The Jury’s Inn Hotel is on Jeffrey Street in Edinburgh making it very close and handy for the Royal Mile and overlooking the Waverley railway station. Indeed the room I had recently fronted onto the street with the railway station below and I do have to say there was more noise from the road and from the trains than you would have wished to hear.
The hotel itself is part of the Irish owned Jury’s chain and the rooms are quite comfortable and above average in size. There is the usual supply of tea and coffee making stuff and toiletries in the bathroom. Whilst the normal rate may be £79 for a room I got mine for a £45 per night corporate single rate which for a hotel so close to the city centre offers good value.
The hotel restaurant is called Archers and offers a good menu and two courses of starter and main course will set you back about £13-£17 per person which is a tad below average for a similar hotel/location. I had a satisfactory smoked salmon starter followed by braised lamb which was quite good and not over cooked. Wines will set you back about a tenner a bottle so again not too extortionate.
Breakfast had a bit of a school canteen feel about it. It was self service of the most basic kind and you queued along a long servery. Food quality was good and everything was fresh but I could have done without the music which alternated between excessively cheery de-diddly-diddly Irish music and dreary Clannad type music.
As with many hotels the rooms were uncomfortably warm but opening the windows only increased the street/train noise so a few marks knocked off for that. There was also some decorating going being done on other floors and there was some paint smell about. However the overall décor in the hotel was smart and clean.
The reception staff were attentive and pleasant and generally I found the hotel a good value place to stop, shame about the noise though.
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Advantages: Reasonable prices, easy booking, very central Disadvantages: Expensive dial-up internet access, has the potential to be very noisy because of proximity to Waverley train station
Advantages: Reasonable prices, easy booking, very central Disadvantages: Expensive dial-up internet access, has the potential to be very noisy because of proximity to Waverley train station
Advantages: Super location, cheap drinks, on-site parking, high speed internet access in rooms, good food Disadvantages: Very large hotel, poor administration, charge for car-parking, room windows don't open
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