Glasgow Hotels

Choose a Glasgow hotel for Victorian terrace-front cafés in Merchant City or Art Deco-themed town centre tearooms. See futuristic Glasgow when the Clyde Auditorium “Armadillo” building lights up the Queen’s Dock on the waterfront, or a green city on riverside walks in Kelvingrove Park.

Glasgow neighbourhoods

Cultural Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow’s West End is the brain of the city where the Kelvingrove and Hunterian galleries sit by the university campus. Bohemian life buzzes in Ashton Lane’s hippie tearooms. Stay at a Glasgow hotel near the one-and-a-half-mile stretch of Sauchiehall Street where the pedestrian walkway of high-street shops crosses the city’s grid of streets. Restored Victorian residences now house trendy shops at Merchant City, east of the centre. The Armadillo glints on the revitalised Clyde waterfront..

Shopping in Glasgow

Galleries of luxury boutiques like Vivienne Westwood are laid out like an Escher maze in the restored 19th-century Princes Square mall in central Glasgow. Step out of your hotel in Glasgow to the corner of Sauchiehall Street and Buchanan Street for a “wee spree” in John Lewis at bright and breezy Buchanan Galleries. Diamonds and Swiss watches illuminate window displays under the classy, Parisian-style mall at Argyll Arcade. Tartan woollens and Celtic regalia at the Barras weekend street market in the East End are miles better on the wallet than the central tourist stores.

Eating and drinking in Glasgow

Head to the West End for posh brasserie nosh like Perthshire pork belly and pigeon at the Ubiquitous Chip. Roux-trained Scottish chef Brian Maule gives Gordon Ramsay a run for his money at Chardon d’Or on central West Regent Street. A three-storey Victorian townhouse is a sumptuous setting for Indian tapas at Mother India. Follow the Art Deco signs to sister restaurants Gandolfi Fish and Café Gandolfi for Skye catches and juicy black pudding. Mushy haggis, neeps and tatties are washed down with cask ales at Blackfriars gastropub on Bell Street, while comfort grub like meatballs, burritos and burgers line the stomach at town centre Nice N Sleazy.

Culture and nightlife in Glasgow

Merchant City’s cobbles will lead you to whisky-fuelled ceilidh and folk evenings at Gaelic Glasgow’s Babbity Bowsters. Indie bands and DJ sets lift the old market roof behind the brash neon façade at Barrowland Ballroom. The Arches showcases rib-tickling comedy underground at Central Station. Highbrow recitals, symphonies and folk fill the cast-iron space at classical venue Old Fruitmarket. Stan Laurel tipped his bowler hat at Merchant City’s gem Britannia Panopticon Music Hall.

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