WOW. What an amazing place to stay. A very clean, professional and outstanding hotel with brilliant staff and an excellent location. We have just stayed at this hotel for 1 night, it certainly wasnt long enough but we will be back, good rooms, excellent SPA facilities (dont forget your £1 coin), rooms are spacious well maintained, triple glazed, Good bathrooms with amazing roof hanging showers, an excellent range of COWSHED products for use in the bathrooms, Tea/Coffee making facilities nothing cheap all good makes, Planty of room for storing clothes, A study area, Too much too mention sorry.
If your off to Edinburgh please put this on your list of hotels to stay at, it really is worth it.
We paid £129 for the night, not including breakfast but it really is worth it as the rooms go for a lot more. £65pppn its nothing for this amazing hotel.

As you can see a lot of people have put excellent reviews in about The Scotsman Hotel, apart from a few moaners who want everything just outside their room everyone else is raving about it.

This hotel is a must.

Happy sleeping.

Preston Brookes.

I had always assumed that the Scotsman would be too expensive for anything other than a special occassion. But the hotel offered a rate of only £109 for a double room on a room only basis for a Friday night in January. This represents great value - the service is of a very high standard and the rooms are thoughfully designed. What I loved most about the place was staying in a building that has a real sense of history. Other reviewers have complained about the odd layout and the circuitous route you have to take to get to the Spa etc. But I would argue that this is the charm of the place. You are staying in a building that has played a really important part in Edinburgh's history.

The bathrooms are really great - even if the toiletries are attached to the wall! They are Cowshed products - so that more than makes up for their odd presentation.

The bar is fantastic - a brilliant place to meet friends.

My wife and I have just returned from a two night stay in the Scotsman and were more than happy with our £100/night deluxe room. Whether it is worth the £250 rack rate or the £400 quoted for the weekends when the Scottish rugby team are playing remains to be seen.

In terms of location it is hard to find a better placed hotel in Edinburgh, such is the Scotsman's proximity to both the Royal Mile and Princes Street (a couple of minutes walk to either destination). We also found the staff to be friendly and helpful, we had emailed ahead and were granted our request for an early check in (at 11.30), and during the course of the weekend nothing seemed to be of any trouble to them.

Having spent four years in Edinburgh during university I was aware that the Airport bus is excellent value (£5 return) and is certainly a good option for Scotsman guests as the final stop is Waverly Station (a few minutes walk from the Scotsman's lower entrance) Considering that a taxi usually costs £15-20 each way only those who have a reason to need a taxi should consider it a preferable option.

Our room was spacious and had a few nice touches like surround sound for the plasma screen tv and privacy hatch for room service. We had a lovely hot chocolate in the hotel brasserie after a morning of ice skating in Princes Street Gardens and also enjoyed a delicious lunch there on the Sunday afternoon before we left.

why only four out of five? The lifts are a disaster - especially if you are bound for the otherwise excellent spa facilities. You have to change lifts, wander narrow corriders that don't seem to lead anywhere, before finally crossing a bridge and taking another lift down to the basement. they frequently took forever to arrive and were out of order at other times. The other problem is less of the Scotsman's making in that it has the misfortune of being in the shadow (literally) of it's larger and grander rival The Balmoral. Having now stayed in both hotels It was obvious to me that although the Scotsman has been designed with sereral modern touches in an effort to offer an alternative to the grand dames of the Balmoral and The Caledonian it will always be measured against it's more traditional rivals. In that competition it doesn't quite measure up.....yet

Very nice hotel indeed. Paid £129 for deluxe room and wasn't disappointed. Had large room wiv tv and seperate office section over the back. Bathroom was very nice with best shower hav ever used! Superb location just on border of edinburgh's old town, excellent to explore royal mile and ghost walks in evening. Our cases were carried up to our room and after the bar closed we were shown to a private room where we cld continue drinking for as long as we wanted. Highly recommended!