Merchant Lodge

The Merchant Lodge, also known as The Merchant City Inn is a 3 star hotel in an ideal location for anything you would like to see or do in the city.
The hotel has 40 rooms from single rooms up to family sized at great rates. The rooms are very basic but comfortable with wooden floors, pine beds and some of the ugliest curtains I have ever seen. The bathrooms are big and clean and overall the rooms at The Merchant Lodge are a great place to dump your stuff, sleep in at night and spend the rest of your time out and about in Glasgow.
The hotel serves cooked breakfast in the lovely quaint dining room which is a virtual pine palace!
Despite the amble use of pine and the horrendous curtains, this B&B is a warm, friendly and economical base camp for your visit to Glasgow.

after reading the above review, I have to disagree with expectations of a town centre hotel. In the merchant lodge i have experienced to noisest hotel room i have ever stayed in (new york, london etc etc etc). The noise that you experience is that of the local night club with is just across. I would argue that decent double glazing would simply address the issue. You can here conversations and the persistant music til 4 am. I would not suggest this would be ideal for anyone.
The manageress is far from apologetic and seems to think that that 3am is an acceptable time to go to bed.
Anybody considering this place should phone ahead and ask them about the noise, if you want tell them I told you to ;)

Now as we were paying for this ourselves, price was more of a factor here. And in fact, you couldn’t go far wrong with this place.
We paid £60 for a double room for Sat night and that included breakfast.
The location is great, slap bang in the middle of the merchant city. A whole bunch of gay clubs on the doorstep if that is your thing. We were going burlesque over at the Carling /​O2 Academy so they didn’t get a look in.
The room was clean, cute little bathroom, spacious enough, hairdryer and tea and coffee provided, showergel provided, iron cheerfully lent, breakfast ample and the man who did the night shift was the kindest friendliest cheeriest man you could hope to meet.
Russell points out that it’s not for the mature traveller. We got back there about 3:30am and it was still fairly noisy in the surrounding streets. I wouldn’t make this judgement based on age myself. But if you’re after a peaceful night with only the sound of a hooting owl for company, you would be disappointed. But then you maybe wouldn’t choose a city centre hotel for that anyway.
Great value, great location. I shall go back.