The Top 29 Hotels Near Sebb's
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Self-check-in kiosks replace the front desk at this design-forward city-center hotel, so you're in your room before the usual lobby small talk can even begin. The rooms are compact but smartly laid out, with oversized beds, floor-to-ceiling windows, and mini-iPads that control everything from the mood lighting to the blackout blinds. The lobby fills with Eames chairs and iMacs, designed to feel like a co-working space that happens to have room keys.
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Harris tweed upholstery on the sofas gives away that you're firmly in Scotland, but the Georgian townhouse wrapping around Blythswood Square could pass for Edinburgh on a good day. This hundred-room luxury boutique hotel pairs marble baths and Egyptian-cotton beds with a full-service spa, a proper bar, and a restaurant in the old ballroom. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.
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A quiet row of converted Victorian townhouses on a residential Glasgow street, Hotel du Vin at One Devonshire Gardens runs on mahogany four-posters and high-pressure rain showers rather than flashy design or packed nightclubs. The 49 rooms are spacious and elegant without being precious, and the bistro and whisky bar give you a reason to linger downstairs. Visiting actors and pop stars are regulars, which the hotel is too well-mannered to advertise.
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The tennis court is painted Wimbledon green and purple, which tells you everything about who owns this Victorian country house hotel in Stirlingshire. Andy Murray bought it because he grew up next door, and he's kept it properly traditional without veering into tartan overload. Twenty rooms, snooker, fishing, shooting, and Gleneagles a short drive away. It holds a Michelin Key.
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A 2,000-acre working farm on a quiet Highland loch, Monachyle Mhor is a boutique hotel that can't quite decide if it's a farmhouse, a treehouse, a glamping wagon, or a pine cabin with a wood-burning stove, so it went ahead and became all of them. The restaurant leans on what the farm produces, and scones with cream appear at the bar at any hour, which is the correct policy. Salmon fishing, foraging, and a bracing loch swim are all on the table.
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A former bank vault now houses the spa, which tells you everything about how Gleneagles does things in Edinburgh. This luxury hotel and members' club on St Andrew Square runs Victorian grandeur through a very modern sensibility, with the rooftop bar at Lamplighters offering views over the square's statues below. Overnight guests get most of the perks of membership. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
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Two Victorian neoclassical houses face each other across a quiet street ten minutes from the city center, making up just 35 rooms in total. The owners are from Orkney and have leaned into it, giving the whole thing the unhurried feel of a Scottish country house without the draughts. Handmade Vispring beds, roll-top tubs in the suites, and a full restaurant by Scotland's National Chef round out a hotel that operates well above its modest footprint.
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A boutique hotel a short walk from Edinburgh Castle that skips the tartan-and-antler look entirely in favor of modernist furniture and bold graphic prints. Rooms are individually designed in calm neutrals, and two catch a castle view through the window. Three junior suites lean into comfort, and there are serviced apartments if you're staying long enough to need a kitchen. Bars, restaurants, and a pub-ish energy round out a place that doesn't quite fit any one category, which Edinburgh probably appreciates.
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Seven Georgian townhouses on Edinburgh's Charlotte Square, unified into a hotel that wears its New Town address without the stiff formality you'd expect. Inside, mid-century furniture and a lot of playful art do the softening. Rooms are comfortable without being solemn, public spaces run genuinely lively, and the tartan is kept to a tasteful minimum. A spa, pool, Tesla chauffeur service, and two restaurants round things out.
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Two beautifully preserved Georgian townhouses in the New Town, and the hotel inside them resists every temptation to drape tartan over everything. Nira Caledonia is a boutique hotel where the décor nods to Scotland without cosplaying it, and the spiral staircase does the work an elevator would ruin anyway. Blackwoods, the in-house restaurant, pours from a collection of over 25 Scotch whiskies, including the hotel's own bottle.
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Not a scrap of tartan anywhere on George Street, which for a New Town hotel is practically a manifesto. Eden Locke is an apartment-style hotel designed by a New York firm, and the muted pastels and modernist calm somehow read as more authentically Scottish than a thistle ever could. Every studio comes with a full kitchen, and the in-house café, Mayvn, draws a crowd that isn't staying the night.
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A Georgian townhouse on George Street with a nightclub in the basement and a line out the door most evenings, Tigerlily is a boutique hotel that commits fully to the contradiction. Upstairs, rooms lean into oversized sofas and plush duvets, with bathrooms that tip toward the decadent. The palette borrows from a Swinging Sixties mood without feeling like a costume. Hotel guests bypass the queue for the basement club, which is either a selling point or a warning, depending on your Thursday night.
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Victoria Street is already one of Edinburgh's more theatrical streets, so putting a hotel inside an 1860s building there is either obvious or inspired, probably both. Virgin Hotels Edinburgh splits the old bones of India Buildings, stone arches and wood-paneled bar intact, with unapologetically contemporary additions grafted on top. Rooms use a two-chamber layout, sliding doors dividing the dressing area from the bedroom, keeping things sleek without feeling like a stage set.
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A Georgian facade on George Street that looks exactly like Edinburgh should, until you check in and find yourself in Havana, or Cairo, or St. Petersburg. This small boutique hotel keeps 18 suites, each themed and decorated to match a world city with enough commitment to feel like a bit. Four bars and restaurants let guests drink their way from Paris to Shanghai without leaving the building.
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The building was a lunatic asylum once, which the Hotel du Vin wears lightly, having turned the old stone pile into one of Edinburgh's more atmospheric places to sleep. Rooms in the original wing have the edge on character, but the newer ones keep pace in finish and feel. Colors run dark and rich throughout, and the plaid is refreshingly restrained. Downstairs, a busy bistro and a well-stocked bar keep the whole thing from feeling too reverential.
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Apartment-style rooms with full kitchens sit directly across from St. Giles' Cathedral on the Royal Mile, which is a pretty hard address to argue with. Old Town Chambers is a boutique hotel where the stonework and period details in the common areas nod to centuries of Edinburgh history, while the rooms themselves stay light and contemporary. On nights when cooking feels like a bad idea, Luckenbooths Restaurant and Bar handles breakfast through dinner and cocktails.
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A boutique hotel wedged between the ancient stone facades of the Old Town and the Georgian grid of the New Town, which means you're equidistant from a whisky bar and a gallery no matter which way you walk. The interior goes clean and minimal, from the smaller rooms up to a generous suite. The rooftop lounge earns its keep with views that remind you exactly where you are, which is, by any measure, the right part of Edinburgh.
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The Scotsman's party trick is a wall hatch that lets room service, laundry, and polished shoes pass through without you ever opening the door, a detail that sounds like a prison feature and functions like a luxury one. The hotel occupies the red sandstone former offices of its namesake newspaper, a short walk from Waverley Station and the Royal Mile, and hides an Art Deco cinema somewhere inside. The rooms themselves run from retro-themed to sleekly modern.
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A rubber duck in every bathroom is the Apex group's signature move, and it lands somewhere between charming and inexplicably correct. This hotel near Waverley station sits in a grand Georgian building whose stately facade gives no warning of the bright, clean-lined interior behind it. Rooms are comfortable and modern without tipping into parody, and the suites shade into proper luxury without the eye-watering rates that word usually implies.
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Four rooms inside a Georgian townhouse on Royal Terrace, which tells you most of what you need to know about the scale and the seriousness. LYLA is the kind of boutique hotel where the minibar has clearly been thought about, the freestanding bathtubs feel like a genuine priority, and breakfast runs well past the usual luxury-hotel gestures. The rooms are moody and richly decorated, a counterpoint to the spare dining room one floor below.
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An 18th-century mansion on the edge of Holyrood Park, carefully restored and quietly operating as a boutique hotel under the University of Edinburgh's surprisingly good hospitality arm. Rooms lean contemporary, deep colors and marble bathrooms, Scottish in feeling without a scrap of tartan in sight. Bonnar's handles modern Scottish cooking downstairs, and the Gallery Bar skews swanky. A Michelin Selected Hotel.