Find Edinburgh Cheap Hotels

Edinburgh can be as expensive as any other city in Europe when it comes to finding a hotel room. The canny traveller should be able to find good cheap hotels and alternative accommodation within their budget.

The best sites for cheap Edinburgh Hotels

It’s definitely worth visiting the main travel operators like Expedia to check prices. You’ll often find cheap prices on the large chain hotels and also if you combine your hotel with a car hire or flight.

Some other places I always check for cheap Edinburgh hotels.

• www.laterooms.co.uk – hotels place their empty rooms on this site to help fill them at the last minute. Often find good deals here sunday-wednesday.
• www.booking.com at HolidayScotland – Holiday Scotland have a comprehensive Edinburgh hotel search with the booking.com engine.

The cheapest hotels in Edinburgh are Hostels

With such a large number of visitors coming to Edinburgh on a budget looking for a cheap hotel, a number of excellent value, clean comfy hostels have opened up to fill the gap. In many you can have your own room and en-suite and loads of them are situated right in the city centre. Hostel rooms can be half the price of hotel rooms.

Find a cheap hotel outside Edinburgh city centre

This is a compact little city and if you really want a cheap hotel in Edinburgh, ignore all the listings you find for hotels on the Royal Mile or Princes Street. By booking an Edinburgh hotel room a few minutes bus ride from the city centre or a 20 minute walk, you have a large number of hotels to choose from, almost guaranteed to be cheaper than the Edinburgh City Centre hotels. Look for hotels in Areas like Newington, Bruntsfield, Stockbridge, Murrayfield, Leith.

Try a guest house instead of a cheap hotel in Edinburgh

When searching for a cheap hotel in Edinburgh, don’t limit yourself to checking the “hotels only” box in whatever search you are doing. Guest houses can often provide everything that a hotel provides but at a cheaper price. Many guest houses in Edinburgh are friendlier than hotels but still offer en-suite, parking, breakfast and dinner, licensed bar etc. You often couldn’t tell the difference between a guest house and a hotel, especially with the larger ones.

Avoid Festival Time to get a Cheap Hotel Room

The Edinburgh festival swells the size of the city by 10’s of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of visitors. It’s very difficult to find a cheap Edinburgh hotel during the festival. Prices in Edinburgh hotels are often very high in August.

At new year, avoid a few days either side of Hogmanay – Edinburgh’s hotels are also very busy and it can be difficult to find a cheap hotel room anywhere in the vicinity at this time.

Comfortable bed and breakfast hotel in Edinburgh just 15 minutes walk from the centre. Great location in more residential part of town with friendly service, comfortable rooms and a good breakfast. This friendly, independent two star Edinburgh hotel has 45 bedrooms all with small en-suite shower rooms. No parking on-site but there is a car park a short walk from the hotel. Rooms are equipped with direct dial telephones, television, hospitality tray, trouser press and hairdryer. The hotel is completely non smoking both in the public areas and the bedrooms. An elevator serves the three upper floors.

The Apex European Hotel is in Edinburgh’s West End, only 5 minutes walk from main shopping areas Princes Street and George Street. The EICC and Lothian Road are also very close for those on business, and for sports fans Murrayfield and Tynecastle Stadium are 15-20 minutes walk. There is some free parking available on site and a public car park just along the road.

The Apex European has 66 bedrooms, all with large comfortable beds, widescreen TVs, luxury toiletries, power showers, free wi-fi and free local calls along with 24 hour room service.

The hotel also has a bar and restaurant.

There are three rooms in the meeting and events centre with capacities from 10 to 100.

The Roxburghe is a luxurious central Edinburgh hotel located right on Charlotte Square. This is one of the oldest of Edinburgh’s hotels and is situated near Bute House, residence of Scotland’s First Minister. The hotel has had a full refurbishment recently allowing all 198 rooms to maintain a high standard.

Charlotte Square sits is at the West End of Edinburgh’s town centre and is surrounded by attractions, high quality shopping, bars and restaurants.

The Glasshouse Hotel is in central Edinburgh near the Playhouse Theatre and is one of the most prestigious hotel locations in the capital.

Floor-to-ceiling windows, beds so big you’ll slumber sweet, the crispest Egyptian cotton bed linen, baths built to soak in long and deep…A lavender-scented roof garden, acres of sun-splashed patios and cool, shady verandas, eat and drink wherever you like…Service to your room day and night, shoes shined to a polished conker gleam, whiskies imbued with the character of their Highland home…

You might be forgiven for assuming such a place must be a figment of your imagination. But behind the façade of the old church, you’ll find the clean, modern lines of The Glasshouse – a 5 star boutique hotel right in the heart of Edinburgh.

Voted by Conde Nast Traveller as one of the top 50 hottest hotels in the world. Winner of the ‘Most Stylish Hotel’ by the Scottish Style Awards. Winner ‘Most Sexiest Hotel in Scotland’ by Hotel Review Scotland. Awarded five star status by VisitScotland.