easyHotel Glasgow

I certainly wasn’t feeling ‘easy’ like a Sunday morning after spending a night here thank you very much Mr. Richie! Bah.
Due to an ongoing ‘issue’ (long story) we had the (dis)pleasure of experiencing Glasgow’s very own easyHotel (with it’s daft small ‘e’ and capital ‘H’ so it’s like a flippin’ Apple product or something) It wouldn’t have normally been an option we would usually go for but at such short notice we had no choice. We didn’t even manage to get a very cheap room which I thought was this hotels main schtick? We paid £69 for a double room which is more than we’ve had to pay in the past for places twice/​three times the size as this room/​cupboard. It was a depressing room and I had to laugh at the fact you pay more for a window! Even prison cells have windows man! Sheesh… it wasn’t terrible enough to warrant a 1 star review as the staff were friendly enough (although initially they did give us the wrong room/​key card) & there wasn’t like a plague of cockroaches in our room or owt.
For our money we got a very small room, basic (very high up) TV (remote control is an extra £2.50 so it’s useless unless you pay that), a mad coathanger/​hook thang & toilet/​shower room that was reminiscent of an aeroplane toilet. The only storage is under the bed. If you want Wi-​Fi you have to pay extra.
Our bed wasn’t particularly uncomfortable & luckily for me I don’t mind just 1 (quite thin) pillow but our sheets were stained with some suspicious looking dark brown (blood?) substance right at the part where you pull the sheet to your face *shudder*, so we had to turn the sheet around. The tiny shower room & loo combined (s’nice) did make me feel as though I was about to take off but the shower itself was actually alright flow wise, annoying thing was the lack of space to manœuvre without the shower curtain attacking you! Wah! You also have to make sure the door is properly shut as the steam apparently sets off the fire alarms. Rooms also don’t have any air-​con or temperature controls & you can’t open the window so if you’re cold/​hot in the night you can’t really do much about it.
I had a pretty rubbish sleep thanks to a combination of feeling a bit icky about the stained sheets, feeling really hot/​stuffed up due to lack of air & also the noise coming not only from within the hotel (doors banging, people shouting, etc…) but also the noise in the street from outside the hotel. Our window looked right onto Cambridge Street so traffic & people noise on this Friday night was pretty non-​stop. Even with ear plugs in I could hear so much.
If you want a cheap, comfortable, decent room for the night I wouldn’t recommend staying here unless you’re a heavy sleeper & you like feeling a bit claustrophobic. I hope we never have to stay here again. I would MUCH rather stay in a Travelodge/​Premier Inn or B&B than here if I needed somewhere reasonably priced to stay again.
Sorry Stelios; I like your flights but your hotels suck.

Pretty good room for easyhotel standards. Well priced, big room, decent bathroom. However, the fact that wifi is not available for purchase is really odd. I’ve been able to buy wifi passes at every other easyhotel I’ve stayed at. If I knew there would not be any wifi accessibility, I would not have stayed here. Also, tv is way too high so I could not see most of the shows.

Esta es mi segunda vez que pruebo EasyHotel para un viaje. La otra también fue en UK, en Londres. Realmente me parece bastante barato comparado con otros hoteles pero creo que puede haber cosas con más encanto está claro.
En esta ocasión estaba muy bien ubicado en Glasgow, muy cerca de la zona centro y de la estación de bus y tren. Estuvimos dos noches y fue una estancia bastante normal, sólo dormíamos allí porque la verdad no tiene ventana y mucho espacio por lo que estar allí es un poco agobiante.
Los recepcionistas majos y la limpieza estaba bien aunque la cortina del baño, por favor, desde aquí pido un llamamiento para que la quemen, porque estaba llenita de manchurrones negros de moho.
Nos salió como a 23 euros por persona la noche y valió la pena ya que luego nos íbamos a Edimburgo y ahí pudimos gastar un poquito más.
Debajo del hotel tenéis dos restaurantes, uno italiano y otro asiático. El asiático tiene mejor pinta, al final no lo probamos porque a las horas en las que estábamos en el hotel no estaba abierto pero en el Unilocal lo ponen bien
Truco: preguntamos por el wifi y nos dijeron que no había. Que sólo hay internet en la recepción, donde hay un saloncito y que puedes usar el ordenador. Pero nosotros, que estábamos en la planta 2, pillábamos el wifi y fenomenal.

I stayed here with my teenage daughter at half term. It does exactly what it says on the tin… clean, comfortable, cheap.
We had a twin room with en-​suite loo and shower — it was like a little ships cabin, cosy and comfy and I was happy to pay the £2.50 for the TV remote — this was supposed to be a daily charge but they never asked for more money…
Staff were very friendly, kind and helpful and I would definitely stay here again if I was up for a short stay or on a budget.

I stayed in Glasgow for work last week and decided to try the Easyhotel. I was arriving up there around 9pm and leaving for work at around 7.30am, so didn’t see the point in paying the nearly £50 difference between this room (£29) and a less basic option of £85.
As someone who can get lost walking in a straight line, I found this fairly easy to find. I did take one wrong turn but that is because I can’t read maps. I’m sure other more practical people would find it very easy.
The overall décor is in the familiar ‘Easy’ branding. The reception is spacious and I noticed a vending machine.
For £29 I got a double bed, clean towels and a shower/​toilet all in one room. You pay extra for the TV remote (£2.50), wifi, late checkout, cleaning (if staying more than 3 nights). Being a sociable person, I wasn’t interested in paying for the remote as I decided to go out for a drink after a quick freshen up.
Well, I say ‘a’ drink very loosely. That was the intention. However, I got back around 1am. So really for a total of about 6.5 hours use of the room, I had all I needed. I found the bed comfortable and I slept like a log.
If I was staying for more than one night, I would probably consider other more conventional hotel options. But for one night when I knew I wouldn’t be in the room for very long, it was absolutely fine and would quietly recommend it to other people. Having said that if I was going away for a weekend on a budget and there was an Easyhotel option, then I would seriously consider it.
Might not be everyone’s cup of tea and maybe I’m Easy-​ily pleased (ba-​boom!), but would come back here next time I stay in Glasgow.

There are so many jokes to be made about an establishment named ‘the easy hotel’ and even more so when it says EASY right above the bed.
Decorated in Stelios’ favoured garish orange and white, this hotel is boldly branded like easyjet’s planes and whatever other areas they’re venturing into these days.
The bathroom is quite unusual, with its orange sink and shower over the floor — effectively it’s a shower room, so don’t expect a bath or shower curtain.
It’s not the cosiest of hotels, but it’s basic, cheap and clean, so is fine if you need a bargain bed for the night, but it’s not the place to be romancing, unless you wish to be branded as easy as the name suggests.