The pleasant city hotel enjoys a peaceful inner city location within a short distance of Edinburgh Zoo and some 10 minutes from the city centre. There are many shopping venues as well as countless bars, restaurants and nightclubs to be found in the surrounding area (within 4 km of the hotel) and the main train station is also just 4 km away. Links to the public transport network can easily be reached on foot and transfer to the airport takes about 25 minutes. It is some 9 km to the seaside and the nearest ski area.||This 5-storey hotel comprises a total of 303 rooms and features an elegant foyer with a 24-hour reception desk, a safe, a lift and a cosy café in addition to a bar and an air-conditioned restaurant. Business guests may make use of several function rooms that are suitable for conferences and meetings and there is a public Internet terminal available for use. Those arriving by car may make use of the hotel car park and room and laundry services round off the offerings.||Each of the comfortable rooms comes with an en suite bathroom with a shower and a hairdryer, a direct dial telephone, satellite TV, a radio, an Internet connection, a minibar, a hire safe, a double bed, central heating and coffee and tea making facilities.||It is about 1.6 km to the nearest golf course.||Guests may select their breakfast from an ample buffet; lunch and the evening meal can be chosen from a menu. It is possible to book a half-board stay.