Kid-friendly places in Glasgow

Vietnamese street food under hanging bicycles and lanterns, with build-your-own pho and a little balcony for eating outside.

Big central hotel with a 15-metre indoor pool, sauna and steam room in its health club, and a children's menu at breakfast.

Family-run since 1979, cooking Scottish standards like Cullen skink, black pudding with Scotch pancakes, and haggis with tatties and neeps.

Free gardens around the Kibble Palace, a huge Victorian glasshouse of tree ferns and palms, with more tropical glasshouses and a riverside walk.

Three floors of hands-on exhibits, a planetarium and an IMAX, plus Big Explorer, a giant boat of water wheels and cranes for kids 7 and under.

Free museum where a Spitfire hangs over Sir Roger the elephant, with a Mini Museum for under-fives and free organ recitals.

Free transport museum with walk-in old streets, trams and steam trains to climb aboard, and a tall ship moored outside.

A restored 1896 sailing ship moored beside the Riverside Museum, with a soft play for under-fives down in the cargo hold.

Boutique hotel in a terrace of Victorian townhouses near the Botanic Gardens, with cots and babysitting on request.

Big riverside hotel looking over the Clyde, with family rooms that sleep two adults and two kids under 12.

Glass-fronted hotel right beside Central Station, a short walk from the river and the shops.