Christmas market in one of UK's biggest cities blasted for taking a minute to walk round

Glasgow's Winterfest astatine St Enoch's Square takes a infinitesimal to locomotion circular (Image: Douglas Dickie)

A Christmas marketplace successful 1 of Britain's largest cities has been criticised for taking lone 1 infinitesimal to locomotion through.

Winterfest successful St Enoch's Square, Glasgow, has been described arsenic a "modest offer" compared to Edinburgh's, which has been hailed arsenic 1 of the astir fashionable of its benignant successful Europe.

Scottish Daily Express contented editor, Douglas Dickie, visited Glasgow's Christmas marketplace and said afterwards that if you are looking for a magical acquisition "you champion spell elsewhere".

Mr Dickie, penning successful the aforesaid publication, said of his experience: "It was lone ever meant to beryllium a flying visit. And that was conscionable arsenic good due to the fact that you tin locomotion done the full marketplace successful nether a minute."

He added determination are a fistful of stalls, a fewer fairground rides and a tiny barroom area, but that is it. Mr Dickie continued: "There's thing truly 'wrong' with it and you tin portion distant 20 minutes there. But [it] conscionable seemed a small insipid."

Winterfest astatine St Enoch's Square is simply a 'modest offer', Douglas Dickie says (Image: Douglas Dickie)

The sights and sounds of Christmas are each apparent, according to Mr Dickie, with sweets, gifts and nutrient connected sale, but the "experience is astir implicit earlier it starts".

He added: "None of this is simply a disapproval of the stalls oregon what's [on] connection - adjacent if it is, similar each Christmas markets, hopelessly overpriced.

"But it seems the St Enoch Winterfest is small much than paying articulator work to festive seasons past. It's conscionable not what it utilized to be."

The contented with Glasgow's Christmas marketplace is that it is dispersed betwixt George Square and St Enoch's Square, according to Mr Dickie.

George Square's Christmas marketplace includes an crystal rink, Big Wheel and 80 metre Drop Tower. It is owed to unfastened connected Saturday (November 23) and runs until January 5.

The Christmas marketplace includes sweet, nutrient and acquisition stalls (Image: Getty)

A spokesperson for Glasgow City Council said: "Glasgow’s hugely fashionable Christmas Lights switch-on lawsuit successful George Square ever signals the commencement of the city’s yearly Christmas celebrations.

"George Square is the absorption of our Christmas offering and the Christmas marketplace ever draws successful visitors from each implicit the Glasgow portion and beyond.

"The quadrate continues to big accepted events specified arsenic the Blessing of the Crib, but this twelvemonth besides sees an enhanced scope of attractions that includes breathtaking caller fairground rides, a covered crystal rink, a full-sized barroom arsenic good arsenic stalls for food, drinks and Christmas gifts."

They added that the St Enoch Square marketplace is an important portion of the city's Christmas Festival and it is tailored to acceptable a much compact abstraction than George Square.