We got back in town from Edinburgh last night following the great vacation you helped greatly to plan and coordinate, thanks again for all your help. The Hotel Indigo on Princes street is a great hotel and ideal location for exploring Edinburgh. The hotel is a very old building with very new accommodations. The restaurant has a great breakfast - either a traditional continental buffet or order off the menu for many other choices. Because we included breakfast in our reservation we were able to eat off both sides of the menu as much or as little as we wanted. Overall the hotel and restaurant staffs were great. The National Gallery is down Princes Street and well worth the short walk…..and there is no entry fee. Both the Hop-On-Hop-Off bus tours and the main bus station, where the guided bus tours start, are located near St Andrews Square, which is a short walk from the Hotel Indigo - just around the corner and about 2 blocks away - another reason to stay at this particular hotel. The Hop-On-Hop-Off bus service is a great way to get around the city.
Hotel Indigo on Princes St is also directly across the street from Waverly Station, the main train station in Edinburgh. Our other guided tours were to be provided by Rabbi’s Tours. We highly recommend this company. They were prompt, friendly and the drivers were very knowledgeable. We opted for the Alnwick Castle and a separate highlands tour. The Alnwick castle tour was great - very well preserved castle (in fact the owning family lives there from October to April), but the tour only runs from April to October. The highland tour is very weather dependent  - our cancelled due to extreme rain storms causing road and bridge closures.  It was okay though because we filled the day with a walking tour of the city.