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Mint Hotel Glasgow

Finnieston Street
by SECC
Glasgow G3 8HN

Tel +44 (0)141 240 1002

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Jamie Stevens, manager, with Miss Glasgow 2011 at The Scottish Hotel Awards

Jamie Stevens, manager, with Miss Glasgow 2011 at The Scottish Hotel Awards

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Mint Hotel Glasgow

Review below ▼   "Smart in all the details, an excellent city choice"
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Smart in all the details, an excellent city choice


Awards   2011 > Business Hotel of Year | Rising Star Manager [Jamie Stevens]

Other guides    AA 4 stars & 1 rosette | VS 3 stars | GTBS silver | Foodstars™ 4

Rooms 164

 

Judges' notes

In Glasgow, the Clyde's waterfront has slowly been regenerated and Mint Hotel Glasgow, Business Hotel of the Year 2011, has a position becoming ever more plum. It's beside the Clyde Arc (aka Squinty Bridge) and SECC; close to the exciting Riverside Museum by Zaha Hadid. BBC and STV studios are just across the water. There's a large terrace where on warmer days drinks and food are served. It's all quite metro. Parking is easy (and with some packages, free).

Inside you'll find a bar / glassy coffee lounge area facing reception and beyond that is the hotel's successful City Café restaurant. On this level are meeting facilities; upstairs, a useful fitness studio and a real bonus is free membership of Green's Health Club across the road for full leisure facilities.

Best rooms face the river [river view package]; but all are similar. Whilst neither large nor showy, Mint bedrooms are a masterclass in getting things right: good desk and lamp, free wi-fi, Apple iMac computer / TV; stocked mini-bar; iron and board; good showers with hand-held shower head, well-lit de-misting mirror, magnifying mirror, plenty shelf space. Floor-to-ceiling windows give light and air: while there's air-con, the windows open too. Colour palette is pale, tranquil.

City Café is impressive. It has a good track record over the years and is on form at the moment. Fresh, interesting menus and well-crafted food - much better than one might have expected in a business-type hotel. Very many wines by the glass. You might even want to raise a toast to the folk who shaped this intelligent hotel or to dynamic manager Jamie Stevens who won Rising Star Manager 2011.

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4 Silver Stars - City Hotel

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