Peter Taylor, doyen of Scotland's hotel trade, has "no regrets at all" about devoting the past six years to what must at one point have felt like a mad gamble.

As the economy tottered in 2008, was Glasgow really ready for the marble floors, killer crystal chandelier and £1500-a-night suites of its first-ever five-star hotel, in a stunning recreation of the halcyon years of the former Royal Scottish Auto Club in Blythswood Square?

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