Hotels near Eskbank, Newbattle

This is the most fabulous place & setting for a couple of nights stay, sadly let down by staff & services. It doesn’t surprise me to see what others have reviewed. This place clearly has been & could be so much more. I’ve no doubt the pandemic has hit them hard & they are struggling to recruit enough of the correct staff. The positives: Lovely historic setting & ambience. On site Spa & Falconry. Lovely airy clean rooms. Food ok to good. Plenty of parking. Breakfast included. The negatives: Poor staffing & services. Some staff just try too hard with ‘Amazing’ & Fantastic’ in their vocabulary constantly. Probably to appease the American market. The Orangery restaurant is very poorly run. Staff do their best, albeit could work with a little more haste, they just can’t cope. Similar excuses about booked tables that are never taken! Staff are generally un-knowledgable about services & timings & things were always going wrong. We laughed most of it off & just called it Fawty Towers, what’s next? :) They could do so much more with the veranda, the bar & Orangery. Bare in mind you are out in the country & taxis can be limited & costly. To summarise - we would stay again for the right price, probably out of the Festival season. Keep doing your best guys & gals but owners beware, you need to manage this place so much better

Stayed her for three nights October 2022 with the Scotland Rugby League team prior to the Rugby League World Cup. What a great find this hotel was. Spotlessly clean and so very comfortable. Bedrooms roomy and the beds as comfortable as you can get. The food was excellent, and they catered for our every need. The breakfasts were amazing and the service was beyond reproach . Special shout out to our servers Chez, Shannon and the boss Karen. Could not have been better. A massive thank you and a great start to our World Rugby League Cup campaign . Defo use this hotel again.

Very positive experience. Check in was smooth, location was excellent, supermarket right downstairs, near to touristy spots, room was comfy size and decent. However floor doesn't seem to be cleaned up on every housekeeping session.

Located in Musselburgh, Arden House is in the suburbs, within a 15-minute drive of Dalkeith Country Park and Palace of Holyroodhouse. This golf guesthouse is 7.2 mi (11.5 km) from Princes Street Gardens and 7.3 mi (11.7 km) from Royal Yacht Britannia.This smoke-free guesthouse offers complimentary parking nearby.Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available daily from 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM for a fee.Featured amenities include luggage storage, microwave in a common area, and refrigerator in a common area. Free self parking is available onsite.Stay in one of 4 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms with separate bathtubs and showers feature deep soaking bathtubs and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include coffee/tea makers and free tea bags/instant coffee, and housekeeping is provided daily.

A lovely hotel with great service. Was there over the Christmas holidays, the hotel staff was kind to tell us possible restaurants that are open during that time. The room was clean and spacious. The location was near several supermarkets and restaurants. It was nearer to the castle area but it is quite a nice walk to the main shopping area and Scott monument.

had a fantastic stay here! there were 10 of us who all booked out a dorm. was quiet, clean and good quality. there are two bathrooms and two toilets per dorm which i thought was very good. our room wasn’t ready for an extra half an hour so they gave us free drink tokens for the bar! the reason this doesn’t get 5 stars is because it was awfully hot in the room - even with the window open! there didn’t seem to be air con - we wondered even if the hostel had put the heating on? we didn’t try the breakfast. the hotel bar had decent food but long waits.

I had the separate house in the back and it was lovely, with a garden room downstairs. I picked the location so I could walk to Craigmillar Castle ruins. It was further than I thought, but worth it. The Park is lovely, and the B&B was very clean and nicely appointed. I would definitely return. Only think with all these lovely old B&B's, to consider is stairs, and you might be on your own with the luggage.

The hotel itself was very nice, full of character. The room was clean and tidy and well maintained. The biggest issue was the staff training, though all were very pleasant they did not really have a clue how to run a bar or a restaurant service, probably not their fault, that's a management issue. I appreciate it may still be difficult to recruit experienced staff post COVID but that's no excuse for putting staff on the floor that can't perform their duties to a suitable standard for the paying guest. Breakfast was a bit of a shambles too, no breakfast plates were out, just small side plate, this was rectified but many people had very small breakfast plates to begin with, worse though was the fact the cooked offerings were cold, with the exception of the eggs, imagine cold baked beans on your plate. This really was poor, it is after all Bed & Breakfast, those two things should be perfect. The dinner offering was good and we enjoyed our dinner, but there should be someone in the restaurant when it opens to welcome guests, the guest should not be expected to go and search for a staff member. It would not take much to turn this hotel into a very good hotel once the senior management team step up and take control of the staffing issues and give the breakfast staff some training . All in all a rather disappointing stay that will make us look elsewhere when we return to Scotland.

Very friendly staff! The front staff who welcomed us on the day we checked in was extremely friendly and helpful, as was another staff who helped us in the evening to change to another room (the original room had a connecting door to the room next door where some people were having a rather lively party). At present, breakfast is brought to the room (see picture) and guests can select what they would like to have the day before. What we didn't enjoy too much while staying was that the hotel itself felt more like an office building and the room, although clean (apart from the cutlery in the kitchen), was not very cozy and quite cold. We would also like to suggest to allow guests to use the fire stairs as there is only one elevator. We had to wait quite a bit each time we needed to take the elevator (especially during covid times when only one household a time can use it). There's a rather big construction site next door so people who hope to sleep till late might want to ask for a room thats facing the other side.

This weekend we spent a couple of days in Edinburgh and used this location courtesy of our daughter and her partner. The location is ideal for moving around Edinburgh and enjoying the various sites etc. The room was in good order, however the cleaners had not checked the pull down bed which was disgusting however, this was quickly rectified and we got offered a free breakfast as compensation. Point to note, don't think the room you have booked has the ideal views as shown on the web-site as we were on the third floor looking on to an internal roof! Breakfast was ok, staff were attentive and although they got our order completely wrong it was again quickly rectified. Worth a stay, however can be pricey for what it is!