Edinburgh is a world class, award-winning destination, perfect to visit, live and work in year-round
Enjoy being part of residential Edinburgh:
Choose from high quality, superbly located self-catering apartments or a luxury B&B, that’s a ‘home from home’ on Great King Street
Perfect for a city break
Explore on foot the compact, UNESCO designated, World Heritage site that is Edinburgh’s Medieval Old Town and splendid Georgian New Town.
Learn all about its’ extensive legal, literary, medical and scientific heritage; enjoy world-class events and festivals; visit the country’s top museums and galleries; shop till you drop in the variety of specialist retailers, independent shops and boutiques; discover the city’s green spaces such as Arthur’s Seat or the Royal Botanic Gardens and then end the perfect day with good food and drink in the city that has more restaurants per head than any other UK city.
Don’t just take our word for it, the inspiring capital has won more than 13 Best City and Short Break awards over the past nine years including the Guardian / Observer Reader Travel award for nine years running, The Telegraph Readers Best UK City 2005 and Conde Nast Traveller Awards Best UK City 2004.
Perfect to use as a base to travel from:
All within an hours’ drive, are the cities of Glasgow Stirling, Perth and St Andrews; the beautiful landscapes of Loch Lomond and the Trossach’s National Park; rural Perthshire and the fishing villages of Fife; or head south to the Scottish Borders, land of ancient abbeys, castles and historic houses long associated with Sir Walter Scott and the home of Rugby Sevens.
Perfect for the start or end of a longer trip:
Use it as a stepping stone, for your journey north to the Highlands and Islands with their spectacular, un-spoilt mountains, lochs and beaches. Take the opportunity to play a round of golf, bag a Munro or give yourself an adrenaline-rush, abseiling, canyoning, kayaking or mountain biking in superb surroundings. Then slow it down a gear by exploring more of Scotland’s cultural heritage by tracing your ancestral history or sample some whisky in one of the many fine distilleries
