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Art Roch Hostel
OLD TOWN
2 West Port, Grassmarket
}0131 228 9981; www.artrochhostel.com
The new kid on the block, the Art Roch is already showing everybody else how it’s done. With cool, airy dorms featuring …
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Caledonian Backpackers
NEW TOWN
3 Queensferry St.
}0131 226 2939; www.caledonianbackpackers.com
By far the best budget option in New Town, and not just because it’s the only one, this 250-bed monster is comfortable a…
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The Hostel
HAYMARKET AND DALRY
3 Clifton Terr.
}0131 313 1031; www.edinburghcitycentrehostels.co.uk
Haymarket and Dalry’s hostel, “The Hostel” (this is going to get confusing, isn’t it?) is spotlessly clean. Having just …
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Argyle Backpackers
TOLLCROSS AND WEST END
14 Argyle Pl.
}0131 667 9991; www.argyle-backpackers.co.uk
Argyle is a great place for those who like to keep the party time outside and the cool, lounging-around time in the host…
Smart City Hostels
OLD TOWN
50 Blackfriars St.
}0131 524 1989; www.smartcityhostels.com
Smart City is clean, white, and efficient. Unfortunately, so is a hospital. Catering to families and those looking to “s…
Budget Backpackers
OLD TOWN
37-39 Cowgate St.
}0131 226 6351; www.budgetbackpackers.com
A surf-green hostel just a few drunken steps from the pub-filled Grassmarket, Budget Backpackers is a vibrant place that…
Edinburgh Backpackers
OLD TOWN
65 Cockburn St.
}0131 220 1717; www.hoppo.com
You’ll get those quads in shape hiking up and down the many dstairs of this tower. Dorms in EB are basic, but with new p…
Cowgate Hostel
OLD TOWN
96 Cowgate
}0131 226 2153; www.cowgatehostel.com
Apartment-style hosteling—now this is different. In this series of individual little flats, you’ll be bunking with a sma…
High Street Hostel
OLD TOWN
8-18 Blackfriars St.
}0131 557 3984; www.highstreethostel.com
With suits of armor sitting in the windows of the lobby and a spiraling staircase leading down to murals of paradise sce…
Castle Rock Hostel
OLD TOWN
15 Johnston Terr.
}0131 225 9666; www.castlerockedinburgh.com
Actually much closer to the castle than most of the hostels on the Royal Mile, the Castle Rock benefits from its locatio…
Ballantrae Hotel
NEW TOWN
8 York Pl.
}0131 478 4748
The first thing to greet anyone walking in the door of this hostel is the winding staircase, complete with decorated woo…
Frederick House Hotel
NEW TOWN
42 Frederick St.
}0131 226 1999; www.townhousehotels.co.uk
Classy Frederick House has the furniture and the long hallway to prove its status. With nicely furnished rooms (and some…
Osbourne Hotel
NEW TOWN
51-59 York Pl.
}0131 556 5577; www.osbournehotel.co.uk
An option that’s feasible in the off-season, the Osbourne Hotel offers bare but comfortable rooms in an older building i…
Queen’s Guesthouse
NEW TOWN
45 Queen St.
}0131 226 2000; www.queensgh.com
This place is wicked expensive, but if you win the lotto and can afford it for a night, it’s amazing. It’s the only lodg…
Elder York Guesthouse
NEW TOWN
38 Elder St.
}0131 556 1926; www.elderyork.co.uk
Providing relatively constant prices throughout the year, the Elder York Guesthouse benefits from three distinct things:…
Piries Hotel
HAYMARKET AND DALRY
4-8 Coates Garden
}0131 337 1108; www.pirieshotel.com
A nice, Georgian hotel located among a string of other similar ones, Piries has a small bar in the lobby and those paper…
Cruachan Guesthouse
TOLLCROSS AND WEST END
53 Gilmore Pl.
}0131 229 6219; www.cruachanguesthouse.co.uk
Another nice Guesthouse on Gilmore Place, the Cruachan has high-ceilinged, comfortable rooms. It may not be decorated wi…
Kingsview Guesthouse
TOLLCROSS AND WEST END
28 Gilmore Pl.
}0131 229 8004; www.kingsviewguesthouse.com
You can look for hummingbirds buzzing about the entryway garden as you eat breakfast in the front room of this quaint li…