Though it is an arena for indoor activities, the XScape very well serves the purpose of an outdoor entertainment centre. This immensely large indoor complex acts as a perfect base for you to indulge in adventure and entertaining activities of the rock climbing and the sky ride genre. P.S. The complex boasts of the longest indoor real snow ski slope in the entire United Kingdom.
Tel No:: 0871 200 3222 (or 0871 222 5672 for the snow slope)
You don't have to push through crowds at the Cineworld multiplex to enjoy a good movie on a Glasgow city break. The Glasgow film theatre is a much preferred alternative screening diverse mainstream and arthouse films. Recline on your seats and have a relaxing drink while you enjoy a movie at this independent cinema!
Address: 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB (just off Sauchiehall Street)
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Entertainment and informative arena especially for kids!
The Glasgow Science Centre is an entertaining as well as an informative centre for kids, even middle-aged kids. If your kids have a sort of scientific inquisitiveness on the top of their minds, they will remain entertained for hours together in the IMAX theatre and the Science Mall here. You can also pop your heads into the observation tower and the planetarium where you can alight on a 3-D molecular journey. The millennium project is a place with numerous exhibits related to science and technology.
Address: Take bus from Renfield St or the Union St.
Close to the National Stadium at Hampden, on the City's South side, this centre is a joint-use building, shared with Holyrood Secondary School.Holyrood offers top class facilities including an open plan fitness suite, extensive fitness class timetable, an Activ8 gym and sports facilities perfect for badminton, hockey, football and much more.If you are a sports enthusiast sure, you will find Holyrood Sports Centre as an interesting place.
Shared with John Paul Academy, Glasgow Club Johm Paul boasts excellent facilities, open to the public in the evening and at weekends. The football facilities offered at the centre include:
1) 4 full size grass pitches 2) full size floodlit synthetic pitch
Greenfield Football Centre was opened in 2008 and has state-of-the-art facilities that includes:
1) 6 full size grass pitches 2) full size floodlit 3rd generation FIFA approved synthetic pitch 3) 3 seven a side pitches 4) 14 state of the art changing rooms 5) referee changing area 6) first aid room
This modern centre in Glasgow's West End features a great dance studio and split-level fitness suite with the latest gym equipment. Fitness class programmes are offered with great selection of popular classes, including the world-renowned Les Mills range (eg. Body Attack, Body Step & Body Pump). The sports hall at the centre is perfect for activities like badminton, volleyball and 5-a-side football to name just a few. There is a range of pitches available too and football coaching is available for most age groups.
King Tut's Wah Wah Hut is one of Glasgow's leading concert venues, renowned in Scotland as an exciting showcase for new and emerging bands and as the venue that supported some of the UK music industry's biggest names at the start of their careers.It is owned and managed by Scotland's foremost music promoters DF Concerts. King Tut's Wah Wah Hut borrowed its name from a venue in New York and opened it in basement premises in Glasgow's St Vincent Street, aiming from the outset to offer Scotland's best line up of new and established bands, as well as being a relaxing place to enjoy good food and drink.
This finest jukebox in Glasgow should be enough to tempt you through Sleazy's door. If not, you may be enticed by the cheap food and some stellar live music. Sleazy has gone from strength to strength and plays host to a smorgasbord of musical styles on an almost nightly basis. Expect the clientele here to be painfully well dressed, beautiful and knowledgeable about rare Smith's b-sides - none of those are bad things,by the way.
Situated in a former stable and coach house in Glasgow's West End, Brel bar/restaurant aims to provide quality Belgian food and drink reflecting the best of what's available on the Continent. Brel was voted Glasgows 3rd best live music venue this year by Guardian Travel. Brel conducts free Live Jazz on Saturday afternoons, campfire on thursadays and DJs at weekends too.
Brel has loads of beers - especially Belgian ones. Draught and bottles (big bottles or normal ones), lots of lagers and dark beers too, as well as various fruit beers from blackcurrant to banana.Brel also offers a compact yet eclectic quaffable selection of wines in affordable prices.
No musical tour of Glasgow would be complete without a trip to the incomparable Barras.The Barrowland Ballroom is a major dance hall and concert venue in Glasgow. You can always expect a pack of crowds during all nighrs being entranced by perfect acoustics and the best live music on offer. Homegrown talents like Primal Scream and Teenage Fanclub have all delighted home crowds at the Barras in the past. Bands seem to adore the place and mega-dome performers regularly take a sizable pay-cut for the chance to play here. In a fit of ecstasy after a gig there in 1996, Metallica labelled it the best performance of their career.
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Sited in the Glasgow city centre, the Arches is probably one among the city's prominent art venues. The cavernous venue is a hub of emerging talents and creative minds. If you are looking for anything of the theatre, vibrant city clubs, visual arts or corporate events genre on your city break, you can pop your head into the Arches. You can also take a look at art exhibitions and contemporary theatre programs in this fabled venue. The Arches can be labelled a “creative haven”.
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Primarily a gay club, the venue is sited over two levels. The Bennett's has been standing in Glasgow for quite some time now. It is also said to be the biggest dance club, for gays in the Glasgow city-centre, with large dance floors and an excellent sound and light system. Bennett's along with Revolver and the Polo lounge forms a part of the city's area known as “Pink Triangle”. The “Pink Triangle” plays a major role in contributing to the liveliness of the Glasgow city centre.