Glasgow SYHA

Glasgow


Perched on a hill overlooking Kelvingrove Park in a charming townhouse, this place is one of Scotland's best official hostels. Dorms are mostly four to six beds with padlocked lockers, and all have their own en suite. The common rooms are spacious, plush and good for lounging about in. There's no curfew, it has a good kitchen, and meals are available.

The prices listed reflect weekend maximums and are usually cheaper. Nonmembers pay £3 extra, but it's cheap to join. There's a good self-catering two-bedroom apartment that sleeps six and will appeal to families.


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Nearby Glasgow attractions

1. Kelvingrove Park

0.16 MILES

On both banks of the meandering River Kelvin, a tributary of the Clyde, this West End park is popular with dog walkers, foot commuters and canoodling…

2. University of Glasgow

0.32 MILES

Though founded in 1451, the city's first university has only been located here in the West End since the 1870s. Its imposing sandstone neo-Gothic main…

3. Hunterian Museum

0.32 MILES

Housed in the glorious sandstone university building, which is in itself reason enough to pay a visit, this quirky museum contains the collection of…

4. Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum

0.36 MILES

A magnificent sandstone building, this grand Victorian cathedral of culture is a fascinating and unusual museum, with a bewildering variety of exhibits…

5. Mackintosh House

0.4 MILES

Attached to the Hunterian Art Gallery, this is a reconstruction of the first home that Charles Rennie Mackintosh bought with his wife, noted designer…

6. Hunterian Art Gallery

0.41 MILES

Across the road from the Hunterian Museum, and part of the same bequest, this art gallery incorporates Mackintosh House as well as a good selection of…

7. Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum

0.46 MILES

Charts the history of the Royal Highland Fusiliers, as well as previous regiments, from 1678 to the present. The walls are dripping with exhibits,…

8. Kelvin Hall

0.47 MILES

Opened in the 1920s as an exhibition centre, this enormous sandstone palace, renovated and reopened in 2016, is a mixed leisure-and-arts space. In…