Having to travel from time to time for work I recently found myself having to spend the best part of a week in Glasgow and in need of somewhere to lay my weary head at the end of the day and Marks hit the spot in terms of distance from the office and located right in the middle of the city centre with shops and bars a few minutes walk away.

Marks describes itself as a 'luxury 4 star hotel but is it really?

The reception was not what I was expecting at all, all very dark brown on the walls and floor with a couple of orange chairs around a small table and lots of champagne bottles placed in arrangements of different sizes. There where a couple of staff on duty and ready to greet you and book you in, we had one small issue here as we had booked via an internet site using one name for 2 rooms only to find that the information passed on was incorrect at some point and only 1 room had been reserved. This was quickly resolved as we had a copy of our booking confirmation with us clearly stating 2 rooms.

Arriving at our floors the first thing you will notice is the décor, the wallpaper is a grey/silver and burgundy leafy swirly pattern and is very in your face, not something I could live with at home for sure, with a more or less plain burgundy carpeting throughout. The décor looks fairly new as the carpet still had a spring in it under foot and as the 4th and the 7th floors where no different I am assuming that all floors match this theme.

For once no issue for me with the room key, normally I get the dodgy one where you have to wiggle a few times for the door to unlock and make that little green light appear, but not once did this happen. Entering the room, our rooms where standard rooms, you have a small hall with the bathroom door directly opposite you, turning into the room you have one single and one double bed and can confirm that all the standard rooms have the same layout.

The furniture was of a good solid quality and did not look worn and every piece matched which gave the room a nice feel, the décor was again plum / dark red carpets with all but one wall painted in white with the remainder having very bold wallpaper again which matched the bedding and the carpet.

Disappointingly there was no air conditioning in the rooms and you have to rely opening the window to cool the room.

The restaurant also doubles up as the breakfast room where you have a choice of continental (GBP 7.50) or full cooked breakfast also with many other hot items, all GBP 12.50, with the continental buffet laid out in the bar area but away from the windows. We settled for continental and had a good choice, various pastries, ham, cheese, cereal, fresh fruit, yoghurt and fruit juice.

Rooms where cleaned every day but noticed that there is no mention of 'green service where you can request for the towels or sheets not to be changed everyday. Hallways throughout appeared clean at all times during the day also and the carpet did look freshly hovered every night when we returned.