Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow Review (Formerly Jurys Inn Glasgow)

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Name update: Jurys Inn Glasgow is now Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow. Leonardo Hotels renamed its Jurys Inn hotels from 2022; the hotel and its address (80 Jamaica Street, Glasgow G1 4QG) are the same.

Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow, a four-star hotel, can be found on Jamaica Street, within about ten minutes’ walk of three stations: Glasgow Central, Argyle Street and Queen Street.

The Scottish Event Campus (SEC), with the SEC Centre, the SEC Armadillo and the OVO Hydro arena, is about three minutes by train from Glasgow Central Low Level to Exhibition Centre station (or roughly 2 km on foot along the river) from Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow, making it an ideal location for both business and pleasure travellers.

Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow is a few minutes’ walk from the shops, restaurants and bars around the St Enoch Centre and Argyle Street, and Glasgow Cathedral is about 1.5 km to the north-east.

Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow Amenities & Rooms

🛏️ 321 Rooms🏋 Fitness Gym
🅿️ Paid Parking🍽️ Restaurant
♿ Disabled Facilities🛎️ 24-hour Front Desk
🍸 Bar👪 Family Room
💼 Business Center🏢 Conference Facilities
🧳 Baggage Storage🚭 ​No smoking
🚕 Taxi Serviceᯤ Free WiFi
🫧 Laundry/Dry Cleaning ☕ Coffee Bar
Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow (formerly Jurys Inn Glasgow)

Hotel Rating★★★★☆
Languages SpokenEnglish
Spanish
Polish
Portuguese
Slovak
Hotel StyleFamily Oriented
Green Natural Look

Standard
Double Room
Standard Double Room with Sofa Bed
Beds
x1 Double
Beds
x1 Double
x1 Sofa
Sleeps
👤👤
Sleeps
👤👤
Room Size
21 m²
Room Size
28 m²
Free Toiletries
✅
Free Toiletries
✅
ᯤ Free WiFi
✅
ᯤ Free WiFi
✅
Bath/Shower
✅
Bath/Shower
✅
Towels
✅
Towels
✅
Hairdryer
✅
Hairdryer
✅
Toilet Paper
✅
Toilet Paper
✅
AC
✅
AC
✅
Heating
✅
Heating
✅
Iron
✅
Iron
✅
Toilet
✅
Toilet
✅
Carpeted
✅
Carpeted
✅
Electric Kettle
✅
Electric Kettle
✅
Desk
✅
Desk
✅
📞 Telephone
✅
📞 Telephone
✅
📺 TV
✅
📺 TV
✅
📡 Cable
✅
📡 Cable
✅
🔌 Sockets
✅
🔌 Sockets
✅
Wake-up Service
✅
Wake-up Service
✅
No smoking
✅
No smoking
✅
➕ Extras
–
➕ Extras
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Standard Twin RoomTriple Room
Beds
x1 XL Double
Beds
x1 Double
x1 Single
Sleeps
👤👤
Sleeps
👤👤👤
Room Size
21 m²
Room Size
21 m²
Free Toiletries
✅
Free Toiletries
✅
ᯤ Free WiFi
✅
ᯤ Free WiFi
✅
Bath/Shower
✅
Bath/Shower
✅
Towels
✅
Towels
✅
Hairdryer
✅
Hairdryer
✅
Toilet Paper
✅
Toilet Paper
✅
AC
✅
AC
✅
Heating
✅
Heating
✅
Iron
✅
Iron
✅
Toilet
✅
Toilet
✅
Carpeted
✅
Carpeted
✅
Electric Kettle
✅
Electric Kettle
✅
Desk
✅
Desk
✅
📞 Telephone
✅
📞 Telephone
✅
📺 TV
✅
📺 TV
✅
📡 Cable
✅
📡 Cable
✅
🔌 Sockets
✅
🔌 Sockets
✅
Wake-up Service
✅
Wake-up Service
✅
No smoking
✅
No smoking
✅
➕ Extras
–
➕ Extras
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Superior Double Room + Sofa BedSuperior Twin Room
Beds
x1 Double
x1 Sofa
Beds
x1 XL Double
Sleeps
👤👤
Sleeps
👤👤
Room Size
28 m²
Room Size
21 m²
Free Toiletries
✅
Free Toiletries
✅
ᯤ Free WiFi
✅
ᯤ Free WiFi
✅
Bath/Shower
✅
Bath/Shower
✅
Towels
✅
Towels
✅
Hairdryer
✅
Hairdryer
✅
Toilet Paper
✅
Toilet Paper
✅
AC
✅
AC
✅
Heating
✅
Heating
✅
Iron
✅
Iron
✅
Toilet
✅
Toilet
✅
Carpeted
✅
Carpeted
✅
Electric Kettle
✅
Electric Kettle
✅
Desk
✅
Desk
✅
📞 Telephone
✅
📞 Telephone
✅
📺 TV
✅
📺 TV
✅
📡 Cable
✅
📡 Cable
✅
🔌 Sockets
✅
🔌 Sockets
✅
Wake-up Service
✅
Wake-up Service
✅
No smoking
✅
No smoking
✅
➕ Extras
–
➕ Extras
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Rooms Suitable for People Using Wheelchairs

Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow has wheelchair-accessible rooms. These include:

  • The height of the bed is reduced to accommodate wheelchair access.
  • Wide Hallways
  • Possibility of free and easy movement
  • All handicapped-accessible loos are equipped with roll-in showers or bathtubs, supplementary handrails, a lower sink, grab bars, and emergency pull cords.

In addition, the hotel offers the following supplementary services for clients with unique requirements:

  • Easily accessible public restrooms
  • The building is equipped with lifts that can transport you to any floor.
hotel disabled wheelchair

Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow Location

80 Jamaica St, Glasgow G1 4QG, United Kingdom

LocationDistance
George Square650 m
Hutchesons’ Hall700 m
Glasgow Green1,000 m
Barrowland Park1 km
Rottenrow Gardens1 km
Gorbals New Park1.2 km
Garnethill Park1.2 km
Scotland Street School Museum1.3 km
People’s Palace and Winter Gardens1.4 km
Provand’s Lordship1.4 km

LocationDistance
Mint & Lime Bar20 m
The Imperial50 m
Macsorley’s50 m
Kenz100 m
Pizza Hut150 m
McDonald’s150 m

LocationDistance
Newmilns Dry Ski Slope28 km
Polmonthill Ski Centre39 km
Firpark Ski Centre Ski Lift46 km

Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow Transport & Airports

LocationDistance
🚂 Subway St Enoch200 m
🚂 Train Glasgow Central Low Level250 m
🚂 Train Glasgow Central Station300 m
🚂 Subway Bridge Street500 m
✈️ Glasgow Airport11 km
✈️ Glasgow Prestwick Airport44 km
✈️ Edinburgh Airport57 km

Top 10 Locations To Visit In Glasgow

When visiting Glasgow, there are a number of attractions and activities that you can enjoy. Here are some of the top 10 locations to visit while in the city:

LocationDistance
1. St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art1.5 km
2. Glasgow Science Centre2.3 km
3. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum2.5 km
4. Riverside Museum of Transport and Technology3.2 km
5. Glasgow Botanic Gardens3.3 km
6. House for an Art Lover3.7 km
7. The Burrell Collection4.3 km
8. Pollok House5 km
9. Fossil Grove6 km
10. Mugdock Country Park13 km

1. St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art

The museum is named after St Mungo, Glasgow’s sixth-century patron saint, and stands beside Glasgow Cathedral. Entry is free.

The museum is an oasis of calm in the midst of a bustling metropolis, and its halls are stocked with artworks and artefacts that shed light on the universal and timeless significance of religion in people’s lives.

The museum itself is situated in a structure that was created in the Scottish baronial style so as to mimic the look of the nearby Bishops’ Castle.

Glasgow St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art

2. Glasgow Science Centre

The Glasgow Science Centre is a fantastic place to take the kids because it shows them how fascinating science and technology can be.

A trip to the Glasgow Science Centre is a must if you’re in Scotland. The park’s wide variety of attractions ensures that guests of all ages will have a good time there. Alongside the exhibition floors, the centre has a planetarium and an IMAX cinema.

Live scientific shows with plenty of whizzes, bangs, pops, and flashes may be seen at the Science Show Theatre.

Learn to navigate the bubble wall and put on a puppet performance at the Waterways exhibit.

Glasgow Science Centre

Enjoy some down time while learning about the wonders of the night sky at the planetarium’s astronomical treasure trove. The Ames Room and the Wacky Salon in the centre’s “A Question of Perception” area will fool your mind with the physics underlying illusions. See a film in IMAX 3D and be blown away by the experience. Find out what goes on behind the scenes of your electricity at Powering the Future, an interactive exhibit designed for the whole family.

Learn how to use your thoughts to move items around, construct a roller coaster, and see into the future. These are just a few examples of the fun that can be had with the Science Mall’s hands-on displays.

The wonderful café offers a selection of hot and cold Scottish products to keep you going throughout the day.

3. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, about 2.5 km from the hotel, is one of the Glasgow museums run by Glasgow Life, alongside the Riverside Museum, the Gallery of Modern Art and the People’s Palace. Check its website for current exhibitions and opening times.

4. Riverside Museum of Transport and Technology

The Riverside Museum is Glasgow Life’s first 21st-century museum with a specific mission. Located at the confluence of the Kelvin and Clyde rivers, it is home to Glasgow’s world-renowned transport and technology collections, which have been amassed over the course of centuries and highlight the city’s global leadership in industries such as shipbuilding, train manufacturing, and engineering.

Dame Zaha Hadid, a famous architect, was responsible for the museum’s design. Over 3,000 items from the city’s renowned collections have been on show there since it opened in 2011.

Excellent work has been done on the Riverside Museum, which is housed in a beautiful structure at a prominent and historic spot on the Clyde riverfront. Glasgow has a long history of technical inventiveness, and the extruded design’s intricate geometry carries on that legacy.

5. Glasgow Botanic Gardens

In no way should you miss out on visiting the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. The area is rich in history and culture, and it also has many interesting and useful resources. With a plethora of plants, and investigation into their intriguing development and effects on Earth.

Botanic gardens play a key role in raising awareness about the need to protect the planet by preserving and appreciating plant life and the environments in which they thrive. As a result of widespread deforestation, the planet’s climate was shifting. The gardens can only offer a glimpse of the great variety of life on Earth, but by investigating the plants flourishing here you can begin to appreciate the tremendous variety of plant life.

Much of the plant collection is housed in the temperate and tropical glasshouses, including the Kibble Palace.
They offer a nice selection of resilient trees in the outside area, and you should check them out. Located beside the scenic River Kelvin, the spectacular Victorian glasshouses are only one of the many attractions.

6. House for an Art Lover

House for an Art Lover has a rich history that exemplifies the innovative imagination of its architect and the drive and brilliance of the team of artists and engineers who laboured to realise his vision in the 1990s, almost nine decades later.

Located in Bellahouston Park, House for an Art Lover is a creation of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a world-famous architect.

Materials and skill were used to realise the outside of the House for an Art Lover as faithfully as possible to Mackintosh’s 1901 plans.

The interior was created by Mackintosh as a whole, with his wife providing the interior design details for the double-height Entrance Hall, Dining Room, Oval Room, and Music Room. Together with the Main Staircase and Gallery, these spaces comprise “The Mackintosh Suite,” which may be explored by guests.

The Art Lovers Cafe, Gallery, and Shop may also be found in this residence.

7. The Burrell Collection

More than 9,000 pieces spanning 6,000 years of history make up the Burrell Collection, one of the finest art collections ever assembled by a single individual. On March 29, 2022, after a lengthy restoration and redecoration, the Burrell Collection reopened to the public.

In the city of Glasgow, Scotland, the municipal government entrusts the management of a number of museums, including the Burrell Collection, to the nonprofit organisation Glasgow Life. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Riverside Museum, Gallery of Modern Art, and People’s Palace are the other museums in Glasgow.

In the middle of Pollok Country Park, Glasgow’s greatest green area, is where you’ll find the award-winning structure that houses the Burrell Collection. Sir William Burrell, a shipping entrepreneur, was honoured for his donation with the naming of the Collection.

Glasgow The Burrell Collection

Works by such luminaries as Rodin, Degas, and Cézanne, as well as masterpieces from the late mediaeval period, China, Islam, and other ancient cultures, are on show. The Burrell hosts a wide variety of events and activities for kids, in addition to regularly hosting temporary exhibits.

After extensive renovations and new displays, the Burrell Collection reopened to the public on March 29, 2022.

8. Pollok House

The Spanish art collection in this stately mansion in the centre of Glasgow includes:

  • Check out Pollok Country Park and one of the Trust’s other magnificent assets.
  • Check out the enormous living quarters for the staff.
  • Explore the gallery’s extensive Spanish art collection, which also includes pieces by Raeburn and Guthrie.
  • Indulge in some delectable baked goods and other delicacies from the heart at the Edwardian Kitchen café.

It all started in 1931 at Pollok House. Pollok’s cedar-paneled smoking room was the location of the first planning meetings for what would become the National Trust for Scotland. Set in the beautiful Pollok Country Park on the outskirts of Glasgow, this magnificent estate is a perfect illustration of Georgian grandeur, worthy of its place in a Jane Austen book.

Explore the top floors of Pollok House for an intriguing look into the lives of Edwardian aristocracy. The lavish family rooms are crammed with antiques and artefacts, and the library was built to house seven thousand volumes.

Sir William Stirling Maxwell developed an extensive art collection, which included several paintings on Spanish subjects and portraits of Habsburg monarchs. Another incomplete work by Raeburn that you may see is his portrait of Sir John Maxwell, which he began in 1822 and is widely considered to be his final painting.

9. Fossil Grove

The Glasgow Fossil Grove is one of the earliest examples of geological conservation in the world, with the fossil stumps kept where they were found. In 1889, two years after the stumps and top roots of eleven fossil trees were unearthed in a quarry during road and landscaping development for the new Victoria park, it was created.

Sedimentary rocks from the Carboniferous Period, 325 Ma, include the unique tree fossils in which they grew. Lepidodendrons are an archaic vascular plant species. As a result of the trees’ remarkable preservation, scientists have determined the composition of the soil in which they grew, as well as the features of the Carboniferous forest habitat and the mechanisms responsible for their burial and preservation. This stratum of rock contains fossilised plant debris that was formerly part of the silt and mud soil. Approximately 4500 trees per square kilometre, the gap between them indicates that the forest was far less thick than contemporary coniferous forests.

10. Mugdock Country Park

Mugdock Country Park is an interesting day trip into the countryside, yet it’s just ten miles from the heart of Glasgow.

Mugdock Country Park is a wonderful destination to visit, with a wide variety of activities and attractions to choose from.

Trek out to Mugdock Castle, perched high above Mugdock Loch, and check out nearby Craigend Castle while you’re at it. You may also reach the Toadstool Trail by crossing Pietches Moor and strolling through Pheasants Wood. The WWII Gunsites may be seen from above Khyber Field.

When you’re done exploring, head to the Courtyard, where the park’s Visitor Centre and Gift Shop are. Relax at a café, browse the gallery or potter about in the garden centre.

The stunning landscapes of Scotland have played host to many historical milestones. Visit Mugdock today to take part in activities that span more than five thousand years and to learn about and enjoy a piece of Scotland’s rich heritage.

Booking Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow

Facilities, parking charges, breakfast times and room types change, so check the latest details on the hotel’s own page at Leonardo Hotels or on its Booking.com listing before you book.

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Conclusion

Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow is a four-star hotel on Jamaica Street, about ten minutes’ walk from Glasgow Central and Queen Street stations, with a restaurant, bar and fitness room. It suits city breaks as well as trips to events at the SEC and the Hydro.

FAQs

What’s popular near Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow?

St Andrew’s Cathedral on Clyde Street (about 0.3 miles away) and the St Enoch Centre are both a short walk from the hotel.

What facilities and services does Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow provide?

Free Wi-Fi, an on-site restaurant, and a bar/lounge are among the most sought-after perks.

What meals & drinks are at Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow?

During their stay, visitors may take use of the hotel’s restaurant, bar, and breakfast.

Does Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow have parking? 

There is no on-site car park; the nearby Q-Park Jamaica Street is paid, and the hotel’s page lists a pre-booking discount.

What Restaurants are near Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow?

There are plenty of restaurants, cafes and bars within a few minutes’ walk, around Argyle Street, the St Enoch Centre and the Merchant City.

Is Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow close to the city centre?

Yes, it’s 0.3 kilometres (0.2 miles) from Glasgow city centre.

Does Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow offer cleaning services?

Yes,  guests have access to the on-site dry cleaning and laundry facilities.

Are there business amenities at Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow?

Yes, there are ten meeting rooms for up to 110 guests and a business lounge.

What languages do Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow staff speak?

The employees are fluent in many languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Slovak.

What historic places are near Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow?

Nearby historic places include the Tenement House (about 0.7 miles), the Mackintosh House at the Hunterian (about 1.6 miles) and the House for an Art Lover (about 2.3 miles), all straight-line distances.

What are Leonardo Royal Hotel Glasgow’s views like?

Yes, there is a river view accessible to visitors.