Edinburgh, United Kingdom

100 Princes Street

Price per night from$399.70

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (GBP301.50), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Opulent Caledonian

Setting

Enviable castle outlook

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Directly opposite Edinburgh Castle, 100 Princes Street is steeped in the adventurous spirit of Scottish explorers. Occupying the former Royal Overseas League building, the hotel looks like a Victorian gallivant’s home, with bespoke tartans and Caledonian colour schemes offset by worldly antiques and botanical motifs. The decadent bar and restaurant command covetable views of Castle Rock, and cultural immersion comes in the form of whisky tastings and tartan workshops. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

30, including 11 suites.

Check–Out

Noon; check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates don’t include breakfast; choose from the full Scottish (£35) or Continental spread (£28). Suites get valet parking, butler service and free access to a local health club, plus a one-way airport transfer if you’re staying for over three nights.

Also

The hotel has a platform lift at the front door and its common spaces are wheelchair accessible. There are two accessible Executive King rooms, and each has an adapted bathroom with a roll-in shower.

At the hotel

Free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, minibar, free bottled water, tea- and coffee-making kit, bathrobes, slippers and bespoke bath products; suites also have a Bluetooth sound system.

Our favourite rooms

The spirit of Caledonia is strong at 100 Princes Street. You’ll find sporrans hanging from the doors and tartan fabrics on many of the walls, bedspreads and lampshades, created bespoke by Scottish textile designer Araminta Campbell. The Executive King Rooms with Castle Views hit the sweet spot, balancing space, Scottish character and mediaeval eye candy. For all-out indulgence, swing for the Isobel Signature Suite, named after adventurer Isobel Wylie Hutchison and full of nods to her Arctic travels and botanical research.

Packing tips

Edinburgh’s sandstone landmarks look particularly grand on grainy film; doubly so if it’s black and white. If you own a vintage camera, dig it out.

Also

A hand-painted mural stretches the full length of the hotel’s five-storey staircase, illustrating the journeys and discoveries of famous Scottish botanists.

Pet‐friendly

Pets are welcome at 100 Princes Street. A £50 deposit will be charged on arrival and refunded at check-out, given no extra cleaning is required. Food and water bowls are provided, and pet sitting is available for an extra charge. See more pet-friendly hotels in Edinburgh.

Children

All ages are welcome. Children under five can stay in their parents’ room for free. For over-fives, an extra bed can be added to some rooms for £30 a night; for older children, separate rooms with a shared hallway are available on request.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Request a table by the vast bay windows, from which you’ll be able to watch the sun setting on Castle Rock.

Dress Code

If ever there were a place that called for a bit of Scotch glamour, this is it. Don a velvet smoking jacket, a splash of tartan, or borrow from the emerald and purple tones of the thistle.

Hotel restaurant

The Wallace is the hotel’s clubby, guests-only restaurant and lounge. The decor is dark and decadent: the walls are clad in embossed leather and teal sofas and leather armchairs create an elegantly informal arrangement, offset by marble fireplaces and ormolu antiques. South African chef Wilhelm Rudolf Maree is at the helm in the kitchen, turning out Scottish comfort classics like haggis bon bons with whisky sauce, lobster rolls and beer-battered haddock with thick-cut chips.

Hotel bar

The elegant, wood-panelled bar is in the Wallace Lounge. Perch on a leather stool at the counter or sink into one of the armchairs spread around the room, surrounded by nautical antiques and objets that speak to the building's adventuring past. The bar’s 100-strong collection of whiskies is displayed in glass cabinets, with the finest malts kept in the Ghillie’s Pantry tasting room. Head bartender Dario Orsili is an expert in the Scottish spirit and will happily guide you to rare and unusual drams. There’s an excellent wine list, too, including New World and first-growth Bordeaux vintages.

Last orders

Breakfast is served from 6.30am—11am (noon, on weekends). The all-day dining menu is available from noon to midnight.

Room service

In-room dining is available around the clock, but a reduced menu of food and alcoholic drinks is served from 11pm to 6.30am.

Location

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Address
100 Princes Street
100 Princes Street
Edinburgh
EH2 3AB
United Kingdom

Commanding uninterrupted views of Edinburgh Castle, 100 Princes Street is bang in the middle of its namesake thoroughfare, on the southern flank of Edinburgh’s New Town.

Planes

Edinburgh’s international airport is a 30-minute drive from the hotel. The Airlink Tram, which departs from just outside arrivals, takes around the same time; hop off at Princes Street, a two-minute walk from the hotel.

Trains

Scenic rail routes from Inverness and London call at Edinburgh Waverley. When you’re leaving the station, take the Princes Street exit; from there, it’s a 10-minute walk to the hotel.

Automobiles

You won’t need a car in Edinburgh: the city centre is best seen on foot and there’s an award-winning bus network and plenty of cabs to get you around. If you choose to drive, the hotel can arrange valet parking for £80 a night at a nearby carpark.

Worth getting out of bed for

100 Princes Street aims for total cultural immersion. Join the head bartender for a whisky tasting in the Ghillie’s Pantry, stocked with exceptional drams from across Scotland and beyond. The country’s wealth of distilling knowledge has also led to a burgeoning gin industry and the concierge can arrange for you to craft your own gin at Kingsbarns Distillery near St Andrews. With a month’s notice, you can book onto a private tartan workshop with textile artist Araminta Campbell, who takes commissions for bespoke creations.  

The hotel’s New Town location has you well placed for exploring Stockbridge, a neighbourhood with an artsy, bookish lean that’s prized for its delis (try Herbie of Edinburgh), bottle shops (Vino) and coffee spots (Artisan Roast). From Stockbridge, join the forested Water of Leith Walkway to Dean Village, a former grain-milling quarter filled with bucolic rubble-stone houses. The path snakes all the way to Modern One and Modern Two, Edinburgh’s National Galleries of Modern Art. 

Local restaurants

Ascend to the minimalist, glass-walled Lookout, atop the Royal Observatory on Calton Hill, where you’ll get that iconic view of Edinburgh that appears on postcards. For dinner, try Japanese-inspired Noto on Thistle Street. It’s a sharing-plates set-up, with dishes like trout temaki with yuzu kosho and daikon, and Barra skate served with asparagus and Exmoor caviar. Sustainable Scottish restaurant Moss takes the farm-to-table concept to new heights. More than 90 of its ingredients come from its own organic farm in Angus, which also supplied the wood used for the tables, soil for the ceramics and even the ash-based paint that coats the walls. 

Local bars

Francophile drinking hole The Bon Vivant, at 55 Thistle Street, is the go-to spot for champagne and fine French wines. For a more speakeasy-style ambience, find the ‘secret’ door to would-be barber shop Panda & Sons, where the mixologists sling some of the best cocktails in the capital. 

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this heritage-steeped hotel in Edinburgh and unpacked their bespoke tartan made on one of the hotel’s tartan workshops, a full account of their city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside 100 Princes Street in Edinburgh… 

A spiritual home for the intrepid, 100 Princes Street is inspired by Scots who wouldn’t stay put: Alexander Gordon Laing, an Edinburgh local and the first European to reach Timbuktu; Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Arctic traveller and botanist. 

These are but two of the characters who inform the hotel’s old-world and adventurous aesthetic. Scottish heritage designs are front and centre, including bespoke tartans, teal velvets and brass-studded leathers. Mingled throughout are the trappings of a life spent on (or should that be off?) the road: maps, globes and chandeliers shaped like vintage hot-air balloons. 

But, it’s more than mere looks — the Wallace, the hotel’s inviting bar and restaurant, is reserved for guests, creating an intimate members’-club-like atmosphere. Swap tales with fellow travellers over 25-year-old single malts or embark on a fly-fishing day trip to the River Tweed. The world’s your oyster, and 100 Princes Street is your Scottish pearl. 

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