Need to know
Rooms
33.
Check–Out
11am. Earliest check-in, 3pm, but both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.
More details
Rates include breakfast (perhaps a ‘nduja scramble, almond brioche or smoothie bowl).
Also
Common areas, one Town Room and one House Room are wheelchair-accessible, where bathrooms have roll-in showers with fold-down seats, and there are vibrating alarms on request for guests with a hearing impairment. There's a lift to all floors too.
At the hotel
Wellness studio and gym, lounges, charged laundry and dry-cleaning and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV with streaming services, free-to-download newspapers and magazines, minibar, house-blend coffee and Pekoe tea from Leith, free snacks and bottled water, air-conditioning, bathrobes and slippers, hair-straighteners and bespoke bath products.
Our favourite rooms
Rooms come in different colourways, with various antiques on display, but each is glamorously Georgian, with rich velvets, parquet and marbles. You can go even further up in the world by booking a Town or Master room, which have a bath tub and more captivating city views.
Spa
If health is wealth, then Gleneagles is taking care of it very well — the former bank vaults here have been transformed into the Strong Rooms, a spa and gym space. It’s minted with an infrared sauna, cryotherapy chamber and treatments by the likes of Dr Barbara Sturm and Tata Harper; and guests have access to dozens of free classes (barre, Pilates, breathwork, strength and conditioning, spinning…). The equipment mirrors that at Gleneagles in Perthshire, so you can keep up your regime on a twinned stay.
Packing tips
Yes, the hotel has sturdy umbrellas to borrow, so you can leave space for the finer, artisanal objets: cashmeres, wool and tweed tailoring, bespoke perfumes and bags, teas, something bottle-shaped, and — go on then — the odd sporran.
Also
The elegant Note-Burning Room (formerly the board room) is only open to members — but, on occasion, longer-staying guests may be ushered in at the staff’s discretion.
Pet‐friendly
Up to two dogs (no bigger than a labrador) can stay in some rooms for £100 a night, each. They’ll get a bed, bowls and biscuits; outside the room they must be leashed and can’t go in the dining room or bars. See more pet-friendly hotels in Edinburgh.
Children
The hotel is more for those of whisky-sipping age, but interconnecting rooms, cots and babysitting (via external company Little Royals) can be requested.
Sustainability efforts
The hotel has pledged to reduce its emissions to net-zero by 2040. To help them meet this goal, they have energy-efficient lighting, change bedlinens less frequently (unless guests request it), use refillable bath products, source produce locally and work with food-waste management system Winnow, which uses scales, camera technology and AI to monitor usage. The rest of the hotel’s waste is either recycled or repurposed, and during renovations, energy-efficient tech was implemented.
