| Hotels Edinburgh |
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
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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 |
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| 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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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| East Lothian Hotels |
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Greywalls Hotel Duncur Road, Muirfield, Gullane, East Lothian +44 (0)1620 842144 summer opening only Lutyens-designed house, Gertrude Jekyll-designed gardens: like entering an Agatha Christie film. Decadent, charming and superb location but food lacking a level of finesse considering the heavy tarriff, or so I thought after my first visit. A second visit on the opening night for 2002 was delightful. Grey Walls Hotel, however is not about food [amongst my family], it's about being cosseted: you are welcomed into the Library for obligatory drinks before the roaring fire with views out to the sea. You are made to feel welcome. You are made to feel at home. |
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Brown's
Hotel 1 West Road, Haddington +44 (0)1620 822254 Another non-contemporary building - a large former private house on the main road into Haddington from the west. Service at Browns Hotel Haddington was very personal and rather unusual on our visit. The dining room is fancy and the food showy but one was left wondering what the fuss was about. |
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