We decided not to travel too far for our honeymoon as my wife is expecting so Edinburgh was our chosen destination (hadn't been before).

The entire hotel exoerience with the Scotsman was truely excellent.

The hotel itself is glorious from the outside as it is old edinburgh architecture set right in the heart of this beautiful city.
Inside you have lovely marble staircases with beautiful wood panelling, open fires and courteous and friendly staff always on hand to help with your every need.

We stayed for 4 nights and when we were shown to our room on the 3rd floor we were truly amazed. We had a huge bathroom with Cowshed toiletries, a Tv that retracted into its cabinet, stocked minibar, massive very comfortable bed and the room had huge vaulted ceilings with gorgeous wood panneling and enorous blackout curtains. the view was across Princes Gardens to the Scots monument and Princes street.

We also received a complimentary bottle of Campagne (as it was our honeymoon).

Breakfast was fab, you could have cerials, bread cheese, fruit smoked salmon, porridge, eggs florentine, coked Scots breakfast. Pretty much anything and the dining room carried the old Scotsman newspaper theme throughout (you can buy the crockery).

The only small thing was that carparking (as with the vast majority of Edinburgh hotels) is in the local NCP carpark but the Hotel does give yo a reduction on the standard daily rate.

Overall - Fab, we WILL be back (+1 of course!)

I stayed here for one night whilst pasisng through on business. The Scotsman is ideally situated in the centre next to the main rail station. Good experience on check in. I found the room slightly odd, it had a seperate seating area however there was no TV here and the furniture could do with updating. Bathroom quite small. I thought the room was an Ok 4 star standard but not 5 star. I ate in the hotel brasserie, this was not such a good experience. Had to wait ages for a table and ended up asking again. Other diners were complaining about the wait even though the restaurant was not busy. Food OK but not exceptional. Would give this another chance and stay here again, but probably eat elsewhere.

I spent 4 days in hotel in March 2008. During that four day I have been told ONCE good morning by hotel stuff. Five star hotel Scotsman doesn’t greet the guests, you just pass next to reception or concierge and they do not say anything or not even look at you. It was so unprofessional and finally rude. The room was decent even though a bit smaller for the price you pay. If you are lucky to spend a few hundred pounds for the room on the 5th floor, facing the train station you will be lucky to hear some chat of drank people at night. If you want to reach an extra pillow to cover your ears at 3 am, it will not happen because you will get one pillow per person. However it is a nice cotton pillow case
I highly do not recommend this hotel and I hope the hotel manager will change something soon because it is embarrassing and humiliating to get such a bad service and treatment. At least they can change their 5 stars into 3 stars.

I booked a four night stay, online. The hotel says in their blurb, wonderful views over firth of forth etc, but you must stress this in your booking.
I booked a Publisher suite, which was a nice room, good size, bed far too soft though!!, but overlooking North Bridge. It was extremely noisy as there is a bus stop just below, despite being on the sixth floor.
The web site does say no parking, with preferential rates at a nearby car park, but as a previous reviewer states, no legal parking anywhere which can be an issue.
The room was too noisy for my taste and unfortunately no other suitable room available, so I decided t leave after one night.
The lift is too small, bit smelly with a drainy smell and very very slow. The hotel is rather rabbit warren like and easy to lose your way.
The breakfast was good, but overall having travelled the world and stayed in some great hotels, this hotel will not be on my return list