Prestonfield
Edinburgh, United Kingdom [view map]
- Style
- Sumptuous and decadent
- Setting
- City-centre Highlands
A 22-bedroom country manor, just a short drive from Edinburgh's teeming city centre, has opulent interiors – an example of maximalism at its best.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 22.
- Rates
- £225–£350, including full Scottish breakfast.
- Check-out
- Midday.
- Facilities
- Golf course, croquet lawn, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: Bose sound system, DVD player, plasma TV.
- Children
- Welcome up to the age of 12: an additional bed can be provided in your room at an extra charge.
- Also
- The hotel has three rooms for private dining: the Garden (seats 50); the Stuart Room (seats 16); and the Italian Room (seats 28).
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Top-floor rooms are very romantic, with combed ceilings, and walls upholstered in aubergine silk toile, and great views looking on to the parkland. The Franklin Suite has a spectacular sleigh bed with an ornate silver-leaf finish.
- Packing tips
- Umbrella; the weather is reliably unreliable. Your literature wish-list.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- At Rhubarb, chef John McMahon (the man behind Madonna's wedding banquet) creates modern Scottish food from the best seasonal produce. Expect lobster thermidor, pan-seared foie gras and wild salmon dishes. Opulent gold, red and black rooms.
- Dress code
- Low-key luxe.
- Top table
- Table 5, next to the window is a good choice, but for an unbeatably intimate atmosphere, book the salon privée – a sumptuous dining nook for two.
- Last orders
- Rhubarb is open 12h–15h and 18h–23h.
- Room service
- 24-hour, but there is a reduced menu after midnight, serving smoked-salmon sandwiches, cheese and biscuits, steak, Caesar salad.
- Hotel bar
- There are four bars, all with open fires: the Yellow Room with black crocodile banquettes; the candlelit Tapestry Room; the Whisky Bar, which has 100 malts on offer; and the Leather Room.
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Prestonfield
Priestfield Road, Edinburgh, Scotland