The Balmoral Hotel

Good
Traveller Type: review category business travellers
  : We had booked five rooms for one night at the Balmoral and had a delightful (but not extremely excellent) High Tea upon arrival in the pretty Palm Court. For dinner we choose the Brasserie and not the 7 course menu restaurant which nobody can take after two hours of a full Champagne High Tea. The quality of the food at the Brasserie was mediocre but what really put us off that we paid almost 1.000 British Pounds per room and the rooms were very small and not at all in the pleasant decor for that room category as on the booking site photographs. All rooms were basically small, not elegantly furnished and some rooms had a small window which one could only open for a little gap for fresh air, overlooking the dilapidated back facade of this Grand Hotel, undoubtedly the best and most historic hotel of Edinburgh. I have said at may Rocco Forte hotels but have to admit this one was a bit of a disappointment despite the very friendly and helpful staff. We called our rooms the chauffeur´s room and made a joke out of it and it was irrelevant for one night, but a disappointment.
  : The rooms were very small and not nicely furnished or decorated.