Dunstane House is is a lovely 4 star hotel near central Edinburgh. It is a 10 minute walk from Haymarket railway station, with a regular bus service to and from Princes Street. . Excellent accomodation with a flavour of the Orkneys in its choice of menu. Well worth paying a little extra for the four poster ensuite rooms.
This is the second time we have stayed and will do so again.

Fed up of standard egg-box hotels?

The Dunstane House Hotel is a charming alternative to chain hotels. This is my favourite Edinburgh hotel. not because it has the best rooms or the best facilities, but because I have always found that the staff are friendly and accommodating (I have counted, I have stayed there six times).

Good points:

On the main express bus route from the airport, the bus stop is right outside the hotel (Edinburgh bus services are really good).
Haymarket railway station is a short walk or bus ride away. Access to the city centre is similarly good.
A good bar, with many malts!
Good bathrooms, excellent toiletries.
Pleasant breakfast, cooked to order.
Most rooms very good. This is an old building, the rooms vary,

Less good points:

Well, the varied rooms! The singles and small doubles can be very small. There seems to be too much furniture in them.

Try this hotel, it is different and nice.

I booked this hotel on-line on the 20th September 2007 for the dates of 29th Sept till 1st Oct.
Myself and a work colleague had arranged to stay there at the same time and spend a social week-end together along with our partners.
I was phoned by the hotel on the 27th Sept , 2 days before my break to be told they had a wedding that week-end and had double booked and were unable to honour my booking. I was offered a 3 star hotel , The Thistle Court which was apparently across the road. It only supplied a continental breakfast but and i quote " i could cross the road to the Dunstane for a cooked breakfast if i so desired". This is the main road into Edinburgh !!
To cut a long story short i cancelled the booking and was fortunate at such short notice ( at greater expense i might add) to get accomodation elsewhere but of course was unable to stay with my friend and his partner , very inconvenient !!
The nub is , this hotel had the audacity to charge me a cancellation fee of £118:00 after assuring me i would not be as it was their cock-up. Also when i phoned to rectify this the person i spoke to couldn't care less as " she was on holiday then". I of course had the charge credited back to me eventually but at my inconvenience.
I have never set foot over the place and my advice is to not touch it with a barge pole if this is an example of their attention to detail !!
And by the way , my friend who did stay there told me there was no wedding either, so they lied about that also !!

I travel to Edinburgh several times a year, stayed in dozens of hotels, this is the best it gets. Unless the hotel is fully booked I would never now consider staying anywhere else.
Food fantastic...try the Grimbister cheese.. Its always clean freindly...the staff stay. The proprietors are attentive and the staff are well trained.
Orkney beef is the best it gets and the chef knows hust how to cook it. And the seafood, you willl have to bepay twice the price for anything coming close somewhere else.
It does cost me £20 more a night than I am able to reclaim...but in Edinburgh its still excellent value.
To those who have submitted the odd negative review...this is not a chain hotel but it is a business with commercial rates and costs in an expensive city- the owners must make a profit, and if you are not good on stairs try the sister hotel accross the road, not so nice but good value.

My huge worry know is that if I press submit then you will all want to stay and the next time I need to go on a trip it will be full, I will take the risk.