HotelChatter - Tag: Edinburgh Hotels

Edinburgh: Help Charity and Have a Happy Hogmanay at the George Hotel in Edinburgh

juliab — 2010-12-06T16:00:49-05:00

Hogmanay fireworks

If there’s one place we’d love to have a blowout on New Year’s Eve, it’d be Edinburgh. Which is unfortunate, because it means we’re sorely tempted by the deal that the George Hotel has going for Hogmanay right now.

It’s auctioning off its massive Panorama suite – which comes with a roof terrace looking over Edinburgh Castle and across as far as Fife – for the 31st. And, even more winningly, it’s in aid of charity, too.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh's 21212 is Proudly a 'Restaurant with Rooms'

EricRosen — 2010-11-04T10:25:13-05:00

<![CDATA[<object id="flashObj" width="486" height="412" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="@videoPlayer=632972243001&playerID=4862856001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAE7CVnI~,RUihgoZlRJi9tuTl58qaAut8tr6OMl2M&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="@videoPlayer=632972243001&playerID=4862856001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAE7CVnI~,RUihgoZlRJi9tuTl58qaAut8tr6OMl2M&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object> While on a recent trip to <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/city/Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, we spent our last night gorging ourselves at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/21212+-+Restaurant+With+Rooms/ian/340402">21212</a>, a restaurant opened in 2009 by Chef Paul Kitching and his partner, Katie OBrien, and staying in one of the four upstairs bedrooms in the Georgian house that they renovated. Whatever you do, though, dont call 21212 a bed and breakfast. That just gets their kilts all a-ruffle. We were told, quite strictly, that 21212 is a restaurant with

Edinburgh: Allow The Kilted Doorman at the Hotel Missoni to Explain Why You Should Stay Here

EricRosen — 2010-10-08T13:06:43-05:00

<![CDATA[<object id="flashObj" width="486" height="412" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="@videoPlayer=629233959001&playerID=4862856001&playerKey=AQ%2E%2E,AAAAAE7CVnI%2E,RUihgoZlRJi9tuTl58qaAut8tr6OMl2M&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="@videoPlayer=629233959001&playerID=4862856001&playerKey=AQ%2E%2E,AAAAAE7CVnI%2E,RUihgoZlRJi9tuTl58qaAut8tr6OMl2M&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object>Welcome to our regular feature, Pitch Your Hotel, where we let hoteliers, general managers and other hotel execs tell us on-camera what makes their hotels so different from all the rest. And believe us, the competition is fierce these days. So sit back, relax and listen to them explain why their hotels are worthy of your hard-earned dollars or rewards points. Between the scotch sipping and nighttime ghosts and ghouls tours in Edinburgh last week, we holed

Edinburgh: Holiday Inn Reaches 2,000 Hotels 'Relaunched,' But How Many More?

JetSetCD — 2010-03-19T09:32:20-05:00

The lobby at the relaunched Chicago Mart Plaza Holiday Inn

Not only is the huge Holiday Inn chain in the midst of renovating and "relaunching" their hotels, but they're also getting their act together to be the official hotels of the 2012 Olympics in London. For this reason, we're not super surprised that the honor of being Holiday Inn's 2,000th relaunched hotel goes to a UK property: the Holiday Inn Express at Edinburgh Waterfront.

It's a huge milestone for a such a small hotel, and now that the chain has reached 2,000, they're two-thirds of the way through the massive chain facelift, which began back in 2007.

Edinburgh: Malmaison Presents a Tale of Two Scottish Cities

juliab — 2010-02-19T13:14:41-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/maledinburg.jpg" class="top"> Mal Edinburgh - the original Malmaison Were fans of the British <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/malmaison%20hotels">Malmaison</a> chain for decent value in interesting locations (all their hotels used to be some kind of cool old building) so wed be up for trying their latest package a Tale of Two Scottish Cities. Its no quicky break youll spend a whole week between <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/glasgow%20hotels">Glasgow</a> and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Malmaison+Edinburgh+Hotel/ian/113575">Edinburgh</a> but you wont be stuck for things to do in either of those places. Split seven nights either way (we suggest three in Edinburgh and four in Glasgow, for ease of reaching the Highlands in the day time), and for £500 per person, youll get one Brasserie meal at each hotel, a bottle