Piries Hotel - Edinburgh

Bar Had no beer, overpriced hotel, no clock in room, poor parking. PromPt wake uP call. Staff helpful. Room newly Redone.

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Pros: 10 min walk into town Cons: Walls a little thin

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This hotel is nice and clean, friendly staff. A little out of the way from downtown, but I would definattely stay there again

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I really liked this hotel! The staff were all very friendly and helpful! The room was small, but that is to be expected in a big city. It is a manageable walk to a lot of sites in the city. If you're not looking for a luxury hotel but still want something nice, this is a good place to stay!

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Horrible. We were booked for 4 nights. I was so dissatisfied that I booked another hotel for the next three nights and lost a night's cost. No elevator. No lobby to speak of. The distance to the high ceilings in the room was greater than the distance from wall to wall. Beds too soft. Bathroom without bath. Room dingy & cramped. Poor [female] hotel clerk […] had to lug our suitcases up 2 flights of stairs because she was the only one on duty. Too far to the main part of Edinburgh--it's a LONG LONG walk with little to see along the way. Few places to eat near the hotel. Booked Old Waverley Inn for the next 3 nights. Cost about the same; services, room & location MUCH MUCH better. VERY glad I changed. Read more

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very comfortable and clean

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The staff was helpful. The location was alright for what we needed. The rooms were small and cramped. The bathroom had a bad smell and the shower didn't drain very well. We ended up standing in water during our shower. My room was on the 2nd floor and we had to carry the bags up six flights of stairs.

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Affordable and comfortable, and easy location for visiting the old parts of the City.

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The Piries hotel's accomadations were very disapointing. The room was the same size as the bed a double, no towels, electrical outlets didnt work, cold showers, room was freezing, we asked for blankets but didnt get any! Very highly disapointed!

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on the website it says own personal bathroom whereas we shared a bathroom with 3 other rooms don't let the pictures fool u

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bed to soft but ok for a night. bar stools to high and hard. prefered cooked breakfast. staff very friendly and helpful. over all happy with our stay and we will come back again

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A pleasant hotel, good standard of accomodation and friendly staff

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The hotel has had a fairly recent make over and a despite the old building all facilities were in new condition. The bed was comfortable and the bathroom clean and modern, but the only down point is they installed a small extractor fan so steam didn't clear and bathroom smelt of damp. But this was just a small thing, with very helpful and friendly staff, […] easy to get to airport and city center. Read more

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Location was great a few minutes walk from Hay market train station , Hotel staff were very welcoming , room only rates were fantastic room was comfortable and cozy , one negative point was the bathroom, the shower was impossible to regulate the heat and cleanliness was not as it should have been.

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I travel to Edinburgh every month for work and this is the second time I have stayed at Piries - I will be staying their again in January. They gave me the same room as my last stay, it is nice being somewhere familar when travelling away from home a lot. Room very clean and the staff are always welling to help. Haymarket is decent location - easy links […] to trains for Glasgow too. Read more

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Other than having our car towed away from outside the hotel, which was no fault of the hotel's, having overrun the parking ticket by 30 minutes, the stay was most enjoyable

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room was lovely comfortable bed, staff were very polite, nice and helpful.

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A nice hotel, in a good location! Room is quite crowded, though clean and equipped. Shower was not comfortable (difficulty to adjust temperature and water came out in a very low flow).

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I would go back

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It's a 3 minute walk to Haymarket station. Very clean room and helpful staff

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We stayed in the Piries for a single night after being to a concert at Murrayfield Stadium. Overall the hotel was okay, the staff were okay, and that is basically it.....OK. The price we paid for a double room was way overpriced, especially as breakfast wasn't included. We were in the basement room which was a decent size but since the windows couldn't […] open it was a bit stuffy and foisty and obviously no views. The only thing the hotel had going for it is its location, being close to the Haymerket station and Murrayfield Stadium, although you could here the trains passing nearby regularly. If you just want somewhere to sleep and will spend most of the time out and about the hotel is fine, but don't expect too much from this place I'm afraid. Read more

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only stayed 1 night to watch a concert and would definately stay again. Room was small but very clean with shower room, hair dryer and tea and coffee facilities. Staff were very friendly and helpful. Overall experience was very good.

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Age profile should be considered when bookings are made. I. E. there is not a lift in the hotel (not noted in the advert). The food is of poor quaity even as a continental style breakfast. Not enough staff on duty at times, and over 50 steps up to the 2nd. floor. Not good for the elderly.

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The hotel was further away from shops and restaurants than we were led to believe. It was quite far. Everything else was just fine.

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receptionist is very good,very helpful, room was cleaned well but not good in supply toiletries no soap and shampoo to use for second day to stay. otherwise it was ok ,I still recommend for stay but no lift to go up you have to walk upstairs if you strong enough and not have heavy luggage it is alright.

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Very a accomidating family hotel which got us a portable cot to use. Not far from the city centre, with a bus line just around the corner!

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although the hotel was clean it was very basic. Not at all the picures on the website. We could barely walk around the perimeter of the bed as the room as was stuffy and small, no comfort at all

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It does what it says it will. Clean, nice, great location just steps from Haymarket rail, and easy to get to walking from Murrayfield.

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Comfortable, convienient and a good hotel to choose for either a city break or for a rugby match at Murrayfield, as it is half way between both and easliy walkable to both. However local transport is very good as on airlink route stop, Haymarket, and good local bus stops at end of road. Bit of road noise if at front of hotel but this is compensated […] for by very comfortable bed and you won't be awake too long! Good cafes, pubs and resturants near by. Would stay here myself again and would recommend to any one travelling to this beautiful city. Read more

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if you go in edinburg this hotel is very nice and cheaper! staff is very friendly and you can ask any information, hotel is clean and confortable but the room and the bed are very small. this hotel is in a great position, 15 minutes to walk to the new town and 10 minutes to walk to castle and the royal miles! if you rent a car the hotel haven't the […] car park but near ther is a hotel's car park for 8 pound for all the night (premier inn car park). restourants are far enough 20 minutes to walk.the old town is near 20 minutes to walk. The quarters is very quiet and very nice near there are the university and the museum and the queen palace. very very nice! Read more

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Having read the reviews after booking we nearly canceld, but thankfully we didnt. This is by far the cheapest hotel in edinburgh however its a little bit out of town and taxis are £8 each way so the extra cost can cancel out low cost, but there is a bus stop both ways at the end of the road day ticket is only £3.20, all buses that stop here go into […] town and number 26 brings you back also the buses are just as quick as the taxis due to bus lanes.the rooms a& bathroom are small but very clean and new. staff very friendly and helpful. Read more

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Clean, adequate, staff are friendly.

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My room was small but OK. The room service never cleaned my room proper, not at one day (toilet only cleaned cosmetically, dirty cups changed only at every second day, the bed was made as well superficial) . At the last day there wasn´t any kind of cleaning in my room. The most important faktor for me in a hotel is a clean room, especially the bathroom. […] So I am very sorry about it but I can´t offer an higher recommendation for this hotel. Das Zimmer an sich war klein, aber völlig OK. Leider hat der Zimmerservice das Zimmer an keinem Tag richtig gereinigt. Die tägliche Raumreinigung wurde generell nur oberflächlich durchgeführt. So wurde die Toilette nicht richtig gesäubert, das Bett nur oberflächlich gerade gezogen und die schmutzigen Teetassen nur alle zwei Tage gewechselt. Am letzten Tag vor der Abreise gab es dann gar keinen Zimmerservice mehr für mich. Für frische Handtücher musste ich dann an der Rezeption nachfragen. Diese wurden mir dann bis an die Zimmertür gebracht. Das Hotel hat sich dafür entschuldigt, aber die Tage davor war der Zimmerservice auch äußerst bescheiden. Das für mich wirklich wichtigste in einem Hotel sind saubere Zimmer. Daher kann ich leider keine bessere Bewertung abgeben. Read more

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The Hotel staff were very courteous and helpful throughout our stay with them, any reported faults with the room were dealt with promptly and although the continental breakfast was not included in the price and I personally did not partake it looked good and the restaurant lounge area's clean and tidy at all times, my room at the hotel was a little […] on the small side, with inadequate storage space for clothes etc. a couple of coat hangers on a rail and 3 small shelves were not really spacious enough, but saying that we only used the hotel for sleeping and showering etc. so room size was not an issue. the hotel is ideally sited for easy access to Edinburgh city centre, Haymarket railway station is no more than a few hundred yards from the hotel, the main road has plenty of bus routes up to Princes Street and beyond, plenty of pubs and restaurants within easy walking distance, all in all I would definately use this hotel again and would not hesitate to recomend it to others Read more

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Room was nice and the people friend only problen was we were given twin not a double as requested but we were upgraded and made do fine with the twin

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The first room we got which was the standard was extremely small, and there was some sort of fan that was working all night long so we actually had to ask for another room because we couldnt sleep with the noise. It was also very cold in the room. The new room we got was much better. But i dont understand how they can allow costumers to pay for the […] first one! The only positiv thing was that it was close to busstations that take you directly to the heart of Edinburgh and to the airport. Read more

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Me and my wife stayed at the Piries Hotel in Edinburgh the few nights before our wedding in the south of Scotland. Firstly, we had to check in late so by the time we found somewhere to eat and got back we just wanted to sleep. The bed was missing a wheel, so it was a terrible first night, with the bed being on an odd angle. The next morning we went […] to have a shower and it was one of those wall mounted electric heaters and it lasted all of 3 seconds (exactly) before it turned off again, making it impossible to have a shower as the temperature changed from boiling hot to freezing cold in an instant. We talked with reception and they agreed to change our room the next day as all the hotel was booked up, but it was also booked up for the next day so they changed our room and gave it to some other poor person staying there. The new room had a functioning shower and bed but that's not to say it was much more comfortable, and the cleanliness wasn't great either, there were balls of dust everywhere. Having to change room was an major inconvenience with all our clothes and it meant we had to change our plans for the day to wait until they were ready to have our things moved. For the whole disaster of us staying there they did throw in the breakfast for the last couple of days. Also note that breakfast normally is a large supplement for what it is and that internet is not included and if you want them to activate wifi it's an exorbitant charge and you're much better off paying for a pint or a coffee somewhere nearby and using the wifi there. All in all the stay was not good. The staff were quite helpful but the hotel itself is terrible. Luckily the next place we stayed more than made up for it Read more

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Bar downstairs went for ever, earplugs did not help much with the boom boom music.. location was ok. but it certainily isn't walking distance from train station we got off on. we walked but in pain there was another station closer by. I'm sure there were quieter rooms but not in our part of hotel. Staff were excellent, rooms great, guess we just hit […] party nite, no it was bachellorette party nite. Read more

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Beware, you'll be coerced into availing yourself of a few dried bits of bread and soggy corn flakes when you're told breakfast is included in your room rate and then be charged £6 at checkout for the privilege! Try and protest and you will be threateningly told by the reception staff to pay up or deal with the police! Not much idea of customer service! […] Add to that the paper thin walls and you can kiss goodbye to any sort of decent sleep due to the excessive noise from the rest of the hotel. Definitely not recomended! Read more

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Very good location, near the Royal Mile and all. Shared bathroom big and clean. A bit old but, ok. Neighborhood dirty but near train station so convenient. Personnel very helpful.

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Nice place. Would stay there again and recommend it to friends. Nice and close to Haymarket station and bus links. But also close enough to Princes street to walk.

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The staff is friendly and the hotel is clean. Unfortunately we got one of the small rooms in the basement but we were out and about all day anyway so this was not too bad. The rooms are clean and the bathroom is also clean and modern. The bed was too hard for my taste. The hotel is west of the city centre near Haymarket station on a relatively quiet […] side street. At Haymarket station there conveniently is a bus stop for the Airport bus and there are some pubs around on the way to the centre (Princes street) which is an acceptable 10 min walk. The price for the room was good, so all in all I can recommend the hotel and would come back again. Read more

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The room was nice, but nothing close to the the ones we seen on pictures. The bathroom had a nice shower. Overall, it is a nice hotel to stay at because it is fairly close to everything.

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