Best Western Edinburgh Capital Hotel - Reviews - Edinburgh

Our stay at the Best Western Edinburgh Capital Hotel was relaxing and enjoyable. This hotel is not in the city center it is a few miles outside of the city in the Corstorphine area of the city. The Edinburgh Zoo is nearby (though we did not go, we go to the San Diego Zoo all the time and we just were not interested). Once again the main draw for this hotel was a swimming pool. The pool is part of a sports club that is attatched to the hotel. Hotel guest have use of the pool.  The only draw back was the pool closed with sports club (which as a bit early in our opinion). The pool is an inside pool, and depending on the activity level, could get pretty noisey. There was an glassed in area near the staff desk where I could keep an eye on my little monsters, and not have to put up with the noise.

The hotel staff was pleasant and helpful. There is wireless internet access, but it did not work for most of my stay. The hotel must contract this to an outside vendor, as none of the staff were able to assist in difficulties in connecting (later found out the service was down, it was not my usually brillant tech skills).

The room was nice sized. I thought we were getting 2 queen size beds, but we ended up with a queen, a double and a futon type mattress on the floor. My youngest son liked the idea of the futon so we each had our own bed (and yes dad took the queen, it is good to be king!).

I still had the car I had rented for our trip to the Inverness area, so the fact that the hotel was a bit out of the city center was not a problem. The hotel had onsite, free parking. Having the car was really a good thing. It allowed us more freedom in our explorations.