HotelChatter - Glasgow

CitizenM Coming to Glasgow, With Amsterdam-Made Rooms

amandak — 2008-08-20T09:34:13-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/CitizenM_Amsterdam_Room.jpg" class="imgborder"> We <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/28/10348/8910/hotels/CitizenM_Plans_On_Expanding_Over_to_the_UK_Cocktails_Included">already heard</a> that the innovative pod-ness that is the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/CitizenM%20Hotels">Citizen M</a> hotel chain is planning on opening the CitizenM Glasgow sometime around October next year, but now we're hearing more info about it.The Scottish version of CitizenM will have 180 rooms and they're building it next to the Theatre Royal. Well, in fact, they're building most of it in Amsterdam: all the "pod" rooms will actually be built in a factory in Amsterdam, then shipped to Glasgow and "slotted into place on top of each other". Neat.The marketing fizz is always that CitizenM is "affordable luxury"--affordable in Glasgow apparently means rooms starting from £54 (US$100) which we have to agree is reasonable. Since CitizenM

Room With an Anti-View: The View From The ABode Hotel is ATrocious

amandak — 2008-08-07T09:00:06-05:00

<![CDATA[You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view. <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Anti_View_ABode_Glasgow.jpg" class="imgborder"> Maybe we're not being fair to Glasgow's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Abode+Hotel/ian/174290/">ABode Hotel</a>. First,

ABode Glasgow Has "Enviable" Rooms That We Don't Envy

amandak — 2008-06-30T09:15:08-05:00

There's one thing that instantly annoys us about the ABode Hotel Glasgow: that arty capitalization of the second letter. Any self-respecting word processing software immediately whips that "B" into a lowercase letter, and so it should, we think.

But let's get beyond such pedantic issues for a second. The ABode in Glasgow has promise: we like that its 59 rooms are classified into four levels, comfortable, desirable, enviable and fabulous. (Much like W Hotels categories of rooms--wonderful, spectacular, fabulous, mega, wow, etc.")

Plus, it's centrally located near train stations and they give you free WiFi in the café. So far so good.

Room With an Anti-View: The Dirty Walls of Glasgow

amandak — 2007-11-21T09:20:19-05:00

<![CDATA[You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/AntiViewRamadaGlasgow.jpg" class="imgborder">You'd have to check a lot of our Anti-Views to find a view

Room with an Anti-View: Train Tracks At Jurys Inn Glasgow

amandak — 2007-08-23T08:54:40-05:00

<![CDATA[You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Anti_ViewJurysInnGlasgow.jpg" class="imgborder">Unless you're some kind of trainspotting freak, then this view from rooms at