Luxury Travel Advisor - October 2008 - (Page 9)

CLYDE AUDITORIUM (left) hosts concerts and public events. HOTEL DU VIN’s Catena Zapata room (above) focuses on rich coloring. in a building, which previously housed the Royal Scottish Automobile Club. Even Glaswegian royalty, such as actor and comedian Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid from the Harry Potter movie franchise) are championing the new developments, attending glittering fundraisers and groundbreakings and letting the world know that Glasgow is very much back on the atlas of desired destinations. Luxury travel advisors already know that, in Glasgow, these star-studded evenings (and indeed anything that has to do with celebrities or royalty) tend to take place at the venerable five-star hotel, One Devonshire Place, which has now rebranded as the Hotel du Vin Glasgow (www.hotelduvin.com). The best hotel in town has lost none of its distinctiveness in the name-change process. In fact, as the Hotel du Vin Glasgow, it has grown, adding a new townhouse to the row (now visitors don’t have to duck outside and walk past the middle house to get from the lobby to their rooms), while also acquiring a stunning new elegance. It’s a little bit like that scene in Funny Face, where Audrey Hepburn appears on the top of a staircase at the Louvre to be photographed by Fred Astaire for her first job as a model. He’s only seen her as a lovely ingénue, but all of a sudden she’s flying down the staircase with all the elegance that Givenchy can muster. The newly branded Hotel du Vin Glasgow now has the elegance of a Givenchy evening gown, but amazingly it’s not lost any of its quirky Scottish warmth. Yes, your guests still get brandy in front of a real open fireplace, but there’s a new elegant hush about the drawing room and an attention to detail in design and service that is the mark of a world-class hotel, not just a great one. Take pop star Kylie Minogue’s favorite suite, the Château de la Roulerie. The room (like the hotel’s other 49 rooms, including five suites, all bookable on the GDS) has been refurbished with a sleek elegantyet-simple design scheme. Whatnots and bibelots are eschewed for clean lines and a focus on fine fabrics and deep, rich color schemes. Jo Malone amenities are abundant and the Grand Duplex Suite’s arrangement of the roll-top Victorian-style bath in the upstairs bedroom and the power showers below is an elegant solution to the business versus pleasure concept. The bed—a huge sleigh piled high with imported designer pillows—is positioned in the center of the room as the showstopper. LCD TV, high-speed Internet access and other nods to the www.luxuryta.com October 2008 | LUXURY TRAVEL ADVISOR 9 http://www.hotelduvin.com http://www.luxuryta.com

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