10 hotels in Edinburgh
The Witchery by the Castle
Edinburgh
All is fair in the candlelit rooms of James Thomson’s enthralling 16th- and 17th-century buildings overlooking the Royal Mile, with their hidden doors and dramatic nooks and crannies.
21212
Edinburgh
Take a Michelin-starred kitchen, throw in equally impressive bedrooms and a soupçon of laid-back glamour, and you have Paul Kitching and Katie O’Brien’s splendid restaurant-with-rooms.
94DR
Edinburgh
Paul Lightfoot and John MacEwan may profess to have high-octane enthusiasm for all things, but their Southside Victorian town house is nothing but relaxing.
The Rutland Hotel
Edinburgh
The former home of medical pioneer Sir Joseph Lister is anything but clinical today: the modern hotel occupying this 19th-century building, steps from the top of Princes Street, is awash in rich fabrics, bold patterns and ornate mirrors.
Brooks Hotel Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Within easy reach of the city’s sight-seeing trail, Andrew and Carla Brooks’s spruced-up 1840s West End hotel has an elegant, clubby feel.
The Bonham
Edinburgh
‘Conveniently sited in a quiet residential neighbourhood,’ the stylish Bonham Hotel puts you ‘in walking distance’ of Edinburgh’s top sights.
The Balmoral
Edinburgh
An Edinburgh landmark for over a century, this Victorian railway stopover is today a thoroughly 21st-century luxury hotel (Rocco Forte Hotels).
Tigerlily
Edinburgh
Southside Guest House
Edinburgh
The well-planted front courtyard marks out this friendly B&B, an easy walk, past the Meadows, to the university.
23 Mayfield
Edinburgh
A ‘short mile’ from the city centre, the rather unassuming exterior of Ross Birnie’s three-storey Victorian house belies its handsome interiors and contented atmosphere.
A city of romance, history, architecture and profoundly good taste, where speciality tea and coffee shops outnumber the chains and where inherently warm hospitality prevails. Here are 10 of the Good Hotel Guide’s favourite hotels in Edinburgh…