Expert reviews
“Suave and seductive in dark wood and grey tones, Dakota carries a strong design concept from low-lit basement restaurant to light-filled suites. Rooms are very spacious and feature appealing sitting areas as well as inviting beds.”
“At this extremely stylish addition to Glasgow’s hotel scene, the textured, neutral decor creates a restful, subdued atmosphere. That feeling continues in guest rooms that are beautifully decorated in soft browns and white.”
“One of the classiest hotels in Glasgow, an impressive addition to the Dakota brand created by Glaswegian hotelier Ken McCulloch and his designer wife Amanda. An old Works and Pension building in the city centre transformed into a stylish modern boutique hotel offering affordable luxury and excellent cuisine.”
What guests liked
- Top location
- Comfortable beds
- Free Wifi
- Friendly staff
All you need to know
Dakota Hotels are a prominent hospitality chain in the UK, boasting 5 establishments spread throughout the region, each featuring a grill restaurant in the style of a brasserie.
The Glasgow hotel is a remarkable 83-room property equipped with smart TVs, rapid internet connectivity, private bathrooms, and monsoon showers. Its external architecture would seamlessly blend into a metropolis like New York or Chicago, all while preserving its Scottish allure.
An elegant menu is available at The Grill, the hotel’s onsite dining facility, and the contemporary bar is home to an exclusive Champagne Room and cigar terrace, providing a wide range of cocktails and wines.
Dakota enjoys a strategic position in the heart of the city, less than a mile from railway stations and the Hydro event space. Additionally, it’s just a short stroll away from the city’s retail sector and cultural points of interest.
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Location
Recent guest reviews
6 October 2025
Couldn’t ask for better
Modern clean and great staff
Nice big rooms
6 October 2025
Fabulous
Mini bar supplies on the house. Comfortable bed, coffee machine and great cocktail bar
5 October 2025
Fabulous
The room was large and comfortable. The bathroom was also very large and clean. The room decor was unique. The bedding was excellent.
There wasn't a power outlet in the bathroom.
3 October 2025
As a regular visitor I am never disappointed with the hotel and its staff
Great Hotel and wonderful staff
Full English breakfast a bit sparse
30 September 2025
Would highly recommend this to anyone?
The room was so comfortable
No facilities like a gym
29 September 2025
Exceptional
Nice hotel food was great
28 September 2025
Fabulous hotel ❤️x
Lovely big room with everything you need ❤️x
28 September 2025
Fabulous
Good position within walking distance of most things in Glasgow.
Decor and lighting dark making it slightly difficult to find your way around!
28 September 2025
Very good
Newer, clean. Nice room.
Felt too far away from the heart of the city.
28 September 2025
Fabulous
Attention to detail outstanding. Definitely be back
No bath
27 September 2025
Very tasteful hotel and room, very comfortable stay. Too isolated from restaurants, etc., and rom li
Beds extremely comfortable. Very spacious room, tastefully decorated. Very pleasant and responsive staff.
Location is separated from the most active areas of downtown. Lighting in the room was too dim, even with every light on. Still needed a flashlight to find dark items of clothing.
27 September 2025
Very comfortable with cosy, intimate ambience. Great Wifi for business -Download & upload fast.
A very comfortable quiet central location with luxurious rooms and excellent wifi for an international business meeting by Zoom. Staff were very professional and welcoming. Rooms were very quiet, bathrooms very modern, bedding was superb. The most comfortable hotel bed I have slept in.
The decor is very dark and lighting very low and zone dependent ie downlights over breakfast tables and bedrooms dark if searching thrugh a suitcase. Adds to the ambiance but the interior designer forgot that people over 50 need more light. When you have to take our your iPhone torch to read the coffee pods or look in your suitcase, there's not enough light.
25 September 2025
Exceptional
Everything was great. Beautiful room, nice staff, good food. Loved the mini bar and the other goodies in the room.
The bar service was a little slow. Maybe it was a busy night.
25 September 2025
Great location, very clean and comfy and quite expensive
Rooms were very comfy and good coffee machine
Price of breakfast
25 September 2025
Modern comfort
Very spacious room and well equipped bathroom. Comfortable bed. Nice small details in well placed lighting (including well lit desk area I would have appreciated if working). Freshly cooked breakfast. Staff all pleasant.
Shame that 'the library' where I was looking forward to enjoying a drink, was shut for private function whole evening of my stay. Hotel was quite difficult to find on foot due to odd (non chronological) numbering on street (and no-one local seemed to know where it was!)
24 September 2025
Lovely
Lovely room felt relaxed
Adding service with no notice made drink prices a bit expensive
24 September 2025
Our stay was brilliant well looked after by Stephanie Higgins she went above and beyond and everyone else made us very
Everything
I loved everything about it
22 September 2025
Fabulous
Room ery comfortable staff very friendly Food first class
Expensive for room only Saturday
22 September 2025
Good level of service
Well soundproofed bedroom Comfortable beds Good showers Good food
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22 September 2025
Wonderful, clean and comfortable
Great location and exceptional staff !!
Wish there was an onsite gym
16 September 2025
Best hotel I have ever stayed at and can’t wait to book my next trip here
Beautiful, clean room that I couldn’t fault in the slightest! Amazing comfy bed with out of this world, cloud like pillows, was so clean I couldn’t find one bit of dirt or dust and what a treat to have not only sky tv in the room but the full movie package, making this room so comfortable and like being at home I don’t think I could ever stay somewhere else!!!
I have not one complaint!!!! Amazing!!!
15 September 2025
Welcoming staff in modern, comfortable building.
Staff was wonderful—check-in, bellman, Jack’s Bar—all cheerful, friendly, helpful. Modern, spacious, comfortable—great shower.
Location could be better.
11 September 2025
Will stay there again if I’m in Glasgow.
Sophisticated hotel. Excellent staff, clean and well-appointed room.
Just a couple blocks further away from where I spent most of my time, but still a convenient location.
8 September 2025
Exceptional
Comfortable and easy to use. Very stylish
8 September 2025
Fantastic
Sorry did not book any breakfast.i cannot fault anything in the hotel..our stay was fantastic
Nothing
7 September 2025
Excellent quality and value for moiney
Everything
7 September 2025
Loved every minute of the stay!
Loved every bit, cleanliness, location, the staff, amazing
A lot of dust floating around, but I don’t think they can do much about that.
7 September 2025
A welcoming hotel
Welcoming staff. Lovely room and very comfortable bed
The hotel still uses small single use plastic bottles for bathroom amenities.
5 September 2025
Exceptional
Staff service and food was fantastic.
2 September 2025
Exceptional
The hotel was in a great location, and the staff were very helpful.
1 September 2025
Fantastic hotel! Brilliant staff & the bed was like sleeping on the clouds 🥰
Stunning hotel!! Beautiful bedroom with thee comfiest bed I’ve ever slept in…..bliss! The staff were absolutely amazing, so friendly & helpful & genuinely warm kind & nothing was a bother. 10/10 x 10 😊
Nothing
31 August 2025
Gorgeous hotel - we will be back!
The hotel was spotlessly clean and very comfortable. The staff were very friendly and helpful, we will definitely be back!
Nothing, everything was perfect
31 August 2025
We would stay there again and again.!
All the staff were pleasant to talk to and definitely would do anything to make your stay exceptional. The front desk staff, especially Holly, were fantastic. The rooms were quiet, allowing great sleep. The building is located in an area where there's very little street noise at night. It's a 15 minute walk from everything in Glasgow city center.
30 August 2025
Luxurious, boujee, friendly and comfortable
Beautiful swanky hotel, very friendly helpful staff, cleanest room I’ve ever stayed in.
Nothing
29 August 2025
Very good
Lovely staff and bar was great
29 August 2025
Fabulous
Absolutely no issue with the breakfast but overpriced for what was on offer. £24pp
27 August 2025
Fabulous
The room upgrade offered was great value, and gave us a lot more space. The Dakota Grill service and food was excellent.
26 August 2025
Very Good
Great location, friendly staff, and very clean.
The room was quite dark. Poor lighting and no obvious power outlet for plugging in a hair dryer where there is good light. Bathrooms are lovely, but a magnifying mirror would be helpful for those of us with poor eyesight who need it to apply makeup. Small but important detail.
22 August 2025
Very good
The bed was very comfortable And the staff were very friendly Hotel very clean
Hotel was up a steep hill from the centre
21 August 2025
Exceptional
The place was beautiful and the staff were very helpful and friendly
The bar price
19 August 2025
All as expected
Another nice stay at this decent city centre hotel.
18 August 2025
Very luxurious rooms, great service, and a scottish breakfast to die for.. see uou VERY soon.
Location and decor
N/A
18 August 2025
Exceptional
The contemporary decor, excellent standard of finish along with an extremely comfortable bed and powerful shower. The staff were very attentive. I would definitely stay again.
Not applicable.
14 August 2025
Great Hotel
I like that the dakota was moody and dimly lit, super clean and great staff.
Nothing
13 August 2025
Exceptional
Really nice upscale hotel. This place feels 5 star and the staff provides that level of service. Room was very large and not even the largest king they have. Housecleaning daily and top notch. I personally love the dark decor it has a level of sophisticated charm and privacy much like some European hotels I’ve been in. Nice bar and restaurant. Friendly staff . I would absolutely only stay here if I come back to Glasgow
If a long stay a gym would be nice
12 August 2025
Exceptional
Staff - staff - staff - location - the room 💫
Nothing at all everything is perfect
11 August 2025
Fabulous
Easily accessible, great attention to detail, extremely comfortable bed, onsite restaurant and bar, and exceptionally clean with a great vibe. Very helpful staff.
11 August 2025
Always sleep so well there
Love the decor and the beds are so comfy.
Nothing it was all fantastic
11 August 2025
Fabulous
Beautiful room, loads of space with a large bathroom, entire dressing room, seating area and big bed. Its a shame we couldn't spend more time there really!
The mood lighting gave great ambience, but not 100% practical when wanting to read a book etc.
Hotel facilities
Food & Drink
- - Restaurant
- - Bar
- - Wine/champagne (additional charge)
Services
- - Room service
- - Meeting/banquet facilities (additional charge)
- - 24-hour front desk
- - Laundry (additional charge)
- - Dry cleaning (additional charge)
- - Express check-in/check-out
- - Fax/photocopying (additional charge)
- - Concierge service
- - Daily housekeeping
Outdoors
- - Terrace
General
- - Non-smoking rooms
- - Facilities for disabled guests
- - Lift
- - Heating
- - Allergy-free room
- - Non-smoking throughout
- - Air conditioning
- - Designated smoking area
Accessibility
- - Wheelchair accessible
- - Toilet with grab rails
- - Higher level toilet
- - Lower bathroom sink
- - Emergency cord in bathroom
Miscellaneous
- - Key card access
- - Smoke alarms
- - CCTV in common areas
- - CCTV outside property
- - Fire extinguishers

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7 October 2025
Very good