I stayed at this hotel with my parents. They had a very large, light and airy double room on the 2nd floor with views to the botanic gardens to the side. I had a dungeon like dark and dingy extremely small double room on the basement floor, with it's window located under the external steps up to the front door, and bars on the (draughty) window!

Seeing the two different rooms it is easy to see why this hotel gets such mixed reviews; I think each guests experience will depend very much on which room they are allocated (tip: if possible, avoid the dungeon like basement!).

Overall there were nice touches but it struck me as looking 'shabby chic', a little worn around the edges.

Not the worst place in the world but not the best either....

My wife and I stayed at the Clifton and it is a lovely friendly place but does have some jarring edges which are suprising this quality inspected day and age. The building itself is a lovely old building with winding staircase over 3 floors and lovely high ceilings, and huge bathrooms and bedrooms. Comfy clean bedrooms.

Jarring edges is the huge television sat on a table in the reception/residents lounge blaring away 24x7, dunno why this is happening. Neon sign yeah kind of brings the tone down. Also several TV channels lose the signal every so minute or so so the TV emits a huge bzzzzzttt each time. Room 5 shower mounted slightly low so you need to stoop under it. No shampoo in the room. Most bedrooms doors are fairly dinted and need a proper rubdown and gloss. Tinned tomatoes and mushrooms at breakfast, although they tell you this as you order. Come on, it's not that difficult to switch to fresh veg!

But we loved Cathy who works so hard (hint give the lady a payrise) and the price was good so really it was fine.

Be aware the hotel is in the West End which is a good 30 minute walk to downtown Glasgow. But there are loads of good restaurants and bars and shops all around.

Stayed in this hotel for 1 night for our wedding anniversity. Please ignore the other reviews there is nothing wrong with this hotel. Get the honeymoon suite and you won't be disappointed.

Got welcomed at the door and was shown to the room, the room was absoluty enourmous containg a 4 poster bed, 3 piece suite, table and chairs for 4!!! All the furniture was antique and looked amazing in this room. The bathroom has black and white tiles, corner bath, wc and bidet. NO PROBLEMS WITH ROOM.

Breakfast wasn't that great but it was your table cereal, toast, bacon and eggs etc,

No regrets and would definatly recommend on staying here for a special night

This "hotel" was booked for me for work purposes-had I seen it myself I would'nt have touched it with a barge pole. It has neon signs in the windows, which suggest a more transient stay than a whole night, for a start!

On arrival here, I was told that the room which had been booked and confirmed for me by my company in August, was not available, but, out of the goodness of their hearts, the hotel staff had very kindly arranged for me to stay in another hotel!!(Far worse than this one as well-I was assaulted by a very foul odour on opening the front door), run by a rottweiller receptionist who wouldnt let me near anything until I gave the company credit card details. Very fly-by-night! Didnt trust them so wouldnt stay there!

My colleague, whose booking was made at the same time, and who arrived
after me WAS given a room (at The Clifford), but what a room-grime everywhere, grey nets at the window, damp patches on the wall-what a health hazard-and that was before we looked at the bathroom, which was tired and smelt as if something had died in there!

Needless to say we took ourselves off and stayed in a proper hotel for the 2 nights we had booked. Please don't stay here!!