Glasgow's Cheap Hotels

The hotels.com survey finds that Glasgow hotel rooms are much cheaper than those in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh or Belfast

Glasgow is one of the UK's cheapest cities when it comes to hotel rooms, according to a survey released by hotels.com, the online hotel booking agency. The survey compares hotel room prices in major cities across the United Kingdom between April and June this year.

The average price of a hotel room in Glasgow was £73 per night. That compares with £91 for London, £98 for Belfast, £100 for Edinburgh and a massive £120 for Cardiff. The most expensive place was Bath, where rooms cost an average of £130 a night – almost twice the cost of a night in Glasgow. The only two major cities that were cheaper than Glasgow were Nottingham at £70 a night and Luton at £58. With all due respect to the last two, I think it shows that Glasgow offers the best bang per bucks in the UK at the moment.

It also shows how Glasgow has come on since the 1980s, when its reputation as a tough city meant that no-one in their right mind would think of it as a city break destination. In 1984 Glasgow only had four hotels! Today there are 114 Glasgow hotels with 12,500 rooms and with over 30,000 people working in the hotel business. And very often every hotel room is full when a big event is on.

Bearing in mind that readers of Conde Nast Traveler recently voted Glasgow the best place in Britain for foreign visitors, you'd better book well ahead if you're planning a visit. And if you're not - why not??

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