalk smokers that waft into the rooms (3) noisy! tons of construction outside. On the Upside (1) it's centrally located (CENTRAL STATION) (2) front desk and other staff are EXTREMELY HELPFUL and KIND! (3) it's cheap! though breakfast did run us about 100USD (a meal that should have cost us around 30USD) As a tourist you should definitely drop in but I wouldn't necessarily stay....