Scotland · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Paisley
Paisley is a city in Scotland, United Kingdom, home to about 77,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Paisley, with about 68 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Nearest airport
- GLA3 km · Glasgow Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Paisley
Paisley is a town in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Located north of the Gleniffer Braes and immediately west of Glasgow, it straddles the banks of the White Cart Water, a tributary of the River Clyde.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, weaving technology evolved from traditional human-powered looms to great machines in mills driven by waterwheels then later by steam. The parallel advance was in dyes, to make brightly-coloured threads to weave into patterns. Red dye was especially tricky to produce, so red clothing was a status symbol. Then along came the brilliant “Turkey Red”, which was “fast”, i.e. resistant to washing and sun-bleaching, though its extraction from rubia plant root was anything but fast.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Paisley
See
- Paisley Abbey
- Coats Paisley
- Sma' Shot Cottages
- Thread Mill Museum
- St Mirin's RC Cathedral
- Weaver's Cottage
Do
- Paisley Arts Centre
- Lagoon Leisure Centre
- St Mirren FC
- Glenifer Braes Country Park
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Paisley
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelodge Glasgow Airport hotel | 68 | 3.9/5 1,691 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Paisley
18 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Erskine House | 1845 | 9.1 km |
| Erskine Bridge Hotel | 1971 | 7.6 km |
| Ferry Inn, Clyde Street, Renfrew | 5.1 km | |
| Dumbarton, Glasgow Road, Dumbuck Hotel | 12.5 km | |
| The Bird In The Hand Hotel, Beith Road, Johnstone | 5.8 km | |
| 14, 16 Eglinton Street, Beith | 16.8 km | |
| 28 Cochrane Street, Kilbirnie | 19.4 km | |
| Ashtree House Hotel | 0.3 km | |
| Bowfield Hotel & Country Club | 10.4 km | |
| Eglinton Inn, Newton Street, Kilbirnie | 19.3 km | |
| Gleddoch House Hotel | 12.9 km | |
| Gryffe Inn, Main Street, Bridge Of Weir | 9.8 km | |
| Lynnhurst Hotel | 5.8 km | |
| Motel Air Glasgow Airport | 1.4 km | |
| Saracen's Head Hotel, 10-12 Eglinton Street, Beith | 16.8 km | |
| Scotia Airport Hotel | 0.7 km | |
| The Bull Inn, 7 New Street, Paisley | 0.2 km | |
| The Millwheel, Main Street, Bridge Of Weir | 9.8 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Paisley
Paisley has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 19 °C; October is the wettest, with about 166 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Paisley: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Glasgow Airport (GLA), about 3.0 km from the city centre in a straight line; Glasgow Prestwick Airport (PIK, 39 km) and Edinburgh Airport (EDI, 67 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Glasgow Airport (GLA) is only 1½ miles north of Paisley town centre. McGill's Bus 757 runs from the airport to Paisley Central Road and Gilmour Street every 30 min, taking 15 min by a zigzag route; you could almost walk it in that time by following Inchinnan Road straight along the White Cart riverbank. Glasgow has flights from many European and UK cities and the Hebrides. That's why faraway places like Tiree and Islay have Paisley postcodes: their mail flies out from here.
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GLA · Glasgow Airport
PIK · Glasgow Prestwick Airport
EDI · Edinburgh Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Paisley
Stay safe
Swerve clear of damnfool drunks late at night. They're blootered enough not only to pick fights with streetlamp pillars, but to mistake you for one.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Paisley
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
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of 1 place
Questions
Paisley: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Paisley?
By published guest score: Travelodge Glasgow Airport (3.9 / 5 · 1,691 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Paisley?
Paisley has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 19 °C; October is the wettest, with about 166 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Paisley?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Glasgow Airport (GLA), about 3.0 km from the city centre in a straight line; Glasgow Prestwick Airport (PIK, 39 km) and Edinburgh Airport (EDI, 67 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Paisley?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Paisley
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.