Mary Johnston is ready for reviews (Picture: TripAdvisor)

If you’re stuck for things to see and do in Glasgow this weekend, this woman might have the answer.

Mary Johnston has inexplicably become the 87th best tourist attraction in the city on TripAdvisor after somehow signing herself up as a destination for visitors rather than a user on the site.

It’s not certain how this happened, however, as TripAdvisor individually screens new attractions when they are submitted.

It’s starting to make sense now (Picture: TripAdvisor)

‘Mary Johnston is ready for reviews,’ a message on her page reads. ‘Have you been to Mary Johnston? Share your experience.’


Among the sights in Glasgow that Mary is ranked above are the 12,000-capacity arena the Hydro and, um, Templeton’s Carpet Factory.



It appears that the reviews that catapulted Ms Johnston to a small manner of internet fame have been deleted, but some exist for posterity on Twitter.

Ms Johnston told the Scotsman she had asked TripAdvisor to rectify the apparent glitch.

‘I didn’t set it up. It must be a bug in the system or it is malicious,’ she said.

‘I’m already a user and I went on recently to review somewhere in Amsterdam so it may have happened then.

‘I have been reading forums and apparently you have to bend over backwards to set up an account as an attraction.’

She added: ‘At least it is a good picture of me.’