I’ve loved the funky places we’ve stayed. The 25 Hours in Berlin and Vienna, the citizenM in Glasgow and the Artist’s Residence in Brighton all have character and a design aesthetic which dares to be different, and they all follow it up with a solid experience. It’s almost come to[…]
Glasgow! Edinburgh’s less refined older brother. Slightly larger, less history and an economy based more on manufacturing, we spent some time in Scotland’s largest city checking out some of the sights. First time My first time in Glasgow was actually back in 2011. I’d just got off the train from[…]
What do you do with your lounge area during the day? Hotels have long been trying to figure out how to maximise use of their communal spaces during the day between check out and check in times. The citizenM brand have a novel approach – they’ve branched out into communal[…]
We’d been bouncing around the hotels near Edinburgh’s Haymarket Station while we tried to find a place to live in Edinburgh, and one of the hotels which frequently had the cheapest rooms was the Haymarket Hub. We’d been tempted each time and eventually our resolve broke down and so we[…]
You ever have one of those moments that you know hotel staff will talk about with their coworkers afterwards and you just know they’ll shake their head with a rueful smile while telling the story? Yeah. We had one of those at the Staycity Aparthotels. Basically what happened was that[…]
It’s too early to check in to Native Glasgow but we try anyways, rocking up to an admittedly ornate door in the middle of downtown Glasgow in the aftermath of a deluge. We’d trained across from Edinburgh so had missed it and the proximity to the station made us appreciate[…]
The second you ring or talk to anyone at reception at the Fountain Court Apartments in Fountain Court, Edinburgh, they ask the same question: Where are you staying? I slowly, thinking that this was a trap, venture that I would be staying at the Fountain Court Apartments. There was no[…]
What can you do for free in Edinburgh? Well if you can get to Cramond on the coast, then a walk out to Cramond Island and then on to Lauriston Castle isn’t a bad way to spend a morning. I’d first seen Cramond Island from the seat of an British[…]
I’m standing exposed on a hill in the north of England, the wind blowing rain and hail onto me and the only protection is my puffer jacket and a scarf which I’ve tied around my head so I look like a demented washer-woman. I turn to Ange and observe that[…]
The grand old lady with views up the Princes Gardens to the Castle has always caught my eye. Whenever I get off the tram from the airport and head to wherever I’m going in Edinburgh I pass the doorman manning the door at the Rocco Forte owned hotel and wonder[…]