Royal Hotel

THE ROYAL HOTEL, George Square, Glasgow. Mrs. Cuthbert, Proprietress. Telephone No. 1441.

    The large and elegant structure forming the Royal Hotel at Glasgow constitutes one of the most conspicuous features of the celebrated George Square, which its presence has so long contributed to enhance and ornament. As one of the oldest of the series of select and essentially first-class hotels, of which it is the central figure, it has long preserved an exceptional popularity and interest for those desiring the various comforts and amenities which an old and established institution of the kind can be expected to afford ; and while the house bears a reputation of many years’ standing for its unobtrusiveness and excellent routine of management, its splendid situation has done much to recommend it to the patronage of a wide-spread and valuable clientele in all parts of the ed Kingdom.

    The hotel is close to the Queen Street Station, the terminus of the North British Railway and of all trains from the North, as well as of all trains from London by the East Coast route. It is within a few minutes walk of the other city stations, and the Broomielaw and landing stage from which the coast steamers depart. Tram-cars pass the door every few minutes for all parts of the city and suburbs, and from every point of view the Royal Hotel possesses sufficient claim to be regarded as occupying the finest and most central position in the city. The many attractions of the spacious Square are observable from the windows, and the external appearance of the house is of considerable attractiveness and architectural merit.

    From the handsome porch — (which, by reason of its ornamental character, emphasizes the approach to the interior) — throughout the entire suite of dining, drawing, reading, coffee, smoking, and billiard rooms everything is suggestive of refinement and good taste, and an aspect of cheerfulness and rich furnishing conveys many impressions of the forethought with which the best wishes of guests have been anticipated. Especially is this remarked in the suites of apartments intended for private occupation, and in the comfortable and well-ventilated bedrooms, each of which is a study in arrangement and appointment, while to the entire establishment there have been imparted those characteristics of home-like comfort which travellers and families from home are ever ready to appreciate. In this there is manifested the care and precision with which everything tending to preserve the time-honoured name and prestige of the house has been adopted and acted upon. All the latest improvements recognised in the leading metropolitan hotels are here embodied, and the entire fittings and sanitary and other accessories are upon a scale of much elaboration and magnificence.

    The tariff of the house bears most favourable comparison with that of any first-class hotel in the Metropolis or in Scotland, while the cuisine is perfect and the wines unexceptionable — the splendid cellars for which the Royal Hotel has been long famed forming an attraction in itself to those who can appreciate the many choice vintages and brands with which it is replete. Mrs. Cuthbert is to be congratulated on the thoroughly efficient and trustworthy staff engaged in the various departments. All matters are directed under her personal guidance, and her genial, obliging, and lady-like attentiveness to all guests is a marked feature of that otherwise sound management which has rendered the Royal Hotel a valuable and indispensable institution of modern and fashionable Glasgow. The telephone number is 1441.

    The North British Imperial Hotel, which is also in George Square, holding a commanding position in the centre of Glasgow, and supported by a large connection amongst the elite of Society, also owes its success to the careful and skilful management of Mrs Cuthbert, who is the proprietress.

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