Bank of Scotland

This is indeed a handy, decent sized bank situated in a residential area in the South Side of Glasgow. It’s big, comfortable and has the bog standard — but relatively nice — traditional Bank of Scotland décor in it; including grey speckled carpets and the like.
The staff are pleasant enough and certainly seem to know their products well. This is especially clear in their questioning sales pitch for:
1) Car insurance.
2) Home insurance.
3) Building insurance.
4) Mobile phone insurance.
5) Platinum and/​or Gold current accounts.
I’ve found the best way to avoid getting tangled into long and drawn out conversations relating to the above it to make it abundantly and quickly evident that:
1) You don’t have a car.
2) You’ve just renewed your home insurance.
3) You have to take your building insurance out through your factors.
4) You have a cheap mobile phone because you forever lose/​break it.
5) You have very limited funds coming into your account regularly.
Problem solved.

This branch of Bank of Scotland is really handy for me indeed, I don’t really venture in a lot but when I do the staff have always been very helpful. To be honest the only time I head to the bank is if the card machine has swallowed my card, which seems to happen to me a lot more than your average person. It’s so annoying! The only downside is the fact that they try to sell you everything from credit cards to holiday insurance that you just don’t want or need. They’re pretty persistent though but not as bad as some other branches.
It’s a reasonable size and as well as general bank related queries there is a section for business banking too. This bank also hosts a card machine outside which is very handy and it doesn’t charge you for transactions.