Interesting news · Monday 27 July

A 30-bedroom hotel has opened above Glasgow Central Station

Glasgow · from theaddresswren.com

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The Address Wren opened last week on the top floor of Caledonian Chambers at 87 Union Street, directly above Glasgow Central Station. Thirty bedrooms, all on one level. It is run by The Address Collective, a family-owned Irish hotel group.

This is the group's second Glasgow hotel and its seventh overall, following The Address Glasgow, which opened in 2023. Rooms sit high enough to look out over tenement rooftops rather than into the street, which is more or less the point of taking the penthouse floor of a railway building.

Director Cathal McGettigan says the interiors were designed around the hotel's namesake, the wren, and the bird's habit of nesting safely above the city. For anyone catching an early train, the concourse is a lift ride away.

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