Scottish Hotel Buildings : Reservations, Websites, Images, Addresses
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The Edinburgh Hotels guide lists architect-designed hotels. The Hotels are mostly contemporary.
The key classics, such as The Balmoral Hotel & The Caledonian Hotel, are inserted to give depth. Unlike other Edinburgh hotel guides, this one is focused on the architecture/interiors with contact details direct to the Hotels' own websites.
Websites, Contact Info, Addresses and brief descriptions
Edinburgh Hotel Developments - News:
1 - 3 Lauriston Park, Edinburgh
SMC Jenkins + Marr
For Lauriston Hotel Ltd
Change of use from nursery to hotel
Application received: 11/04/07
Full Planning Application Minded to Grant 22/06/07
Palmerston Place hotel, Edinburgh
Full Planning Application: Granted Jul 2007
Change of use from 90 person hostel and offices to 35-bed town house hotel with public bar, restaurant
Location: 27 & 29 Palmerston Place
Planning + Building Design Ltd 0131 662 8430
For Whitechester Ltd
Application received: 05/03/07
Full Planning Application Minded to Grant 21/06/07
Old Town Hotels
The Witchery by the Castle
352 Castlehill, Edinburgh +44 (0)131 225 5613
Apex Hotel, 31-35 Grassmarket
0131 300 3456
This hotel provides reasonable accommodation right in the centre and at low prices; views from 5th floor restaurant across to Edinburgh Castle.
Modern Metro restaurant and mezzanine cocktail bar below. The restaurant is set in a triple-height white-walled and timber-floored basement with street-level bar,all by Ian Springford Architects: opened 2000. The sense of space, great views and sensitive use of materials is impressive.
Metro Restaurant - for opening times call 0131 474 3466
For restaurant & bar information see: Edinburgh Restaurants
Or try Apex's new Edinburgh hotel:
City Apex Hotel, Grassmarket with agua restaurant
all by the same architect as the Apex Hotel and Metro
Macdonald Hotel, Holyrood
Hendry & Legge Architects
The Holyrood Hotel - Macdonald Hotel, 81 Holyrood Road
Lothian Road Hotels
Point Hotel
Bread St.
0131 221 5555
Vibrant modern design, fair rates and great restaurant and bar at street level. Architects’ discount on rates: attractive, modern rooms.
Restaurant with real atmosphere and competitively priced food. For details of refurbishment from old Co-op interior see Point Hotel entry.
Edinburgh City Travel Inn
1 Morrison Link
0131 228 9819
Another Doolan product - bar/restaurant: not as sophisticated, of course, as the Point Hotel: City Travel Inn
Caledonian Hotel
Princes St. (Lothian Rd. junction)
0131 459 9988
Exclusive red-sandstone clad former railway terminus hotel with restaurants and bars: not contemporary but one half of the Victorian double-act with the Balmoral (formerly North British or NB) Hotel, Edinburgh's class stalwarts: Caledonian Hotel
New Town Hotels
The Bonham
35 Drumsheugh Gdns
0131 226 6050
Beautiful hotel & restaurant tucked behind preserved facade: The Bonham Hotel building refurbishment by Ron Galloway Architects, with lighting by Jonathan Speirs & Associates
Balmoral Hotel
1 Princes St
0131 556 2414
Former Railway terminus hotel at the east end of Princes Street where it meets the North Bridge, the Balmoral Hotel is an Edinburgh institution.
Hotel restaurant: Hadrian's Brasserie
Leith Hotels
Malmaison Hotel
The Shore
0131 468 5000
Former Seaman's Mission, restored to become the Malmaison Hotel Edinburgh 1994. The hotel interior was refurbished by reputable London architects. The grand entry now weakened by new housing.
Hotel Cafe Bar: 10am-10pm; Hotel Brasserie - please call for bookings
Brasserie 0131 468 5002
Reservations 0131 468 5003
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