Name: Ballantrae Albany Hotel
Address: Albany Street 39-43, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH1 3QY, United Kingdom
Rating: 7

24-hour reception

Smoke-free property

All Spaces Non-Smoking (public and private)

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St Paul's and St George's Church

Mansfield Place Church

Edinburgh Printmakers’ Workshop & Gallery

St James Quarter

Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Melville Monument

City Observatory

Church of St Andrew & St George

Edinburgh Visit Scotland Information Centre

Calton Hill

Bedlam Paintball

Scott Monument

Edinburgh Dungeon

Royal Scottish Academy Art Gallery

Princes Street Gardens

St. Giles' Cathedral

Museum on the Mound

National Gallery of Scotland

Camera Obscura and World of Illusions

Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre

Edinburgh Castle

National Museum of Scotland

Our Dynamic Earth

Palace of Holyroodhouse

Arthur's Seat

Royal Botanic Garden

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Holyrood Park

Royal Yacht Britannia

Edinburgh Zoo

Edinburgh Airport

Dundee Airport

Celtic Park

Glasgow Necropolis

Glasgow Cathedral

St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art

People's Palace and Winter Gardens

Glasgow Green

George Square

Buchanan Galleries

Gallery of Modern Art

Royal Concert Hall

Pavilion Theatre

Lighthouse

Centre for Contemporary Art

Botanic Gardens

Hunterian Museum

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Glasgow Science Centre

Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbour

Ballantrae Albany Hotel

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Booked a stay for three nights at the Ballantrae Albany over this past weekend and was very pleasantly surprised with the spacious room with the high ceilings. Very comfortable beds and quiet hotel which allowed for a peaceful night's sleep! Fantastic location and within walking distance of all the attractions in Edinburgh!

Little gem in Edinburgh!

This hotel is lovely. It is in a great location, right next to York Place tram stop; offering a spacious and affordable accommodation, polite staff and excellent facilities. I would recommend this hotel to anyone and we will be returning in the future. 


Amazing Hotel

Stayed here on a 3 night visit to Edinburgh. Room was nice, location of the hotel is very good, beds were very comfortable (slept like a baby!), selection of teas were available in the room, good sized flat screen tv, good shower pressure and room was very clean when we arrived. There was no daily housekeeping due to covid-19 measures (although this can be requested), internet is free but didn’t always get a good internet signal in the bedroom and there were two loose/broken floor tiles in the bathroom. I would consider staying here again in the future.

Conveniently located

The family room we occupied was superb and the bathroom really luxurious. Three full size single beds and a double all very comfortable with lovely pillows. Plenty of space around each bed and plenty of storage. Would have been an advantage to have a second mirror next to the television.
The bathroom had a wonderful freestanding bath, very large walk in shower, large sink and toilet, there were plenty of mirrors here.
The continental breakfast presented a good variety of cereals, fruits and yogurts. Good addition was the boiled eggs-thanks.
The location of this hotel is brilliant for the Playhouse and all the restaurants around there but also getting into St Andrew's Square with it's luxury shopping experiences was easy.
Hope to be back. 
The only reason not excellent was the disturbance from the room above ours at 12.30 am-such a shame and all of us were woken.

Spacious Family room

Stayed recently with a friend and whilst the hotel itself is very tired - threadbare carpets, lights that don't work, doors that don't lock, amongst other things - the staff were absolutely lovely.  Particularly one of the young Scottish man who worked on reception (I wish I knew his name!).  The hotel is in a handy location, a 20 min walk from all the sights and whilst we were on the ground floor right at the front of the hotel the street was very quiet.  
Looking back at the 'gallery' photos of the hotel, it looks incredibly different and I'm surprised at how grim our room was in comparison to the photos.  Would recommend if you're looking for a cheap stay and are not going to be in the room much.

Average hotel but lovely staff

Entered the building and st in reception for 10 minutes as it wasn't manned. A member of staff finally turned up and appeared disgruntled he had to deal with us, not even a hello. We were in room 203 right next to the main door, doors have to be locked manually from the inside as its a proper key to open them initially, not saying its a bad thing just unusual in 2020. While the room was fairly quiet being next to the front door I can imagine post COVID it would be a nightmare noise wise. Room was freezing, heating wasn't in overnight and it dropped to zero overnight. Room was clean and large to be fair, but the shower had a large amount of black mould, four star tho???
Parking outside needs to be paid mon to sat. I was a bit concerned about the camera across the road looking straight into the hotel, we kept the curtains drawn when we noticed!
OK to get your head down but not 4 star by any stretch.


Not a 4 star

Overall I was pretty pleased with this hotel, but I managed to get it for £44, presumably because they were struggling to find guests due to COVID. I have read other reviews of people who had paid around £140 for a room, presumably over the Fringe season, and I would have been quite upset if I had paid that much. 

I’ve seen plenty of people complaining that the rooms were too small but mine was the opposite—huge!—including a 9ftx4ft walk in wardrobe which I didn’t use at all as I was only staying one night. The rest of the room was full of furniture which seemed a little unnecessary and I would have preferred less of it. 

My room window overlooked an area which was incredibly quiet for a city and I didn’t have to put up with much bothersome street noise except for the occasional police siren. Similarly I didn’t experience much sound from other guests, probably due to that (a) I was on the top floor, so no footfall; (b) mine and the adjacent room was separated by the walk-in wardrobe; (c) I suspect it was not particularly busy given the circumstances. 

The bathroom was lovely—absolute high point of the room and what attracted me most from the hotel’s pictures on their website—although saying that it seemed quite shoddily constructed; one of the lightbulbs had blown and not been replaced and one of the wall tiles fell off when I walked past it. As others have commented the plumbing is incredibly noisy but I was lucky enough to not be woken up by this in the night.

What I really didn’t like about this hotel is that the whole building, but the top floor in particular on which my room was located, was incredibly hot. I really can’t fathom why; it was the peak of Scottish summer but only 22°C in the day and 17°C at night. It was incredibly stuffy and almost impossible to ventilate. After a big of a struggle I managed to open the windows, but in front of the windows were huge sheets of heavy perspex which I had to remove in order to get any air in. I assume this was to stop children and drunk simpletons falling out, but there were also bars over the window so it seemed a little unnecessary. The only way to get a through-draft while I slept was to prop open the fire door with a chair, which was really not ideal as a solo female traveller.

I’ve seen the hotel response to others complaining about the heat that it’s impossible to install central air conditioning because it’s a listed building, but there’s no reason they couldn’t have put in portable or mini-split AC units or at the every least some fans.

Were it not for the heat I would’ve been very happy with my stay and preferred it to a similarly priced budget hotel chain as it has a lot of character but I would definitely not recommend staying here when the prices are high.

Take your chances

I had originally intended staying in this Hotel for the Fringe Festival - the price was £556.20 for 2 nights. When the Festival was cancelled my partner I decided to come anyway - the price was £178.20  which was a massive difference. The location was excellent but I think the Hotel is definitely not 4* - our room was on the top floor. It was clean and had a lovely bath and a fridge in the room.  The plumbing needs sorting - really noisy when you flush chain in toilet. The breakfast was basic but ok (not 4* quality).  It suited us ok because we were only there for weekend and were out most of the time.

Great Location

This place may have been a nice boutique hotel years ago but now it is run an a budget, low quality place. My room was Ok, bit tired, but clean. 

Breakfast was in a gloomy, dirty basement and there is no cooked/hot food, just a completely Covid unsafe buffet.  Nothing fresh - the croissants are those mini vacuum packed ones that are rubbery and taste of plastic.  Orange juice was like battery acid.  Horrible.  

Premier Inn is same price and so much better.

Very disappointed and poor Covid measures.

DO NOT BOOK THIS HOTEL I booked through hotels.com. Unfortunately due to the pandemic my trip was cancelled .. I contacted February 2021 and said we would be there 15th October which they acknowledged . Contacted them just to make sure all was ok (thank goodness I did). I was told it was closed for refurbishment.. I have asked for a refund as I have had to pay considerably more and this has been refused ., I will be contacting trading standards !! Load of rubbish !!!

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