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 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.

Ideal for city walkers on a budget, this affordable hotel, with its bright, pared-down style, makes a cheerful base for exploring the surrounding landmarks.

Late Georgian elegance meets 21st-century boutique chic in the Maclean family’s recently extended hotel overlooking Fettes College and the Edinburgh Academicals rugby ground.

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.

‘Conveniently sited in a quiet residential neighbourhood,’ the stylish Bonham Hotel puts you ‘in walking distance’ of Edinburgh’s top sights.

An Edinburgh landmark for over a century, this Victorian railway stopover is today a thoroughly 21st-century luxury hotel (Rocco Forte Hotels).

The well-planted front courtyard marks out this friendly B&B, an easy walk, past the Meadows, to the university.

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.

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.

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.