Rowena H.
Yelp
I like funk. Not the bad smells, but the music. In fact, I'm listening to funk right now, and it's funky. It makes you want to dance, it pumps you up, it makes you feel good. Citizen M is like funk. As I approached the hotel in my taxi I could tell this place was going to be my kind of stay. Although it's slightly odd that there is no check in desk as you enter, since the lobby is on the first floor, it's a striking building inside. Quirky sofas, grey and red colour scheme, mental lampshades, mini-elephant chairs. This stuff makes me happy.
Even though it's meant to be a self service hotel there was a lovely girl waiting to give a hand to anyone who wanted to check in. It was a simplistic and easy process and although I was a little disappointed that my room was small it was a pretty great room. I was being greedy; it was plenty space-full. The shower cubicle has a cloudburst shower head, which I love as it feels like a waterfall, and the bed is pretty gargantuan. Awesome heavy duvets and soft pillows combined with the block of mattress to make comfort-heaven. It's a shame I didn't get more sleep while I was here!
A small note to those who also, like me, didn't bother to use the welcome instructions. Don't try to work out the remote just before you go to bed. I managed to accidentally turn on some kind of rainbow laser show, when trying to turn off the television, and it took me a good twenty minutes to rectify. (Imagine drifting off to sleep and then a shocking pink beam begins to emanate from the shower cubicle at the touch of a button. Which then goes to red, blue, yellow, green, turquoise and so on, until you finally figure out how to switch it all off... )
The prices are all pretty stumped up, as you can expect, but a double croissant breakfast with orange and water bottles came in at around a fiver which isn't so bad. All the staff I encountered were awesome; the bar staff gave me a free beer when they realised they'd cleaned away a half full one that I was nursing, and were incredibly friendly to boot. Another boon is the free wifi, which is something you can't always count on in hotels, so that's pretty darn cool as well. Free movies, half of which are blockbusters, t'other half are naughty films. (Not something I was particularly pleased with, but what can you do?) Awesome sofa area, macs set up for those sans laptops, BBC news 24 playing out, great location close to the shops. All the right stuff.
Anyway, I'm going on and on. It was a great stay. Thanks Citizen M, I hope to be back! Thanks Glasgow, I think we'll be friends.