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Macdonald Holyrood Hotel

Top Family Hotel

81 Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AU, United Kingdom

+44 131 550 4500

$93+

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Overall guest ratings

8.6/10 Excellent

Based on 2418 reviews

Review highlights

Service

9.2
Location

9.1
Value for money

4.5
WiFi

2.0

Good to know

Comfortable beds
Professional service
Friendly service

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About

Macdonald Holyrood Hotel puts you in a great location, within just a 10-minute walk of Our Dynamic Earth and Arthur's Seat. Guests can visit the spa to indulge in deep-tissue massages, body wraps, or body scrubs, and local cuisine is served at Acanthus, which is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. There's an indoor pool and a bar/lounge, and rooms at this upscale hotel offer 24-hour room service and slippers.

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Amenities

Parking
Fitness center
Facilities for Disabled Guests
Wi-Fi
Concierge service
Laundry service
Meeting/Banquet facilities
Room service
Spa
Indoor pool
No smoking
Restaurant
Bar/Lounge
Express check out
Air-conditioned
24 Hour Front Desk
Safe
Sauna
Storage available
Currency exchange on-site
Child pool
Cable or satellite TV
Terrace/Patio
Laundry facilities
Free Internet
Pets not allowed
Wedding services

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Families

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Overall Rating

8.6 Excellent

Based on 2,380 reviews

Service

9.2

Location

9.1

Pool

8.6

Wellness Area

8.5

Room

7.0

Breakfast

6.7

Value for money

4.5

WiFi

2.0

Overall Rating

8.6 Excellent

Based on 1,832 reviews

Service

9.3

Location

9.2

Pool

8.4

Wellness Area

8.2

Room

7.0

Breakfast

6.9

Value for money

4.5

WiFi

2.0

Overall Rating

8.8 Excellent

Based on 309 reviews

Location

9.1

Service

9.0

Pool

8.8

Wellness Area

8.7

Room

6.9

Breakfast

6.7

Value for money

4.5

WiFi

2.3

Overall Rating

8.6 Excellent

Based on 214 reviews

Service

9.3

Location

8.9

Wellness Area

8.5

Comfort

8.3

Bar and Beverages

7.1

Room

6.4

Breakfast

6.2

Value for money

4.4

WiFi

2.0

Overall Rating

8.1 Excellent

Based on 23 reviews

Service

9.2

Location

9.2

Food

7.2

Room

7.0

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8.3

Pros: Good sized room with excellent facilities. Close to Holyrood Palace and Arthurs seat if you wanted the walk! Quiet area with no major roadworks which is a bonus in Europe at the moment.

Cons: Nothing

Reviewed Jul 2017

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10.0

Pros: Perfect hotel with excellent staff.. Looking forward to returning

Reviewed Jul 2017

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8.3

Pros: Breakfast was really good and the Bar was a good place to chill out.

Cons: In room entertainment - could do with movie channels etc.

Reviewed Jul 2017

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9.2

Pros: Big room, Very comfy bed. Excellent service but little atmosphere.

Cons: The weather! Ambiance in the restaurant. Bland street environment. Basically it was boring!! Asked for a pint of Guinness but was served something else. It wasn't a particularly Scottish ...

Reviewed Jul 2017

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10.0

Pros: Location /staff /cleanliness.

Cons: No fridge in the room

Reviewed Jul 2017

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9.6

Pros: Great spa, great location, very quiet for centre of the city. Very good breakfast. room was beautifully decorated, very clean and very comfy.

Cons: No complaints!

Reviewed Jul 2017

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9.6

Pros: Staff -so friendly and helpful.

Cons: Elevator cards did not work properly. It s annoying early in day or late in the evening to go and ask to the reception. Breakfast could be better. Almost no healthy vegan and vegetarian option. One ...

Reviewed Jul 2017

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7.1

Pros: The staff who were available tried hard to please.

Cons: The property appeared to be understaffed at times, and at other times they were standing around doing nothing!

Reviewed Jul 2017

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9.2

Pros: Room service, pool and staff great! Good location. Nice room.

Cons: Breakfast cold, ordered prosecco bottle to room sent a cheap nasty 5.99 bottle and charged £30 for it. Bit over the top mark up price...could have provided more toiletries only 2 tiny soap.

Reviewed Jul 2017

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9.6

Pros: The bedroom was luxurious. Bed and pillows very comfortable- had a great nights sleep. Staff friendly professional and helpful. Ideally placed for Holyroid Palace.

Cons: N/a

Reviewed Jul 2017

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10.0

Pros: Great hotel all around-beautiful pool, great amenities, very clean, great location and conciere service

Cons: nothing

Reviewed Sep 2015

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2.0

Pros: Location

Cons: Terrible hot/cold shower . Shower from hell.No way to cool room other then little bit of window you could get open and fan you have no place to plug in so it has to sit on floor.We would never stay there again. Very over priced.

Reviewed Sep 2015

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10.0

Pros: Perfect hotel with excellent staff.. Looking forward to returning

Reviewed Jul 2017

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9.2

Pros: Big room, Very comfy bed. Excellent service but little atmosphere.

Cons: The weather! Ambiance in the restaurant. Bland street environment. Basically it was boring!! Asked for a pint of Guinness but was served something else. It wasn't a particularly Scottish ...

Reviewed Jul 2017

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10.0

Pros: Location /staff /cleanliness.

Cons: No fridge in the room

Reviewed Jul 2017

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9.6

Pros: Great spa, great location, very quiet for centre of the city. Very good breakfast. room was beautifully decorated, very clean and very comfy.

Cons: No complaints!

Reviewed Jul 2017

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9.6

Pros: Staff -so friendly and helpful.

Cons: Elevator cards did not work properly. It s annoying early in day or late in the evening to go and ask to the reception. Breakfast could be better. Almost no healthy vegan and vegetarian option. One ...

Reviewed Jul 2017

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9.2

Pros: Room service, pool and staff great! Good location. Nice room.

Cons: Breakfast cold, ordered prosecco bottle to room sent a cheap nasty 5.99 bottle and charged £30 for it. Bit over the top mark up price...could have provided more toiletries only 2 tiny soap.

Reviewed Jul 2017

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9.6

Pros: The bedroom was luxurious. Bed and pillows very comfortable- had a great nights sleep. Staff friendly professional and helpful. Ideally placed for Holyroid Palace.

Cons: N/a

Reviewed Jul 2017

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10.0

Pros: Great hotel all around-beautiful pool, great amenities, very clean, great location and conciere service

Cons: nothing

Reviewed Sep 2015

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8.3

Pros: Good sized room with excellent facilities. Close to Holyrood Palace and Arthurs seat if you wanted the walk! Quiet area with no major roadworks which is a bonus in Europe at the moment.

Cons: Nothing

Reviewed Jul 2017

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8.3

Pros: Breakfast was really good and the Bar was a good place to chill out.

Cons: In room entertainment - could do with movie channels etc.

Reviewed Jul 2017

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7.1

Pros: The staff who were available tried hard to please.

Cons: The property appeared to be understaffed at times, and at other times they were standing around doing nothing!

Reviewed Jul 2017

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2.0

Pros: Location

Cons: Terrible hot/cold shower . Shower from hell.No way to cool room other then little bit of window you could get open and fan you have no place to plug in so it has to sit on floor.We would never stay there again. Very over priced.

Reviewed Sep 2015

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