A new hotel is about to open in Glasgow with the promise of a luxury double room with a super-sized bed for less than £50 a night.

In a major coup for Scotland, the citizenM hotel chain is to open first in Glasgow ahead of planned openings in London, New York, Paris and Milan.

The firm’s Dutch bosses have spent £100 million on the new hotel, built next to the Theatre Royal on the site of the old STV studios at the corner of Hope Street and Renfrew Street.

All 198 bedrooms – each featuring soundproof floor-to-ceiling giant windows – were built off site at a factory in Holland before being shipped to Glasgow and slipped into the building’s superstructure.

And it’s like no other hotel in the city. There is no reception desk but electronic touch pads offering self-service check-in and check-out.

Bookings have to made online while credit and debit cards are the only way to pay bills. Phone bookings and cash payments are banned.

And there are no single rooms to be had. All rooms are doubles and offer what the Dutch owners describe as “affordable luxury” for the world’s “mobile citizens”.

Each room is fitted with a flat screen LCD television, a power rain shower, full length mirror and a global plug system. Guests also get a revolutionary Moodpad, which controls the room temperature, television, window blinds, alarm clock and even the colour of the room lighting.

The chain, which opened its first hotel at Amsterdam Airport in 2008, was recently voted the most stylish in Europe.

A spokesman for the hotel, which will open on Sunday August 15, said: “citizenM redefines both the budget and the luxury hotel standard. Guests are treated to affordable, cutting-edge hotel rooms at the height of functional design, created by an award-winning design agency.”

He added: “There are no marble fountains or concierge desks in the citizenM Glasgow lobby. Instead you’ll see stylishly designed spaces which come in the form of contemporary living rooms, furnished with the latest collection of iconic Vitra and Eames furniture.”

The Dutch owners of the chain now plan to extend the citizenM concept by open up to 20 hotels across Europe in the next five years .