Hotel Du Vin Edinburgh

Every now and then a four-star earns its place on a shortlist by simply doing the basics very well, Hotel Du Vin Edinburgh, in Old Town, is one of those. Old Town is doing some of the heavy lifting here: it's barely a stroll from the centre of Edinburgh, and that proximity does change the trip. Expect well-appointed…

Every now and then a four-star earns its place on a shortlist by simply doing the basics very well, Hotel Du Vin Edinburgh, in Old Town, is one of those. Old Town is doing some of the heavy lifting here: it's barely a stroll from the centre of Edinburgh, and that proximity does change the trip. Expect well-appointed rooms with an in-house restaurant and reliable wi-fi, practical details that keep showing up in consistently flattering comfort feedback. Pull the review pages apart and you find well over 1,700 reviews, with a genuinely glowing consensus that's hard to engineer. Reputation has held up across enough stays to mean something. Expect to pay something in the region of €333 a night, a middle-of-the-road entry on the board, especially when stacked against nearby alternatives. The honest read on Hotel Du Vin Edinburgh is that it deserves a side-by-side look against the bigger Edinburgh names rather than a headline of its own.