The Scholar Reviews

The room was super spacious, and the heater kept it really warm. If you're up for a walk, you can easily explore all of Edinburgh on foot from here, and there's a bus stop right outside. The toiletries smelled amazing! Full marks, highly recommend!

It’s a very beautiful experience in the scholar, located in the university of Edinburgh. The room is clean and quiet. The view behind the hotel is so peaceful and it’s very convenient for visitors to go on a hiking.

The hotel isn't far from Edinburgh Castle, about 5 bus stops away or an 8-pound Uber ride. The environment is really good. It seems to be a hotel associated with an exchange center at the University of Edinburgh, consisting of several three or four-story buildings. My room was in an older building next door, which had premium rooms. The room size was moderate, very clean and tidy, and the shower was comparable to a star-rated hotel in China. Facilities were complete, including a coffee machine. What's particularly worth recommending is the breakfast; it's à la carte! You can choose from classic Scottish breakfast haggis sets, vegetarian haggis sets, and more. It's genuinely excellent; I almost wanted to extend my stay for a couple more days just to try everything, haha.

The hotel is in a quiet and ideal location! Only 15 mins to the main city centre by bus, with bus stop being opposite the hotel. The staff were super friendly and accommodating, and made the stay comfortable. Unfortunately the hotel was under doing a renovation during the visit which meant some rooms and the hallway walls weren’t clean but I’m sure once the renovation gets done a it will a a clean hotel. Safe area away from the busy city centre. Recommend for solo and couple stays.

Clean, reasonable price, easy access to the city centre

This hotel is right on the University of Edinburgh campus, which is fantastic and offers great value for money. The breakfast at the restaurant is also excellent.

It looks like student accommodation from the outside however the Scholar Hotel has been refurbished and the interior is beautiful. Our room was clean with very comfortable beds.  The staff were friendly and efficient.  It is not in the centre of Edinburgh but was convenient for an interview at The Usher building which was a 10 minute drive away.  We would stay again.

Excellent

Second stay in a week, excellent. Wouldn’t go anywhere else in Edinburgh!

The hotel is conveniently located next to a bus stop where we could take the bus from and to the city centre. We tried to walk from the city centre to the hotel once and realised that the route wasn’t very flat - not the most walkable. The room we stayed in was very clean, with sufficient essentials provided. The staff were nice and friendly.

Was a really nice stay, staff are very friendly and helpful, room was also spotless

Excellent stay and warm welcome by the reception. Excellent location to restaurant and grocery shops.

First of all we were moved from the Scholar to the Scott , it is an old traditional building which we thought was apt being in Edinburgh everything was brilliant from the room to the breakfast and the whole experience not cheap but you get what you pay for great weekend.

Very nice surrounding Extremely helpful staff