What do you get when you mix one of our favourite restaurants in the city with a beautiful new boutique hotel and top it all off with one of the best views in Edinburgh" Well you have a mach made in heaven of course, which is exactly what new Hotel Indigo on Princes Street has managed to achieve since it opened late last year and TLE went along recently to test out a room for the night.
If you read TLE you will know we love and highly recommend destination restaurant 20 Princes Street and Juniper bar, if you haven?t been it?s definitely work visiting. So we were delighted to hear about the opening of Hotel Indigo Princes Street which is a 64 bedroom boutique hotel that sits above 20 Princess Street restaurant and completes the multi-million pound refurbishment of what was the Royal British Hotel on Princes Street. The former Royal British Hotel was a Victorian property and large elements of this period are visible throughout the communal spaces and specifically in the restaurant which was originally the ballroom of the hotel. Move to the upper floors of the property and rooms have been given a soft contemporary finish (think Harris Tweet, cashmere, and pastel grays on the walls to reflect the local architecture). Fun little nods to the cities rich literary history are dotted throughout the property like room numbers embossed and engraved in genuine book leather, to the menu’s in the restaurant laid out in a novel format complete with plot, protagonist and ...