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1 Royal Circus, Edinburgh EH3 6TL
EH3 6TL
One Royal Circus
- Style
- Neoclassical playboy mansion
- Setting
- Refined New Town crescent
Overnighting at One Royal Circus is like staying at an impossibly cool friend’s townhouse, without having to be charming to the friend. This grand bed and breakfast (B&B in this case standing for ‘bed of roses and breakfast of champions’) is also perfectly located on a classic Georgian crescent.
Need to know
- Rooms
- Five, including two suites.
- Rates
- In low season, £158–£198; in high season, £178–£258, including breakfast and drinks.
- Check-out
- 1pm, but flexible. Earliest check-in, 9am.
- Facilities
- Gym, gardens, Bonzini Babyfoot table, Brunswick pool table, baby grand piano, library of books, CDs and DVDs, free WiFi. In rooms, flatscreen TV, CD/DVD player (on request), iPod dock, Frette bedlinen, Arran Aromatics/L’Occitane toiletries.
- Children
- You’re welcome to bring the bairns: extra beds and cots can be provided for £45 a night; free for under-fives. Babysitting is available with advance notice (£7 an hour), and there are books, PlayStations and games to entertain them.
- Also
- Rent the house exclusively to celebrate special occasions with family and friends.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Each of the rooms is spacious, and bathrooms are all tricked out with Hansgrohe fittings by Philippe Starck. We love the three suites, which occupy the upper floors; those at the front have views over Royal Circus gardens. The top-floor master suite can be made into a family suite with an interconnecting room for the kids that features handmade wooden bunk beds. Downstairs rooms are nice too, but they don't have the views.
- Packing tips
- Preloaded iPod to dock in your room; killer heels for posing on the red-velvet Edra Tatlin spiral sofa while your other mixes your martini.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- No restaurant, but your morning repast – be it Continental or full Scottish – will be cooked to order using the finest, freshest ingredients available. You’ll be spoiled rotten with Illy coffees, Bloody Marys and Bucks Fizz.
- Dress code
- Come as you are and treat the hotel as a grand home from home.
- Top table
- Breakfast is served in a modern diner-style kitchen. Take your drinks into the drawing room, recline on a chaise longue and admire the beautiful original 1820s ceiling paintings.
- Last orders
- … schmast orders.
- Room service
- None, but feel free to help yourself to tea, coffe and drinks at any time.
- Hotel bar
- There’s no such thing as last orders in this French-style lounge, and the owners will gladly offer you an aperitif or a nightcap.
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Local restaurants
Iglu is an award-winning gastropub on Jamaica Street (+44 (0)131 476 5333); the food is organic, local, eco, ethical or all of the above. Insist on a window seat at Oloroso, a rooftop restaurant and lounge bar on Castle Street (+44 (0)131 226 7614), for gourmet Mediterranean food and a fantastic selection of sherries.
Local cafes
On North West Circus Place, laid-back caffè Zanzero serves as a sassy-but-simple lunch spot, wizarding up a full-circle range of fresh Italian produce (+44 (0)131 220 0333). Valvona & Crolla, the pre-eminent deli on Elm Row, keeps gastronauts smiling with cooked-to-order pasta lunches and crumbly lemon cake (+44 (0)131 556 6066). When only a refined afternoon tea accompanied by a harpist will do, visit the Balmoral Hotel’s Palm Court on Princes Street (+44 (0)131 556 2414).
Nightlife
You want chic cocktails, cutting-edge interiors and disco attitude, all tucked away inside a Georgian townhouse? Tigerlily’s the place for you. This smart hangout also has an excellent restaurant and its own club, Lulu (+44 (0)131 225 5005).
Worth getting out of bed for
Fancy an alfresco mooch? Head to the Water of Leith for pleasant walks along the river (www.waterofleith.org.uk). If shopping’s on your agenda, the retail riches of Princes Street are only a five-minute walk away. Invest in an Edinburgh Pass, which gets you into more than 30 attractions and allows free bus rides in the city centre, as well as return transfers to the airport.
A one-day pass costs £24; for details, go to www.edinburgh.org/pass.
Diary
25 January Burns Night. March Ceilidh Culture Festival (www.ceilidhculture.co.uk). July Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival (www.edinburghjazzfestival.co.uk). August The Edinburgh Festival colonises the town, along with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (see our events guide Smith 52 for details, or buy the book for the full insider lowdown), the Book Festival and the International Film Festival (www.edinburgh-festivals.com). December Shoppers ahoy! Edinburgh's Christmas market lights up East Princes Street (www.edinburghscapitalchristmas.org). Hogmanay (also featured in Smith 52) is Edinburgh's way of ringing in the new year (www.edinburghshogmanay.org).
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Number of people
- 2-40
- Licensed for weddings
- Yes
Wow factor
Weddings ceremonies take place in a showstopper of a room, William Playfair's Grade A-listed Georgian Salon with original 18th-century ceiling frescoes. The Salon offers magnificent views across the gardens of Royal Circus crescent.
Need to know
If you suddenly feel the need to commit, ceremonies can be conducted at relatively short notice. One Royal Circus only has five rooms, but there are plenty of other options for guests nearby.
Inspiration
One Royal Circus is famous for its attention to detail, and can organise everything from pre-wedding beauty treatments, to the cake, flowers and going-away transport (how about a traditional purple Edinburgh double-decker bus?). The team have lots of useful contacts and can help put together something really unusual and imaginative for you. If you'd rather just throw a big pre- or post-wedding bash, there's room for 150 party people.
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Best for
- Babies and up – children of all ages welcomed.
Recommended rooms
All rooms can fit an extra bed or cot. Under fives stay free; older children pay £45 a night to stay in parents' rooms. The top-floor master suite can be made into a family suite with an interconnecting room, featuring handmade bunk beds.
Activities
There is a selection of children's books, PlayStations and toys to borrow; just ask at reception. There's a large garden, and children can also run around the library and pool room, where's there's also a fabulous Bonzini Babyfoot table football.
Meals
Breakfast (full Scottish or Continental) is the only meal served here, but the chef is happy to take child-friendly requests.
Babysitting
Babysitting can be organised at £7 an hour. Please give as much notice as possible.
Also
There's a DVD player in every room, and a selection of child-friendly DVDs to borrow. Each room also has an iPod player and dock, so don't forget to download some nursery rhymes. You can also borrow a video player.
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